An online notebook
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: How can local authorities achieve smart cities? Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Androids Designed Around People stop talking about jobs How to delete your digital life How to delete your digital life Online Courses or Long Form Journalism? Communicating How the World Works… … Keep reading
Well worth listening or watching this talk from Dan Gillmor: Once, personal technology and the Internet meant that we didn’t need permission to compute, communicate and innovate. Now, governments and tech companies are systematically restricting our liberties, and creating an online surveillance state. In many cases, however, we’re letting it happen, by trading freedom for … Keep reading
Do you need a digital engagement strategy to get it right? Perhaps you don’t, but it can’t not help, surely. Start with a vision. What do we want to achieve? Where do we want to end up? Pick an arbitrary date in the future – say 2015 – and imagine how you’d like things to … Keep reading
Ryan Holiday writes in Our Regressive Web: We’re regressing because we’re so focused on the new that we forgot the importance of the old. The tech press is too busy chattering about other “innovations” like retargeting, paywalls, native advertising. Except those changes are at the margins—at best. And because of that distraction or lack of understanding of the bigger … Keep reading
These days, I write pretty much everything in plain text. This is driven by two main things: Annoyance Paranoia How I write pretty much anything of any length (blog posts, reports, proposals, longer emails) is to write them in a text editor – I’ve settled on WriteRoom – using the Markdown markup language. I then … Keep reading