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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’ formats [...]

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 skills, [...]

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 about [...]

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 blog [...]

Well, it’s two days on from the closure of the Ernestmarples.com service, and I’m still hopping mad about it, but, as we know, you can’t do much with anger alone, so I’ve decided to do two key things to try and move this issue along.
Firstly, inspired by this tweet I decided to start a petition [...]

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) with [...]