Month March 2013

The dream is fading fast

John Naughton: Because we’ve all bought into the techno-utopianism of the early Internet, we tend to assume that it’s always going to be open to everyone. But as more and more of the world goes online, it’s clear that we’re…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Crime and Justice: an open data challenge Simple steps towards local prosperity Editorially is the collaborative writing tool we’ve been waiting for Google’s Keep: is it for keeps? Probably not The…

Let’s do the LocalGovCamp again

It’s probably about time we sorted LocalGovCamp out again! For various reasons it’s going to be running after the summer rather than before, as has previously been the case. So, the two potential dates are 21st or 28th September. Let me…

Fragments

Donald Barthelme, in See the Moon?, in 1968: Fragments are the only forms I trust. Italo Calvino, in If on a Winter’s Night, a Traveller, in 1979: …the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: MOOC provider EdX goes open source – with an interesting choice of licence Making better choices for the technology we use Remember Ning? Once-buzzy social network has relaunched again as a…

Digital lit.

It strikes me that digital literacy is becoming more and more important, as more and more of the things we do in life are digitalised. It helps to understand how computers work if you want to buy some music these…

Why start a blog?

There are a number of reasons why you might want to start blogging: You have ideas you want to share You have a story to tell You have knowledge you want to demonstrate You want to progress your career You…

Three excellent vintage Woz videos

Not much I can add to these. Well worth a watch. If you can’t see them, in the titles I have linked to the original YouTube pages. Steve Wozniak’s Pledge of Apple Allegiance – “One Notion Under Jobs” Steve Wozniak…