Archive for July, 2008

Has Birmingham’s Artsfest gone anti-social on Twitter?

Saturday, July 5th, 2008 | 27 Comments »

Earlier today I accepted and cheerfully reciprocrated an approach from Artsfest on Twitter.  A few hours later Stef Lewandowski messaged me to ask If I thought it was right for this icon of the Birmingham arts scene to be using an invite bot to find friends on twitter

The short answer is no.  If that’s what [...]

“Portable solar powered Mac”

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »

Documentally:

It costs £69 to protect a lamp post from vulgar Graffiti

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »

Vale Mail on the price of anti graffiti coatings.

Government websites need pavements

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »

A simple summary from Steven L Clift about key ingredients for government websites if they are to help strengthen democracy:

The typical e-government experience is like walking into a barren room
with a small glass window, a singular experience to the exclusion of
other community members. There is no human face, just a one-way process
of paying your taxes, [...]

Show them a better way a £20,000 competition from the Cabinet Office.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Brilliant. The Power of Information Taskforce has created a £20,000 prize fund for people who want to develop new ways to use publicly owned data for public benefit. You submit ideas through the website boldly called showusabetterway, indicating a fresh attitude which is summed up by this quote:
We’re confident that you’ll have more and [...]