Tom Watson , William Perrin and the Power of Information taskforce shows off some mock ups for crime mapping by neighbourhood and the whole social media story makes it onto the Telegraph’s front page with a couple of subsidiary articles – including one mentioning West Midlands Police mapping site. Practical and political! Crime mapping has …
999 call -what year did the internet start.
[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a2p_7BDUXTk] Thanks to a tweet from Alison I’ve found this wonderful use of youtube to expose stupid emergency calls to the police. Good call Avon and Somerset Police. Now what stunt can I pull to see me featured in one of these? It is a game isn’t it? This is a challenge?
Facebook new design.
I like it. A lot. It puts our content and our relationships first. Can the design push the publicity desires of the app makers into the background without leaving them disillusioned? We’ll see.
Communities in Control: real people, real media.
Empowered people tend to be good at conversation, understand their place in networks, have experience of how networks help get things done. So it is very good news that the new Government Empowerment White Paper acknowledges that social media (the conversational web) will play a part in the emergence of more active citizens and stronger …