Where Does My Money Go? the beauty of open data
The good people of the open knowledge foundation have just released a prototype of their visualisation tool for UK gov spending. This on the same week that the gov announced radical plans for opening...
View ArticleCrisisCamp London, Saturday, 23 Jan. 2010
The London Knowledge Lab is hosting a series of CrisisCamp workshops in January and February. The first of these events will be on this Saturday, 23 Jan. 2010, from 10:00 to 17:00. A CrisisCamp is an...
View ArticleDear Times of India, what part of Creative Commons don’t you understand?
Times of India is finding it hard to get its head around internet culture and intellectual rights. I mean, stealing a Wikipedia article? How stupid can you get?
View ArticleJudaism is Linux
This is a response to Heather Gold’s Microsoft = Christian, Apple = Jews. Judaism is really Linux: There’s 100s of commands, most users don’t know half of them and don’t understand half of those....
View Article“America Imprisoned” – why you should care about Dr. Alexia Nibona’s visa
Agli – the The African Great Lakes Initiative of the Friends Peace Teams is an incredible organisation working to promote grassroots peace, healing and reconciliation initiatives in one of the most...
View ArticleRubbish aid: send your junk to Africa
As seen on TV, people in Africa can make a living from scavenging rubbish piles. Now you can help them, and solve some space problems in your back yard at the same time! Its the perfect win-win, and...
View ArticleIsrael’s Ministry of Education adopts Abraham Fund’s ‘Language as Cultural...
You may have seen the BBC's report - see link here - about the Israeli Ministry of Education's recent decision to make Arabic-language classes compulsory in state schools. But what the story doesn't...
View Articleif you’re walking the Limestone way this weekend, please look for my son’s...
We’ve just been on a wonderful walk along the Limestone way, from Matlock to Castleton (we slept at the lovliest B&B ever – Niki & Steve’s Arborlow farm). On the day before last, we stopped for...
View ArticleHey Google – where are my flappin’ videos?
is this google’s idea of a graceful exit? Google recently sent the users of video.google.com service a notice saying that it was discontinuing this service, and urging them to migrate their videos to...
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