Oh TechNation. Britain's got tech talent. Just not like this

Re: ClusterFuck

ARM and IBM aren't "digital".

The kind of "digital" these people do involves web sites with garish pastel graphics and smiley rounded fonts, and a lot of bouncy empty-headed enthusiasm.

At least half the people involved know nothing about hardware or software.

This is not an exaggeration. Someone asked me to contribute to a "digital" college course recently, and the "digital motivator" running it had put together a lesson plan with "Note to self - find out if apps are made with CSS" in one of the boxes. She'd left exactly two hours - one session - for a complete introduction to hands-on app development.

Y'see, when you're "digital", nothing is hard, and everything is possible. Except... not really.

Unless you're the kind of person who has the brilliant ideas and gets other people with real skills to do the work. Now that's "digital."

Re: "the average digital salary"

"I'm pretty sure I do not earn a "digital" salary"

Maybe you do. Does your paycheck show binary zeroes or decimal? They may look fairly similar for the uninitiated, non-digital mind, but it is a crucially important distinction for the digital economy. Just like Yahoo! exclamation mark isn't just any old exclamation mark.

Maybe we could convince Bong to elaborate on this matter in a future article.

Re: Bournemouth...

Yes Bournemouth, full of blue rinse and stinks of piss

Re: Oh my god what have I done?

... and don't forget the storage business and writing articles for The Conversation! :)

Re: I googled it,

Me too, from their site;

Tech City UK was launched in Shoreditch in 2010 by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron to support the East London tech cluster known as Silicon Roundabout. We have since grown our support to Greater London and other cities around the UK.

"We are a publicly, funded non-profit team with a private sector mentality. Our focus is on creating the optimum conditions for digital technology businesses and entrepreneurs to thrive across the UK. Through our programmes and policy work, we accelerate the growth of digital businesses in London and across cities at all stages of their development.

We receive public funding from the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport, via Innovate UK. Our funding for 2015-2016 is £2.2 million and covers our programmes, policy informing and championing work. In order to deliver greater support to the digital business community we complement a small percentage of our funding through sponsorship.

Our vision and culture

We are a small team with big ambitions (and smiles :)"

What more can you expect from one of Dave's well informed twch ventures?

I like the way it is funded by a ministry that lumps IT in with Culture, Media and Sport, Media may be IT related in some aspects but it is wrong to describe the IT industry as a part of Media, more like the other way round in reality.

The smiles mentioned above are probably related to the 'Small Team' divvying up £2.2m and looking at minimum £50k wages.

Thinks: Must grow a beard and a silly haircut.

Re: What has the picture

Forgot to add... I wish I could turn shit into gold.

Re: What has the picture

Please, no further pictures of the lipless lord of musical mediocrity.

Remove That Offensive Picture!

We do not need to keep seeing this over-promoted over-promoter, the fact that he has so much money and influence is a damning indictment of modern society and it is galling that those of us who do see it for what it is are continually punished for our clarity of perception.

Re: Tool users vs tool makers

The day the politicians need to show a rise in the steel industry, then it will be. Currently though it's being used to show sales in the construction industry and that affordable homebuilding is on the rise, honest.