Regulation

Article — 5 November 2018 — 381 words

BBC Radio 2’s impossible position is of its own doing

BBC Radio 2 will see its two most important programmes losing its presenters in quick succession. Regulations put it in an impossible position. Yet the BBC still brought this situation on itself.

Linknote — 27 April 2018 — 80 words

Digital — Politics

How can we incentivise the digital world to make safer services?

How regulation came to be in railways, engineering and cars — and what this tells us about how digital services may be regulated.

Trigger points for regulation have varied depending on the field, the period of history and the country. However, the thing all these triggers have in common is a change in attitudes. People need to demand change to incentivize companies to make their products and services safer.

Article — 29 April 2016 — 992 words

What six years of IWMW tells us about developments in digital

Digital — User experience — Web

Work: SRUC — Scotland’s Rural College, University of St Andrews

Originally published on the IWMW (Institutional Web Management Workshop) blog, which is no longer online. The pace of change in the web and digital is dizzying. Looking back on my experiences of IWMW has certainly brought that home (not that I needed a reminder). Six years is a long time in digital IWMW is celebrating […]