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Open and Closed Case
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities So, we've been banging on about opening up access to public data for a while. Talis has put its money where its mouth is and helped to fund the PDDL to give organisations a legal framework for...
A bad year for hearts…
I've always found it difficult to blog about truly emotive things. I might get worked up over a technological failing or annoyed about a political situation, but these things are abstractions: I can hold them out and have a look at them. Something held close to my...
Trends and Barriers
|This article first appeared in Nodalities Magazine, CC By + SA For anyone following the Nodalities blog, you may have read some of my recent posts discussing the trends boiling up around Web 3.0 (other buzzwords are available). The Mobile Web and upgraded...
Journalism Needs Data in 21st Century
|This first appeared as a guest post on ReadWriteWeb, republished with kind permission Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have to...
Democracy and the Web: the UK gets it while America tries to control it.
I read yesterday that twitter has been banned from the White House. In the post, Marshall Kirkpatrick joked that this could be a reason we haven't seen much from Obama's twitter stream recently. I must admit however, my initial reaction was sympathetic with the White...
WordPress Woes
So, Wordpress 2.8 is great! I love the interface, the drag/drop, the ajaxed admin area and loads of other features. Unfortunately, it's also broken. My problem occurs when I update plugins. Whenever a WP plugin needs updating, the automated system has failed to...
Britain 2.5
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities It's hardly new for this blog or our community to cover issues of open access and making information useful for users. But, what if we were to begin speaking in terms such as: "A call for...
Web two dot oh plus one, in the cloud, with bells on…
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities The tech world is telling a story about the Web and computing, and the mainstream media seem to be catching on. They're hearing about clouds, wikis, and the history of the World-wide Web. The...
A Good Week for RDFa
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities With the unveiling of Google's RDFa support and discussions from the UK's Central Office of Information around using RDFa in their job sites, there has certainly been a lot of coverage of RDFa...