On Saturday I was at the Opentech conference. Some brief notes about the sessions I saw. The day was sponsored by data.gov.uk, so it seemed polite to see one of their sessions first. I watched Richard Stirling and friends talk about some of the work they’re doing on releasing lots and lots of linked data.… Continue reading Opentech 2010
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BBC Radio Streams
I’ve just written this over on my BBC Radio Streams page: I’ve got email from a couple of people saying that the Real Audio radio streams were finally turned off overnight. This means that the few links left on these pages (and any links that you have saved from earlier versions of this page) will… Continue reading BBC Radio Streams
The Political Web
Long-time readers might remember The Political Web, a web site that I threw together at a BBC hack day a couple of years ago. The site has languished as I haven’t had time to do anything with it for well over a year, but last night I refreshed the database that powers it so that… Continue reading The Political Web
Modern Campaigning
I got in touch with all of the Battersea candidates who aren’t publishing web feeds to ask them if there was anything I had missed. I only got a reply from one of them. But that’s ok. They’re probably busy. Campaigning is a time-consuming business. The response I got was marked as “not for publication”… Continue reading Modern Campaigning
The People’s Pamphlet
Update: Ok, yes, we admit it. It was an April Fool’s joke. Well most of it was. I’m not really going to be taking a month off to live in a camper van with Tim and Sim-O (though I’m sure it would have been fun!) But the wiki really exists. And we really want your… Continue reading The People’s Pamphlet
End of an Era
I’ve had a home internet connection for quite a long time. Originally I used Compuserve (I’m not too proud to admit it) but I’m pretty sure that I had switched to Demon before the beginning of 1995. At the time there weren’t really many other options to choose from if you wanted a real internet… Continue reading End of an Era
Building Web Sites is Easy
The geek shall inherit the Earth. But the semi-geek won’t be far behind. Back in April I wrote a piece about MPs’ web sites. I came to the conclusion that a large number of MPs have web sites that are over-complex and therefore cost more money to build and maintain than they should have done.… Continue reading Building Web Sites is Easy
SW12 Social Network
One of the themes I picked up on at this year’s Opentech conference was that of local social media. More and more people are using open source tools to build local online communities and this movement seems likely to grow. I was particularly impressed with the work that Will Perrin and friends are doing over… Continue reading SW12 Social Network
Opentech Overview
[Update: Details of this year’s Opentech conference are at ukuug.org/opentech] Yesterday was the annual Opentech conference. I’m going to have some more to say about it in some detail over the next few days, but those thoughts are still peculating so in the meantime here’s a list of the talks that I watched. Community and… Continue reading Opentech Overview
Thunderbird and Exchange
This morning a friend was complaining on Twitter about using Evolution on Linux to talk to his company’s Exchange server. Evolution is the default answer to the question “how do I talk to Exchange from Linux”, but my past experience has been much like my friend’s – it’s really not a very good answer. I… Continue reading Thunderbird and Exchange