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I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Taming the Python – geting started programming on your Raspberry Pi Battle for the planet of the APIs Returning to Free Software: A Guide Robots and Robber Barons – NYTimes.com via…
I’m delighted to be helping out Community Lincs, the rural community development charity where I serve as a trustee, with their Summer of Surfing activity during the first week of July. It’s a neat idea, to encourage people to have…
This morning’s round table, held by EELGA with the support of Public-i, was an enjoyable couple of hours, hearing about how councillors and others involved in local democracy see the future of the role and the impact the internet and…
I’ve been publishing a few bits of writing in places other than this blog lately. Here’s an article I wrote for our local newspaper – the first of what will hopefully be a regular series: I’ve also written a couple…
This week we ran a webchat on the What Next for Localism site in partnership with NALC, on the topic of 21st century councillors. You can read the archive via the CoverItLive widget on that site. On Monday next week,…
From Jan Senderek, the founder of Loom, a photo management startup: Kids today who start out with iPads and iPhones will never or rarely be in touch with a file or a folder. They won’t care about the type of data…
I’ve almost completed a course on Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, or PTLLS. It’s partly to help me improve the work I do in training and running workshops, but also as the first step in the journey…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: hackpad – neat collaboration / wiki / collaborative editing thingy The BBC’s hi-tech failure: Don’t Mention It Catch up with Doug Belshaw’s Open Badges Learning Hour – Learning Pool Geneva E-Participation…
I’m spreading my wings a bit these days, trying to get involved in different pieces of work, in different fields. Not that I’ve given up on government, just that there’s other things I’d like to explore and have a go…
Video where the excellent Manuel Castells examines new social movements, new forms of change and political democracy in the global network society.