100 days to the Digital Works Conference
Today marks 100 days until the first Digital Works Conference which will be held in Leeds, at the Leeds City Museum.
Ash Mann
This week's best things
The internet gets weird again, what your users are doing on your product pages, shifts in social media dynamics, 14 predictions for 2024, and a Portishead cover.
Self-sabotage. Why don't we prioritise outcomes over outputs and process?
A culture of low trust, and a lack of clarity, has lead to an overemphasis on process and outputs. This is harming all of us that work in the cultural sector.
Cultural website, review of the week: #009 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Some thoughts on the website for Amsterdam's museum for modern and contemporary art and design
This week's best things
Happy new year. Insights on reading patterns, analysis of shifting behaviour on social media, Google research on AI, thoughts on the New York Times vs OpenAI, hackers, and a library of the future
"Surely" it "can't be that complicated"
Coverage of a recent Arts Council-British Library digital project is symptomatic of many of the leadership issues and lack of understanding that exists around digital projects in the sector.
This week's best things
The distorting sprawl of the modern internet, Lego, making exhibitions more accessible, open data, the cables that power the net, a trust crisis in AI, and some LOTR lo-fi beats
The books I read in 2023
A round-up, and some recommendations
Cultural website, review of the week: #008 Prosanova 23
Some thoughts about a (very strange) website for a bi-annual literary festival
This week's best things
OpenAI licensing news content, the future of online audiences is niche, how to talk to AI, fighting the tyranny of small decisions, the phrase that ruled the Indian internet in 2023, and Tina Turner