February 2020 – Peter Jordan

Digital multi-hyphenates

Multi-hyphenate NOUN A person, especially a celebrity, with several professions or skills.

Matt Jukes’ recent post on Multi-hyphenates got a lot of comments on Twitter and certainly struck a note with me. Like Matt, I started my ‘digital’ journey in an earlier era. I started running a University website with Microsoft FrontPage,

Slow Ways hack day

Screen shot of an online Ordnance Survey map showing a footpath route from Bardney westwards to Lincoln

On 1 February, a sunny Saturday, I travelled to Clerkenwell to join 60 or 70 other volunteers on a hack day. We were there to start identifying and mapping walking routes between Britain’s towns and cities. There are over 200,000