Open Data in Local Government
A few weeks ago I saw Chris Taggart of Openly Local talking about open data at OpenTech2010. In recent days I’ve found myself with the opportunity to inform the thinking, of senior managers in a Local Authority context, about open data. I am particularly [...]
#iranelection cyberwar guide for beginners
The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through twitter.
Do NOT publicise proxy IP’s over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security forces are monitoring this hashtag, and the moment they identify a proxy IP they will block it [...]
Today I had lunch with a fascinating man…
He is a man with a passion for the spoken word, and a vision for how the fading oral traditions from around world will have a place to explode back into our consciousness, and feed a void that grows within us.
We [...]
DS4, the fourth annual International Festival of Digital Storytelling, is back with a vengance.
Acknowledged by the BBC’s Gareth Morlais (read his blog here!) to be one of the two ‘must attend’ gatherings in the calendar for practitioners or fans of Digital Storytelling, DSCymru looks forward [...]
Building Gods
When humans are limited to thinking in three dimensions, and robots develop the capacity to conceive of things in as many as ten or twenty dimensions… how do we reason with them?
RSA – Clay Shirky – 18 March 2008
Clay Shirky 18 March 2008
Here Comes Everybody: the power of organising without organistions
Clay Shirky’s lucid and penetrating analysis will steer us through the online social explosion and ask what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organisational structures.
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