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An online notebook
As always, I am trying to be helpful. No, really! I am. So, here’s a new thing. Every so often I will answer some questions put to me by visitors to this blog. All you have to do is ask…
I’ve been a bit serious lately on the blog. Sorry. Here’s a bit of whimsy to lighten the mood. Worcestershire County Council have produced this video to inform the public about what they are doing about pot holes. As you’ll…
It’s only now, a couple of weeks after the announcement, that I feel I can talk about the demise of Google Reader. Up til now, the whole thing has just been too upsetting. Reader is the site I turn to…
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…
via Jon Worth
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…
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…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XluovrUA6Bk
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…
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…