Will any UK political party be curious enough to allow it’s policies to be developed by wiki? From this link to Wikidemocracy.org it appears that various parties in Italy are up for it. Via.
Earthquake at the BBC
This is a useful reminder to newsrooms about what people think of the work you do. [youtube]foD0YXHIknQ[/youtube] via and from.
David Cameron, Tom Steinberg and Information Scraping
Has David Cameron been talking to Tom Steinberg at MySociety? His announcement yesterday suggests he has because he wants to make ‘scraping’ easier. Scraping is the process of harvesting information from government websites and reusing it – hopefully for public good. The Conservative leader quoted a really good example with the mysociety website theyworkforyou which …
I hope you are not a journalist…
An Italian blog recently referenced a twitterquake experience I shared with Jon Bounds and Joanna Geary (and before you reach for the irritating cliche yes the earth did move for all 3 of us – which is why we were blogging at 2am – partly to reassure each other that we were not mad and …