Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web The policy world and academia offer widely different opportunities for early career researchers. | Impact of Social Sciences In academia you look for a problem you can answer well, and in policy you find the best answer you can to the problem you are given. StrikingRead… Read more »

As an antidote to the three posts this week criticising London transport maps and information, a particularly splendid reworking of the tube map has been going the rounds recently (click on it to see a bigger version). It shows the names of good independent coffee shops in place of station names. That could be reallyRead… Read more »

As an update to yesterday’s post showing how much better TfL information can be presented by applying a little bit of information design, here is an even better example – it’s a cleaner map, with more information and it’s by far the clearest guide to what will be happening that I have seen. Again though,Read… Read more »

If you don’t know what’s going on in a system, it’s very hard to know how to respond to it. Those who have information are powerful, those who share information empower others. Some of that is about big stuff, but some of it is about very small things. So in the next couple of days,Read… Read more »

It’s the Monday1 after the Govcamp before, the day Dave Briggs once described as the most depressing day of all, as the exhilaration of the event crashes into the realities of working lives. I like Govcamp for a long list of reasons I wrote about last year – I won’t repeat them here, but theyRead… Read more »

The question of how we work in a digital world is occupying me quite a lot at the moment. Prompted in part by my involvement with the project to deliver technology good enough for work, I wrote a post here a few weeks back on whether offices are redundant, with a couple of follow upRead… Read more »

It is time to move from circulating documents to visiting texts. Mark Foden The post Aphorism 99 appeared first on Public Strategist. Original post

More than 90% of people don’t know about CTRL- or CMD- F… http://t.co/wDhRUVa4IF — Neil Williams (@neillyneil) December 2, 2013 My first computer came with a big solid manual. In fact it came with two, one for MS-DOS, the operating system, and one for BASIC. The first – and for a long time only –Read… Read more »

More than 90% of people don’t know about CTRL- or CMD- F…http://t.co/wDhRUVa4IF — Neil Williams (@neillyneil) December 2, 2013 My first computer came with a big solid manual. In fact it came with two, one for MS-DOS, the operating system, and one for BASIC. The first – and for a long time only – softwareRead… Read more »

A few years ago, I wrote a bit of a rant about waiting for a parcel to be delivered without knowing when it would be coming – the middle class angst of the twenty-first century. The problem, I argued then was that the delivery companies’ information management was, perhaps not surprisingly, optimised for their needs,Read… Read more »