NewBizNews: Hyperlocal « BuzzMachine – The value of volunteering: This is the hardest to calculate but is critical to the local models: People are contributing to the newssphere because they want to, because they care. With help, I’m confident they’ll do more. That’s part of what we’re trying to discover at CUNY in our work …
Data, crown copyright, archives, listening to communities and the "empowerment heist".
I’m rootling through my feed reader catching up. On Thursday Tom Watson announced that Crown Copyright was to be revised so those wanting to data mash with information from the Office of Public Sector Information will now be automatically granted a license. With a rather neat turn of phrase “They say information is power, but …
thestraightchoice.org – The Election Leaflet Monitoring Project
The Straight Choice website is a place where anyone can upload any election leaflet delivered to them, so we can all keep track of what the parties are saying and whether it is true: Election leaflets are one of the main weapons in the fight for votes in the UK. They are targeted, effective and …
Stuff I've seen from May 2nd to May 6th
These are my links for May 2nd through May 6th: twittl | Twittl – Chat Catcher is a simple script that you can install on your website or WordPress blog and it will pull in all conversations related to your blog post from Twitter, Friendfeed, and Identi.ca. These conversations get posted as comments/trackbacks on your …