Yay for Kindle
Amazon have just relaunched the Kindle e-reading device in the UK, with a new model, which looks rather spiffy. Mine is one of the old, white ones – but I still love it. The new one features a new layout…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Holiday
I’m officially on holiday now, so don’t expect to see much here over the next 7 days. I was hoping to get some posts written up and scheduled to publish over the week I’m away, but in the end found…
Android thoughts
So, I was lucky enough to be given a Nexus One by my wonderful employers a few weeks ago, to have a play with and possibly replace my iPhone (3gs) if I liked it. I thought perhaps folk reading this…
Learning Pool on tour in September
September is promising to be a busy month already, with Learning Pool having scheduled in some exciting events for you to come along to. Firstly, Elaine from our Modern Governor service is hosting a breakfast meeting in Birmingham. Find out…
Boring system announcement
If you can see this, it means I have managed to successfully rehost DavePress! Do me a favour and leave me a ‘hurrah!’ in the comments. It will a) make me feel better and b) help me to know everything…
Bookmarks for August 11th through August 18th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. OnePeople › Open source matters to open government. Really. – "Both DiMaio and Caudill make the mistake of believing that open source is about making cheap bits. Instead, it’s a…
Hackers for government (and a dollop of open source)
A lovely story of sharing, reusing and creative hacking in government today. There’s a whole post to be written on hacker culture and why government needs people who are able to program computers on the payroll. You just can’t outsource…
Bookmarks for August 5th through August 11th
EAVB_CFHFXKJFDR I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Splashpath – “Splashpath is a free service for Leisure Operators to create, update and communicate swimming pool timetables” The Value of Transparency Is At The Boundary between Government and…
Making learning work for you
Great post from IBM’s Luis Suarez on personal knowledge management: Well, indeed, it’s impossible to manage knowledge, even your own knowledge. However, knowledge workers can have a good chance to self manage some of that knowledge so that they can…
Government and mobile apps
A really thorough and thought-provoking post from Public Strategist on the whole ‘should government develop iPhone apps?’ debate: If government is in the business of service at all, it should be efficient, up to date, and sensitive to the needs…