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With the recent publication of the Digital Britain report and Gordon Brown calling on Tim Berners-Lee to help open up access to government data, there’s been a lot of talk about public organisations opening up data.
Most of this has focused around APIs and linked data (something I’m very passionate about already), but there’s much simpler [...]

Just a quick brain dump here, arising from a discussion that I had at the ‘unpanel’ at Localgovcamp.
The online community in our council area is getting larger and more vocal, with blogs, pressure groups and other communities cropping up. Often, there are things said that attack the council. In the ‘olden days’ (when attacks [...]

As some of you may know, I was up in Edinburgh for Scotweb2 on Friday (with Localgovcamp the day after!). I delivered a short session on Twitter and gave some examples and advice. I really was aiming at beginners and newbies, but it turned out more people than I expected were already tweeting. Hopefully I [...]

Well, the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference is over, the announcements have been made, and version 3.0 of the iPhone software is coming out next week.
If (like me) you’re a developer, or you’ve managed to :ahem: ‘acquire’ a copy of the version 3.0, you’ll notice that there’s a lot of cool new things, like search, voice [...]