Cabinet Office’s proposed Open Data User Group
“When the words “intelligent customer on behalf of Government” are used in relation to “Open Data”, and the Shareholder Executive, and tightly closed discussions, and when various large stakeholders in...
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Which bits of Local Government care least about their website?
The SOCITM studies usually cited are a cherry picking of those who care about the answers because they look good, based on the selective users who do reply. But we know something else about Local...
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Some viewing method that I used to know
This song has gone viral. I hadn’t noticed it at all until a friend was surprised I had no idea what she was referring to (she’s far more hip and cool than I am). I now see it everywhere, and wonder...
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Names
One of the things about Facebook and Twitter, is that people can say something that “others” think stupid, and the horse has almost immediately bolted. Previously, your mates would laugh and forget...
View ArticleOn data
On the need for data geeks around open data for now, but it should go away over time: Flack is a organisation actively doing great work in and for the community of Cambridge. It’s a social enterprise...
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TheGovernmentSays.com – 2012 changes?
After finishing some server changes late one summer night in 2006, I checked that TheGovernmentSays was still working before heading to bed late. In the few minutes before, there had been a couple of...
View ArticleA Very Cambridge Council
Cambridge had an interesting set of election results. For the next 2 years, the council will be finely balanced, with 21 Lib Dems, and 21 others (the Mayor has a casting vote which will go with the...
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Thoughts on a Geek Manifesto.
“If you ask for what you want, you might just get it”, but not quite how you expect. Geek Manifesto is a detailed summary of the “awakening of the geeks” over the last few years. Covering libel,...
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UKGovCamp 2013
It was suggested on twitter (by someone, I forget who) that govcamp may be past its prime. However, I’m not sure that’s true; not because the past goals still need to be achieved, but because it may...
View ArticleQuiet…
My day job currently involves writing various things which appear over at Privacy International. Posts here remain nothing to do with PI.
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Design matters
8 years ago to the day, one of my longest running projects was turned on: TheGovernmentSays.com. The aim was to make it impossible to bury bad news – if you were interested in a topic, you got told...
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“Unknown Technologies of non-terrestrial origin”
A request for a Research Specialist isn’t unusual, but an advert for someone with skills with “Unknown Technologies of non-terrestrial origin” is not quite what you expect to see on the UK Government...
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Everything feels like failure in the middle.
I’ve been repeatedly asked why I still believe in the Government Digital Service’s ability to deliver on its mission. This is the saddest, but possibly best example of why. It talks about Aaron, but...
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Random idea: Google Reader and app.net
I really want app.net to succeed. It has all of the qualities, but none of the scale-downsides of twitter. Google reader closing is a shame, but an RSS reader isn’t hard. What is hard, is getting...
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Which bits of Local Government care least about their website?
The SOCITM studies usually cited are a cherry picking of those who care about the answers because they look good, based on the selective users who do reply. But we know something else about Local...
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Names
One of the things about Facebook and Twitter, is that people can say something that “others” think stupid, and the horse has almost immediately bolted. Previously, your mates would laugh and forget...
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Ebooks 2013 vs 2011
Having just moved house, I’m struck by the change in ebooks over the last time I moved. When I first started planning to move to Cambridge, there were a number of books that I owned where I wanted the...
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Is the UK Government creating more Ed Snowdens?
Bradley Manning solemnly swore to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” It doesn’t matter which country it is, the State expects the...
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Cambridge Cycle Repairs on Sunday
If you’re looking for a bike shop in Cambridge (UK), open for same day repairs on a Sunday, the little shop on Laundress Lane (off Mill Lane) is open for same day repairs. (posted because when I...
View ArticleSTARTTLS and FreeBSD
I can never find a good set of instructions for enabling STARTTLS in FreeBSD and sendmail. The one I keep coming back to is this STARTTLS section in this OpenBSD set, as the pathnames all match:...
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