Daily note for 18 September 2023
If I had one bit of advice for ‘IT’ people it would be to stop referring to “the business”. It’s just so WEIRD. I newslettered again. Laura Hilliger, Doug Belshaw and Matt Jukes all on the same podcast? š Thisā¦
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Tag content
LINK: “Silicon Valley Can’t Be Trusted With Our History”
We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it. Original:
Five for Friday (19/5/17)
Five more nuggets of interest I’ve spotted this week: Jessica Lessin built a business to prove information doesnāt have to be freeĀ – great podcast about the different models emerging for journalism online. The Information is a great site, by theā¦
Content so good you’d pay for it
I’m a massive fan of the writing of Ben Thompson – and so should you be. The analysis he provides on his blog is superb – and it’s free! Interestingly, he also provides extra content for a fee – aā¦
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: An Open Letter to Software Suppliers – 13 Ways to Help the Public Sector to the Cloud – @copley_rich Why the obsession with “coding” misses the point – from @jjn1 “Whatsappā¦
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 recipeā¦
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: The History of Programming Languages Nextdoor Brings Its Neighborhood-Focused Social Network To The iPhone With Debut Of Native iOS App | TechCrunch Fedora Project Announces Pidora Remix for Raspberry Pi Doctorsā¦
Could a customer service centre be a source of social media content?
Just a quick thought: could local authority customer service centres be sources of content for their social media channels? Most customer service departments in councils these days have CRMs of varying sophistication and they must be able to report onā¦
Whose content is it, anyway?
Lloyd Davis has a thoughtful post on his blog about all the content he has been putting online for the last decade and a half:
I want to take stock and put it all in some order. Itās one of those things that really needs doing. I think I know pretty much what Iām doing here now ā thereās writey stuff, thereās visual stuff and thereās audio stuff and sometimes it all gets mixed up but thatās about the size of itā¦
I hate the way that these are all differently integrated ā ideally, I mean in that ideal world where I had a team of people to sort this out for me, Iād have everything also hosted independently and from today Iād not be using any of these services as the primary channel/home for anything.
I think Lloyd is right to be concerned - as he sees value in his content he wants to ensure he has some control, or ownership over it.
Bookmarks for October 30th through December 10th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Living with rats: Nine signposts towards Our Society – Good stuff from @juliandobson Wikileaks and the Long Haul – Shirky on Wikileaks What the attacks on WikiLeaks tell us –ā¦