It’s been quite an eye-opener meeting Marlon Parker. He’s visiting the UK from Cape town in South Africa and has come over here to share some of his work at the charity Impact Direct. He was here with Jon Hickman. Below is a quick interview with him, where he explains how he began using social …
Stuff I've seen July 10th through July 12th
These are my links for July 10th through July 12th: Intel Social Media Guidelines – Genuinely excellent guidelines for intel staffers on getting involved with social media. Not what ships are for at Helpful Technology – "one of the local authority participants contributed a quote which struck a deep chord: “Ships are ’safe’ in the …
About Brum podcast features social media surgeries
Some of you may know that podnosh began as a podcasting business in 2005, with the Grassroots Channel – audio stories of active citizens in Birmingham. At the last social media surgery Christopher Woods interviewed me for what has become the first episode in his freshly minted About Brum podcast. You can listen below, and …
Iraq, Clay Shirky, Court Reporting, Post Codes API. My links July 5th through July 10th
These are some of the things I’ve been reading recently: Ernest Marples’ Postcode Latitude/Longitude Lookup API – Post codes are really useful, but the powers that be keep them closed unless you have loads of money to pay for them. Which makes it hard to build useful websites (and that makes Ernest sad). So we …