Dave Briggs

Busy couple of days, hence no notes until today.

"Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge" https://www.are.na/ via Coté.

"Inside Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon" https://www.fastcompany.com/90901113/inside-snopes-the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-an-internet-icon

Emily Webber has published The Team Onion Book, which describes "a model to keep teams small, break down silos and create shared responsibility across team boundaries" https://teamonion.works/buy-the-book/

"Is web3 bullshit?" (yep) https://blog.mollywhite.net/is-web3-bullshit/

I love markdown but using it for presentations might be pushing it a bit https://ia.net/presenter

"Why did Usenet fail?" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/why-did-usenet-fail/

Log into twitter. Ooh! Notifications. 5 tweets in a row from someone called Elon Musk who I don’t follow. Log out again.

…and on that note, "Twitter Briefly Pretended To Take A Stand Against Hate, But Then Elon Admitted It Was All A Mistake (Or A Marketing Campaign?)" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/02/twitter-briefly-took-a-stand-against-hate-but-then-elon-admitted-it-was-all-a-mistake/

A pleasant walk along the drain at lunchtime. Merlin enjoyed having a swim and a sprint.

“Redbridge Council launches digital housing repairs service” https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/redbridge-council-launches-digital-housing-repairs-service/

I spend most of my working day using a Windows all-in-one desktop thing, and less time on a Macbook. I use way more web based stuff in Windows, and way more native apps on the Mac.

https://12ft.io/ is a service that makes me nervous, as stealing is always wrong. However it’s also tempting. What solves this ethical conundrum for me is that it hasn’t ever worked when I have tried it.

To quote my favourite tech philosopher, Taylor Swift, I think I’ve seen this film before and I didn’t like the ending: “DWP, Home Office, MoJ and Defra launch £1bn tender for shared services tech providers”

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” James Joyce, Ulysses.

2 cracking posts from dxw on what service designers get up to during the beta phase of a project https://www.dxw.com/2023/05/what-do-service-designers-do-in-the-beta-phase-of-a-project-part-1/ (there’s a link at the bottom to part 2)

Videos from the 2022 Service Design in Gov conference: https://govservicedesign.net/videos

Fab stuff from Polly Thompson on helping "colleagues (who aren’t interested in tech) understand the health of an IT estate" https://medium.com/valleys-to-coast-design-tech-blog/the-state-were-in-c7549cb03938

Quite enjoying The Color of Nothing by ford. https://fordsounds.bandcamp.com/album/the-color-of-nothing

Have been a John Naughton fan for a loooooong time and his blog has been following a kind of daily note / commonplace book type approach for a while now. His follows a kind of structure I would find it impossible to stick to. https://memex.naughtons.org/

And one of John’s posts pointed me to "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Thomas Pettitt on parallels between the pre-print era and our own Internet age" https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/the-gutenberg-parenthesis-thomas-pettitt-on-parallels-between-the-pre-print-era-and-our-own-internet-age/

Cote gives his take on my blogging formats post from yesterday https://cote.io/2023/05/31/193136.html

Another good In Our Time, this time on the Dead Sea Scrolls https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ljc0

Am going to try this note without bullets, just to see how that goes. Feedback welcome!

I’ve deleted all the social media apps from my phone as an experiment.

Cote has done a daynote: https://cote.io/2023/05/30/day-note.html

“We Need to Rethink ‘Digital’ in Most Public Services” – I am really not sure what this article is suggesting? Rethink from what, to what? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-need-rethink-digital-most-public-services/

I’ve just discovered (🤦) the ‘advanced’ view in Mastodon, which is more Tweetdeck like with columns. Makes things a bit easier. Wondering if I should start paying some money towards Mastodon too https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

“Lisa’s Final Act: how Apple invented its future by burying its past” https://www.theverge.com/23724804/lisa-computer-apple-steve-jobs-burial-utah-sun-remarketing-documentary

In Our Time about Walt Whitman https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l99w

I randomly wondered earlier what Marissa Mayer is doing these days. Turns out she’s running a startup trying to fix phone contacts, which is a worthy endeavour if not, if I am honest, a lucrative-sounding one https://sunshine.com/