An online notebook
This is a new regular series of posts where I highlight a cool online service that you may or may not have heard of. Whether I ever make it to 101 is debatable I feel… I’ve also set up a Twitter feed where links to these posts will be automatically pumped. This is the first … Keep reading
Another post I have been sat on and chewing over for a little while… Charles Arthur in the Guardian highlighted an interesting area of discussion in the use of open source in government a little while ago. He reports on the views of Liam Maxwell, the councillor responsible for IT policy at the Royal Borough … Keep reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Social intranets: Enterprises grapple with internal change – Great stuff on deploying social tech within big organisations. Open Government Licence – "You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under this licence, the Open Government Licence, freely and flexibly, with only … Keep reading
The LG Group have today launched a feedback site to get views on the draft guidance that has been developed for councils on the based ways to approach publishing open data. As the site says: Many authorities already publish considerable data. The challenge now is to be systematic about this, and to adopt some basic … Keep reading
Finally, the third DavePress podcast! Here I chat to Tim Davies of Practical Participation about open data and his research into the subject. [audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/davepress/DavePress_Ep_3.mp3] If you can’t, or don’t want to, use the flash player, you can download the .mp3 instead or subscribe with iTunes. If you have any feedback – or want to volunteer to be a … Keep reading