An online notebook
Decision making at the right level with Hats, Haircuts and Tattoos by Emily Webber:
What I like about these definitions is that they provide a framework for considering a decision, while also allowing for the differences and nuances of the situation and the experience of the people making them.
Avoiding the hidden costs of leadership debt – Oli Lovell, Public Digital:
Technical debt is well recognised. But the same logic of ever-shifting organisational needs – and therefore the debt accrued by standing still – applies to leadership too. As a leader, your skills, models and culture operate as a system of their own, determining how well your organisation is able to adapt and respond to change.
Really Simple Licensing – “The open content licensing standard for the AI-first Internet”.
RSL is an open standard that lets publishers define machine-readable licensing terms for their content, including attribution, pay per crawl, and pay per inference compensation.
Dave Winer, It’s really simple:
FeedLand is the perfect back-end for a twitter-like system, for the feeds part. And for the words, the perfect back-end is WordPress. I only discovered that about 1.5 years ago. And I had to see what it looks like. No more tiny little text boxes, it’s a real editor that supports all the features of the web. How do I know? Because it saves its data in Markdown. That has come to be the defining format for the text-based web. One which has been totally ignored by the twitter-like systems. How could they miss that? Markdown is like MP3. If you’re mixing sound into feeds you use MP3 of course. It’s there for you to use. As was Markdown. If you’re mixing text you’re mixing Markdown.
Key learnings from GOV.UK One Login discovery research for local government:
Key themes emerging from the research include:
- cost savings are essential – councils told us this would be critical to secure leadership buy-in
- identity verification is a USP – councils value secure verification and the potential to share credentials across local and central government
- suppliers are open to integration – many are already using, or moving towards, OpenID Connect (OIDC) compatibility
- forward thinking but stretched – councils want to future-proof systems, but limited resources, capability, and competing priorities are barriers
- user adoption risks – concerns about digital exclusion, resident trust, and the transitioning of users to a new system