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Interested in an IgniteGov?
I’ve been playing around with ideas for a follow up to Gov:West for quite a while now without ever really settling on something that interested me enough to really commit to. I wanted to try something different and a bit ‘bigger’ but it never really came together. Doing Ignite last week and chatting to Dan…
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Internet archive law changes
Came across this via Twitter this morning – http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2013/11/spluh-spluh-splutter-goes-the.html A couple of ‘highlights’; The 2013 regulations said the UK Web Archive would be available only to people who visited a “Legal Deposit” like the British Library in person and sat at one of its terminals. Any pleb with ideas above his station knows not just…
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Rooting for Robox
I’ve been pretty interested in Kickstarter for quite a while now. I’ve backed a couple of projects – early on I contributed to the DS106 campaign and then more recently I supported both the Ghost blogging platform (really should think of what to do with my blog over there!) and also the Veronica Mars movie…
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Igniting my passion
On Wednesday evening I was grateful to be a speaker at the 9th Ignite Bristol. I spoke at the very first one which I wrote about here. At the time the Polish Club setup seemed pretty intimidating though looking back I didn’t know lucky I was! The venue for this latest event was ‘The Lantern’…
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The Redecentralized IndieWeb
I’ve been following a couple of ‘movements’ online for the last few months that I’ve found interesting and certainly share quite a few principles with but somehow I just don’t quite click with either of them. I think the people behind (and supporting) redecentralize.org and indiewebcamp.com are almost certainly right in what they are trying…