Preaching the ‘Public Service Internet’ One of the favourite things I have read for a while is this piece by Adrian Hon about the idea of a ‘public service internet’. Go and read it now — it is well worth it and better than anything I am going to write here ☺ If you didn’t follow the…

This is just a ‘stub’ of an idea but was too long for Twitter. Bristol City Council is about to release a whole bunch of new open datasets with some support from the Digital Economy and Future Cities Catapult centres funded by the Technology Strategy Board (forever confused with the bank with the same initials!)…

https://flic.kr/p/dPraP …curing me of ‘impostor syndrome’ I’ve always found it hard to define what it is I do for a living. It has always seemed pretty amorphous and I’ve just sort of muddled along (for sixteen years!) doing the best I could in the circumstances but always unsure where I fit in with the wider…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/edmittance/ Entering the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’? There is this well known thing in technology circles called the Gartner Hype Cycle. The ambitious goal of it is to “ represent the maturity, adoption and social application of specific technologies.” I’m not a fan generally but on this occasion I think it helps illustrate a completely separate…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/87857621@N00/2631812503/ I was 27 the first time I remember getting on a plane. I’d apparently been to Spain as a young child but I really have zero memories of that. I have always been deathly afraid of heights — to the extent that I couldn’t cross the Clifton Suspension Bridge without freezing and needing to be carried…