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In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past month or so (or actually have a life), then you’ll have noticed that the cabinet office have started to release a big load of open data to a select few developers to have a play. Much of this data is still in very ‘flat’ [...]

As a lot of you probably know, I’m a big fan of open data, as well as driving innovation and making it easier to share information, it’s also a lot of fun. Now, councils are pretty slow in picking this stuff up, for all sorts of reasons (lack of knowledge / interest, lack of technical [...]

Now, I’m sure you’re fed up of me banging on about the Royal Mail, but bare with me, this isn’t about postcodes. Whilst idily surfing around Twitter using Tweetie 2 (which is awesome by the way), I thought I’d have a look at Royal Mail’s Twitter account to see if they’d had anything to say [...]

I love WordPress (hell, I use it for my blog don’t I?) and for a while I’ve been looking for an excuse to add to the community and build a plugin. Whilst working on a new community blog for the North Lichfield Initiative I found that excuse. The guy I was training to update the [...]

Well, it’s two days on from

Well, it happened. today, the Royal Mail have issued ernestmarples.com with a takedown notice, demanding that the service be taken down immediately under pain of legal action. For those of you who don’t know, Ernest Marples was / is a system that provided not-for-profit sites (such as HealthWhere, JobcentreProPlus.com, Planning Alerts and, by extension Twitterplan) [...]