Housekeeping

I’ve been making a few changes around here! This blog has existed in one form or another for a very long time – since September 2004 in fact. It’s a bit of a hotch-potch of content, because as well as…

Local authorities that blog

This is a living list post where I am keeping a note of all the active blogs run by local authorities. If you have any to suggest that I don’t have listed, please let me know!

Rebooting working out loud

I’m three months into my new job and that seems a good time to reflect on how things are going. I’ll save the meat of that for another post, because this one is about how I am working within my…

[RL] Starting the ‘Reading List’

Finding time to blog is tough, and while I enjoy putting together the Five for Friday posts, you may have noticed that even doing those is tricky. To get myself back into the habit of regularly posting, I’m going to…

Five for Friday (7/7/17)

It’s another Friday, so here are five links (and associated background reading!) that I have found interesting in the last week. Before we dig into that, a personal note. I’m shortly to leave my current employer, and whilst my next…

Publishing stuff

One of the things I love about the internet most is the fact that it puts the power to publish into the hands of pretty much anybody. There are many ways of doing it these days, whether by using a…

Eleven years a blogger

According to the archive on this site, I’ve been writing this blog for eleven years today – since September 2004. This is the 2,646th post and there have been 4,263 comments on them over the years. Lots has changed in…

Why writing helps

One of the things that I love about being a blogger is the encouragement it gives me to write. Writing helps. It’s fair to say, I think, that if you want to get good at something, then writing about it…

Blog academy

I’m running a day long workshop in London on the topic of blogging – might you be interested? Here’s the skinny: Join Dave Briggs for a day’s practical, hands-on workshop learning how to be a better blogger! There are only…

A few changes in these parts

Since work is now WorkSmart and I am retiring Kind of Digital as a professional thing, I thought it was time to sort out my blog. After all, kindofdigital.com was once davepress.net and before that many incarnations over the years…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: ongoing by Tim Bray · Software in 2014 Joho the Blog » What blogging was – *sniff* Is Local GDS a good idea? « @demsoc Let’s Replace Council Websites with Local.Gov.Uk…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Don’t drown in email! How to use Gmail more efficiently twister : peer to peer microblogging platform (interesting from privacy/decentralisation angle) Why blogging still matters in business – and always will…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Will the Bill and Mary show have a happy ending? [good stuff on high streets] The web giants pumping us for information – by @jjn1 Filling an empty shop with photos…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Lockdown – Marco.org (thoughts on RSS etc) Doug Engelbart, visionary David Wilcox » Realising the knowledge assets of research for the rest of us – how about a set of recipe…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Little J Beta – via @willperrin The limits of collaborative consumption: Would people really share their belongings? Blogging – why do it? | Amandacomms’s Blog Raspberry Pi: Baking Pi – Operating…