First day in my new job over. Am enjoying the feeling of getting to know my new surroundings, and using that new job motivation to start various balls rolling. Jukesie on ‘minimum viable unconference’ “Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied…

Our daughter Jade has launched a podcast with her friend at work. We are super proud of her, and you should definitely check it out and subscribe if you’re interested in what’s up with social media these days I…

Mark O’Neill on AI  I sent out an email newsletter yesterday, just containing some of the links I have been sharing in these notes recently. I’m nopt altogether happy using TinyLetter for it, but not sure I can really justify…

I’m trying a tweak to the way I write these notes, in that I have switched from using Obsidian to Simplenote. Main reason for this is that Simplenote has apps across Windows, MacOS and iOS and syncs across them all…

Teignbridge Council are looking for a Head of Digital https://jobs.teignbridge.gov.uk/itlivetdc_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=9431212Ag3&WVID=4966600DE4&LANG=USA There’s a QR code scanner app built into iOS?! Not That Kind of Open: Essex County Council hosted "a generative AI Hackathon" Am really enjoying the Tech…

“Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?” On similar lines: “Bluesky Has Problems” I suspect Twitter will sort itself out before any of these others things manage to take off. This seems interesting: (Background: )

Happy Bloomsday! A fairly sensible take on AI stuff from dxw Can’t work out if this is a good idea or not "Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts,…

"Strive for alignment rather than aiming for universal agreement" "Multi-Cloud, Still an Actual Thing after All These Years" "Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy" (Those last two both via Coté ) Am enjoying Spellcaster, a podcast…

"Some blogging myths" I published a thing on LinkedIn about why councils (etc) should take digital culture and skills seriously, if they want their transformation projects to succeed: "The next phase of technology-driven transformation is data. Are you…

Busy couple of days, hence no notes until today. "Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge" via Coté. "Inside Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon" Emily Webber has published The Team…