I have really been enjoying the Past, Present Future podcast lately. The recent series on George Orwell and WW2 was great. Made me dig out my copy of Orwell’s Essays for a read.

📅 Daily Note: July 11, 2025

Digital and mission-driven government: digital, burdens and networks – Richard Pope’s first essay of three looking at how his Platformland thinking “can provide a unifying role in the successful delivery of the government’s missions”. In the digital age the answer…

Daily note for 26 September 2023

Rather terrifyingly, I was invited to chat on this podcast, which came out yesterday, on all things local government, technology and digital. Nice practical tips on Outlook etiquette from top localgov blogger Tass. Two great jobs at City of Lincoln…

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? 😍 This…

Podcast episode 5 – Anne McCrossan

Here’s my fifth podcast. This is becoming a thing! I’m joined in this episode by Anne McCrossan, who runs Visceral Business. Anne’s thing is getting organisations perform as genuinely social businesses. Here’s a link to download the original mp3…

Podcast episode 4 – Andy Mabbett

Here’s the fourth episode of the podcast, where I chat with Andy Mabbett, twitcher birder extraordinaire and Wikipedian par excellence. He’s also done a bit of web work in local government. Here’s a link to download the original mp3 file if…

Podcast episode 3 – Helen Reynolds

Here’s the third episode of the podcast, where I chat with Helen Reynolds who helps organisations do great digital stuff at Social for the People, and is an all round good egg. Apologies to our listener, and to Helen, as my Skype connection dropped…

Podcast episode 2 – Carl Haggerty

Here’s the second episode of the podcast, where I chat with Carl Haggerty who does digital at Devon County Council, chairs LocalGovDigital and is a keen promoter of reflective practice at unconferences. Here’s a link to Carl’s blog. Here’s a…

Podcast episode 1 – Dan Slee

Inspired by my friends Lloyd and Robert, I’m starting a regular-ish podcast. Here’s the first episode, where I chat with all round comms supremo Dan Slee, off of Comms 2.0. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230441292″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] If you would…

Try Doorbell

No, really. try it. Try Doorbell is a fantastic podcast by my friends Robert Brook and Lloyd Davis. It’s a great listen – some tech, some culture, some wittering. Here’s the feed URL so you can subscribe in your favourite…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: The power of technology for learning and why creating together is better | Helen Milner Barcamp NotForProfits | dxw (I’ll be there representing @tasksquadhq) Digital local government: a future in Google…

Bookmarks for March 30th through April 5th

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky – Awesome stuff from Shirky.   Reflecting on my MSc research by Michele Ide-Smith – "By researching the attitudes and perceptions of authorities…

Podcasting

I had the pleasure of being asked to be a part of Gov 2.0 radio, a live phone-in podcast about government and the web based in the States. Due to timezone stuff it meant I had to stay up til…

Got an iPhone? Get AudioBoo

Neville writes about the latest service from Best Before – the guys behind the awesome turn-your-macbook-into-a-videobooth service Videoboo – which is Audioboo. What you do with Audioboo is simple: record audio on your iPhone and publish the recordings to your…

the interruption

I’ve started a podcast! the interruption is going to be a weekly chat between me and someone doing something exciting in social media and web 2.0 in the UK. The first episode is a discussion with Paul Johnston of Cisco,…