Tom Watson , William Perrin and the Power of Information taskforce shows off some mock ups for crime mapping by neighbourhood and the whole social media story makes it onto the Telegraph’s front page with a couple of subsidiary articles – including one mentioning West Midlands Police mapping site.  Practical and political! Crime mapping [...]

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Thanks to a tweet from Alison I’ve found this wonderful use of youtube to expose stupid emergency calls to the police. Good call Avon and Somerset Police. Now what stunt can I pull to see me featured in one of these? It is a [...]

I like it. A lot. It puts our content and our relationships first. Can the design push the publicity desires of the app makers into the background without leaving them disillusioned? We’ll see.

Empowered people tend to be good at conversation, understand their place in networks, have experience of how networks help get things done.

So it is very good news that the new Government Empowerment White Paper acknowledges that social media (the conversational web) will play a part in the emergence of more active citizens and stronger communities. [...]

Cquestrate Intro Video from cquestrate on Vimeo.
Last week I met Tim Kruger. He’d asked me to do a little bit of work on a very bold plan that he hatched today.

Cquestrate is an organisation and a website which plans to crowdsource technical solutions to the huge problem of recapturing the [...]

A month ago I asked if your blog helped you learn. There were dozens of responses both here and on the Bad Science blog – mostly from people who keep personal or professional blogs which help them learn. (Thank you)

This was all in reply to the Charity Commission using blogging as an example to [...]

I’m sensing a snowball.  Moments after the government offered a £20,000 fund for re-working gov data they are now asking us what else we want access to:
Public Sector Information Unlocking Service (beta)
What’s it about?
As the regulator for public sector information re-use, we know that people can encounter problems from time to time getting hold of [...]

I’ve been waiting for a chance to use this pic taken at the launch of The Big Picture earlier this year.  It’s an Arts Council project being run by Audiences Central, with some big support from the BBC – TV, Radio, as well as sponsorship from Jessops and support from Travel West Midlands (You may [...]