Comments on: David Cameron, Tom Steinberg and Information Scraping http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/ Social media, active citizens, podcasting, neighbourhoods and more. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:23:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Podnosh Blog : High Fibre Podcasting » Archive » Is Tom Watson MP stealing or reading? The Tories think the former. http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-64802 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:12:59 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-64802 [...] By the way Tom Watson has put up his thinking on how the problem of the civilserf blogger might be avoided in the future.  It’s good to see public thoughts on this – whou would like to join the conversation and help improve what Tom is sugesting – George?  Rohan? Another post that relate to this is here: [...] [...] By the way Tom Watson has put up his thinking on how the problem of the civilserf blogger might be avoided in the future.  It’s good to see public thoughts on this – whou would like to join the conversation and help improve what Tom is sugesting – George?  Rohan? Another post that relate to this is here: [...]

]]> by: Nick Booth http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-63835 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:41:39 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-63835 Hello Tom. Thanks for the comment. I hope what I wrote didn't imply any political partiality on the part of you or mySociety. I'm confident the work is completely non-partisan. I was just enjoying seeing mainstream politicians starting to talk in public about the case you have been making. There is a huge culture shift required in most public services and if it is to happen then politicians need to understand what that means and why. Hello Tom. Thanks for the comment. I hope what I wrote didn’t imply any political partiality on the part of you or mySociety. I’m confident the work is completely non-partisan.
I was just enjoying seeing mainstream politicians starting to talk in public about the case you have been making.
There is a huge culture shift required in most public services and if it is to happen then politicians need to understand what that means and why.

]]> by: Tom Steinberg http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-63832 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:06:57 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-63832 I've never met or spoken to Mr Cameron, but one of their staffers does occasionally call to sense check things, especially when they explicitly mention things that mySociety runs like TheyWorkForYou. That happened before this speech. mySociety is completely non-partisan, otherwise people would trust our sites much less when it comes to sensitive issues like writing to your politician. However, I/we will happily answer questions from anyone, and I try to talk about or publish any ideas that I/we come up with in private in a public context too, so that they're there for anyone to talk about. In this case I've told about six million people over the last thre years that councils need to produce standardised information for things like their debates and votes if we're ever to see them in nice sites like TheyWorkForYou. I'd be delighted if all the parties would pick up on this! I’ve never met or spoken to Mr Cameron, but one of their staffers does occasionally call to sense check things, especially when they explicitly mention things that mySociety runs like TheyWorkForYou. That happened before this speech.

mySociety is completely non-partisan, otherwise people would trust our sites much less when it comes to sensitive issues like writing to your politician. However, I/we will happily answer questions from anyone, and I try to talk about or publish any ideas that I/we come up with in private in a public context too, so that they’re there for anyone to talk about. In this case I’ve told about six million people over the last thre years that councils need to produce standardised information for things like their debates and votes if we’re ever to see them in nice sites like TheyWorkForYou. I’d be delighted if all the parties would pick up on this!

]]> by: dp http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-63769 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:38:06 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-63769 Nick@GroupsNearYou: Done. Thanks for the pointer. Nick@GroupsNearYou: Done. Thanks for the pointer.

]]> by: Nick Booth http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-63744 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:07:00 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-63744 It would save time - he wont have to brief himself or tell himself what he needs to think and do. It would save time – he wont have to brief himself or tell himself what he needs to think and do.

]]> by: Bill Thompson http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-63742 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:57:55 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/01/cameronmysocietyconervativescraping/#comment-63742 Surely it is time to get Tom S a peerage and make him Minister for APIs? It's the only sensible way forward... Surely it is time to get Tom S a peerage and make him Minister for APIs? It’s the only sensible way forward…

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