The Royal Society (founded 1660, ‘the oldest learned society still in existence’) have just launched a blog. Maybe this could give some impetus to our newer institutions such as local authorities. It also made me think about what other science Read more…
We received a cautionary tale this morning about what not to put into emails: "My wife recently had her email address blocked by the school where her sister teaches because she put three kisses at the end of a message, Read more…
One of the nice things about travelling by train is the opportunity to meet new people. Last year I ended up sitting next to an old house mate from 10 years previously who now has a couple of pubs in Read more…
According to the Guardian at Davos: Gordon Brown said today that the days of the "smoke-filled room" were over and that politicians had to involve the public in decision-making in order to win the arguments for free trade, globalisation and Read more…
The UK and Ireland e-Democracy exchange mailing list has recently reached a membership milestone of 100 members. The group consists of many if not most of the more vocal members of the e-Democracy community in these parts. It was originally Read more…
David Miliband tells in his blog how India: "now plans devolution beyond the 29 states to local government, where he explained that some 3 million people are elected councillors, over one million of them women (more elected women than the Read more…
Richard Pope has released a Beta version of a site I’ve wanted to produce for a while. www.planningalerts.com uses planning application data published by local councils to alert people to planning application within a specified radius of their home (or Read more…
Cllr Martin Mullaney from Moseley and Kings Heath Ward, Birmingham has a thing with taggers. He has recently made a film about the tagging on a sports pavilion in his ward and posted it to YouTube. Amazingly it has had Read more…
…which almost never last past January. Instead I’ve got a new job, working full time for Gallomanor, which means changing nearly everything in my life, so who needs resolutions to create change? I’ve been freelancing for Gallomanor off and on Read more…
A link from the Guardian TechBlog led me to spend 20 minutes watching a video of the most captivating speaker I’ve seen in a long while. He was speaking at TED2006. Visit here to view the videos. Hans Rosling is Read more…