ArtOfGov

Read something recently – probably in the FT – about e-books (yes, it was, thinking about it – a review from some big swanky fair in Las Vegas…did Apple unveil something?) and why they might not catch on as fast as some would like. Two reasons were cited, the first being that it’s difficult to [...]

One of the reasons for information brevity might be the decreasing size of the devices that now connect to the internet.  I’ve just taken delivery of a  neat Toshiba netbook.  It feels like one of those portable typewriters that Hemingway or Orwell might have taken to Spain in 1936.
The keyboard just about works, even for [...]

Yesterday went along to Records Management Society meeting of Wales / West Midlands. Interesting day! Particulary as a coach load of students came along from Aberyswth University.
In the afternoon one of the asked ‘what’s going to be the impact on the workplace of the digital natives entering?’.
Waking up at 5.30am this morning, the first thought [...]

That really was the week, that was. Started off on Sunday with the terrifying, tremendous and surreal flight from Blackpool to Douglas. At one point, across the phospherescent Irish sea, the grey scudding frozen clouds and the glimpse of towering black anvil clouds, I had a total zen like moment; the last time such a [...]