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Open Data Opens Up Gov
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Today sees the launch of data.gov.uk. Over the last few months I’ve had some privileged peaks behind the scenes, and I’m very excited to see it all now live. The front paragraphs on the site put it well:
Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government are opening up data for reuse. [...]
Set our Data Free and Create a (Digital) Economy
(click and rate it) Loading ...It has taken me a couple of days to write this post, because my brain is still crunching on its contents. It touches on so many different areas of the technology and business areas that I am passionate about, that I’ve had to give up covering them all in one post.
The historic destiny of data [...]
The Future of the Workplace
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I had the privilege of spending a couple of days in the company of Dr’s Anne Marie McEwan and Marie.C.Puybaraud, discussing the future of the workplace. You can see the thoughts on line – “smartworkplace – the power of collective intelligence” – or digested in this article on BBC News. The physical workplace has been evolving for [...]
Living in the Cloud – Computing
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This is a long overdue post, following on from CloudCamp London, which was the second ever CloudCamp, and the first in the UK. It’s been a couple of week’s of firsts, what with WordCamp as well.
WordCamp UK 2008 – A Qik Look Back…
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One of the great things about blogging is you can still do it when you are unable to talk! I had an unscheduled visit to the dentist today, having woken up in intense pain. Now the anesthetic is wearing off, I am remembering what happens when you get over 60 WordPress bloggers and developers in [...]
Avoiding a Business Communication Crisis
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Hey, that’s your business! Or it could be. Vandals pulled a large number of BT cables out of the ground in our local town (Camberley), leaving thousands of people and hundreds of businesses without their phones. It will take weeks to repair all of the damage. Sadly, with the increasing value of the copper in phone [...]
Future of The Web – Part II – The Future
(click and rate it) Loading ...A minutely belated followup to “Future of The Web – Part I – A History“, these are the rest of my thoughts on the NESTA “Future of the Web“ session. The videos of the event are here - you’ll need to be able to play Windows Media files.
Unsurprisingly, there were some parallels with the previous session (see Tim Berners-Lee [...]
