What we need now is a business which watches you repairing something live and then identifies and dispatches the parts you need as they diagnose the problem. Free service – income from parts. That would allow amateurs to do the live watching and diagnosis and take an affiliates cut from the parts sales. Trust would …
Angry Journalist #1748
Digital hero: Angry Journalist #1748: Journalist 1573, you are never too old to get another job. I got hired on to my present newspaper last May at the age of 74. I’ve got a heart transplant, suffer from gout, and am losing my hearing. I never shot video in my life, but now shoot it …
act.ivi.st
http://act.ivi.st/ is a little like all the mySociety sites pulled into one place – but for Americans. Designed to give people the raw data they need to act well.
Online Collaboration – Google Docs or Office Live?
Readwriteweb has this very useful comparison of the two online document services. Google Docs is free – Office Live works with a bought copy of Office. The comparison which struck me says: Collaboration In Google Docs, collaborators have the ability to work on files together, in-real time. Ten people may edit and/or view a document …