If you really are ‘user first’ then you must be ‘surveillance last’
Submitting your users or customers to surveillance means you aren’t building your product or service around them as you might claim. Continue Reading
Author: James Mullarkey
How much longer can your brand stay on Facebook?
What if your customers start to associate your brand with disinformation, hate speech and some of Facebooks controversial behaviors? Continue Reading
Why Amazon, Alexa and #TechForGood can’t be in the same sentence
It’s so disappointing to see digital professionals in charities promoting spyware infrastructure from a company that thinks nothing of exploiting the vulnerable, the principles the sector were built on have been abandoned. Continue Reading
An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Dear Mr Zuckerberg – I wanted to write to you about my recent decision to delete my Facebook account. Continue Reading
Useful books for digital professionals
Over time I’ve managed to build up a number of books on work-related subjects some of these, others might find interesting. Continue Reading
The Cobble Monster 2018
The premier cobbled, urban cyclosportive was back again for a seventh edition. Continue Reading
Swim Serpentine 2017
I decided to have another go at Swim Serpentine having stunk the place out the year before. Continue Reading
I’m 60 years old and want to be a web developer
Would a soon to be pensioner be able to start a career as a web developer so late in life and would they be taken seriously by their peers and clients? Continue Reading
Crystal Palace Triathlon 2017
I was back for my first triathlon for three years in my local park. Continue Reading
The Cobble Monster 2017
After a year away The Cobble Monster returned with a new name but the same formula of bikes, larks, beer and cobbles. Continue Reading