Nigh on a year ago Kate Cooper walked into a social media surgery here in Birmingham and started talking about a book she was going to publish. She had, she told me, persuaded 80 or so scientists from the West Midlands to write a few hundred words in response to the question “what makes you …
Stuff I've seen August 26th through to August 30th
These are my links for August 26th through August 30th: I couldn’t possibly comment: Westminster commercial noise map – experiment with Google Fusion Tables – Will Perrin… "It isn't perfect, but it's easy. If you can use a spreadsheet you can take some real public data and make a map to make a point." Reflections …
What would you show from Birmingham to demonstrate how the web can do local better than local tv?
Earlier this month Will Perrin wrote a blog post setting out why Local TV probably won’t work and, more importantly, doesn’t need to. He was responding to the government’s announcement of plans to encourage the development of up to 20 new Local TV stations by 2015. He echoed a huge number of my thoughts on …
Stuff I've seen August 25th through to August 26th
These are my links for August 25th through August 26th: Open data, democracy and public sector reform – This is an online report based on an MSc Dissertation by Tim Davies submitted to the University of Oxford, July 2010. It is shared using the Digress.it platform which allows for paragraph level commenting and hyperlinking to …