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Perpetual Pretentiousness Prejudice
I’ve been accused of reverse snobbery more than once in my life. I wonder if this a particularly British thing as I don’t know of many other places quite so obsessed with the ‘class system’. I had a pretty pathological distrust of anyone who attended public school and attendees of what I now know to…
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A ‘meh’ life crisis
As Adrian Mole might have said I am 41 and a half. This is, according to authoritative sources (well Wikipedia), about the time when a ‘mid life crisis’ might occur. I’m not sure if that is what I experiencing but I am certainly going through an introspective phase that had previously been pretty absent from…
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PSI Force
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…
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PSI Force: 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 link well shame on you…
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Recycling Civic Hacks?
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!)…