Aly Fielding

May: Interesting 2026
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September: Papercamp 5
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Lovely stuff.

Testing a new GOV.UK publishing application: Content Block Manager We’ve built an application that allows GOV.UK publishers to create and reuse modular content. Find out how it works, what we’ve learned from testing and what’s next.

One for the online publishing aficionados, but this is a good from the GOV.UK team about how they're starting to deconstruct a page-centric publishing model into distinct and relatable content objects. Good tactic to avoid AI Agents mangling your messages. insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/20/t...

Building up trust with this new little one. He’s a curious chap and a fast learner.

A pair of blue trainers against frosty grass and leaves. The sunrise was particularly beautiful during this morning’s run.

A bright and frosty last run of the year. 684 miles done.

Text reads: “Running distance total 623.88MI, 2025.” This represents a lot of early mornings. Summer runs are great, but I really like the winter ones, running under inky, starry skies.

Done. 1000km / 622 miles.

A wooden frame on a white board with moveable type, with the words ‘spark of poetry’ backwards.

Random moveable type letters on a silver metal board

Thrifty Ink #PaperCamp4

A screen with the words: “SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A CONFERENCE AND A VILLAGE FETE (ABOUT PAPER)”

Here today. #papercamp4

A bumble bee sat on a window frame holding its front leg in the air. Through the glass window pane there’s a patch of green. This picture was taken when I was fixing up the old tool shed and found a nest of bumble bees. What a treasure to find. That summer was spent rescuing tired bees from the shed and popping them on flowers so they could refuel.

“Playful bees! Learning bees! Optimistic bees!”

Fascinating post on the most marvellous of insects:
interconnected.org/home/2025/07...

Community Clothing?

What a joyful evening of people and ideas and experiences. More of this sort of thing, please.
#interesting

A screen on a stage with the word hello in white on a green background.

Hello Interesting

A chart labelled ‘Running Distance’ with four bars filled in blue for January to April. March is the tallest bar. I managed around 70 miles that month. At the top there’s a total which reads 243.38 miles. This chart represents a lot of very early morning runs in the dark and cold. It’s also been many mornings of seeing the sun rise on a new day, which really is just the best thing.

Four months in…and despite the ongoing Achilles twinges from last year’s injury, I’m on track for this year’s running goal 🤞🏻

Hello.

Love this description of what it feels like to enter *that* space when running:

“There are new experiences to be found, when you go past your limits, which aren’t like the old ones scaled up. They’re something distinct. Unanticipated and unanticipatable.”
interconnected.org/home/2025/04...

How information architects are helping to build GOV.UK’s future As we reflect on a successful event at GDS for World Information Architecture Day, find out how information architects’ work to classify, structure and consistently manage content is supporting GOV.UK...

This is great. Super interested to see what the GOV.UK team do and make. Content modelling and information architecture could transform content across government.

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Uphill struggle ahead for Govt’s use of AI as PAC report reveals the scale of the challenge - Committees - UK Parliament Out of date tech and poor-quality data put public sector adoption at risk as public trust jeopardised over transparency in use of algorithms.

Good clear eyed report from the Public Accounts Committee showing that getting AI to work in government means investing in data, tackling legacy IT, paying for skills and managing procurement to avoid dominance by a few providers
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A slide with text: The symbiosis of IA and AI

A slide with black text on white: IAs help give AI contextual awareness by deriving, curating and documenting information structure and relationships

Loved this talk at #WIADLDN on information architecture and artificial intelligence, and how this is being explored at the Government Digital Service. Lots of good stuff to think about.

A large oak tree black in shadow against a blue, grey and white sky at sunrise. This tree is one of a line of oaks marking the edge of the place. They’ve been here a long time.

HNY. Watching a new day start in this place. The weather may be a bit dreich, but the year is light and new. And I have a flask of Monmouth Coffee.

A pair of blue trainers against green grass, brown autumn leaves and a bit of mud. These trainers got me through an Achilles injury over summer. That one was not fun, but the trainers helped a lot.

…And the last run of the year is done. A total of 513 mi / 825 km in 2024. Super happy with that.

Gold lettering on black. The text reads: “St. Bride Foundation Institute. Entrance. Bride Lane.” There is a drawing of a hand pointing to the left.

Hello Papercamp.

Full Fact Services board member. Learning and Development specialist (unpaid) - Full Fact Full Fact Services is looking for an experienced L+D professional to join as a board member and act as a subject matter expert to help guide, oversee, and support Full Fact’s commercial training work.

We're looking for a Board level volunteer to advise us at @fullfact.bsky.social as we develop our own training business. We sell courses on mastering data and fact checking and recognise the opportunity to do more to strengthen resilience to misinformation.

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Right? I keep remembering bits. Mission Control!

The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks Tom Hanks narrates an epic experience that offers a unique new perspective on humankind's past and future voyages to the moon.

First experience of Lightroom in London today, watching The Moonwalkers. Genuinely awesome seeing Apollo and Artemis moon mission footage at such a giant scale.

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…and just like that <blows on fingers> my current contract has ended.

Taking a week or two to take stock, read some things, rejig my website. But if anyone knows of any contract service design or design leadership roles happening, please do drop me a line.

Oh brill! Looking forward to catching up with you there!

The lineup for Papercamp 3 looks superb. Can’t wait.

Papercamp 3: an event exploring the weird and wonderful world of physical and digital paper.
Saturday 21 September. St Bride Foundation, London.

www.designswarm.com/papercamp-3/

Yes, absolutely this :)

Congratulations!

Introducing GOV.UK's new publishing strategy Product updates and news from the Government Digital Service's GOV.UK team.

Great to see the focus on content modelling in the new GOV.UK publishing strategy: insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2024/08/07/i...

Early days, but optimism is definitely in order.

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