During its two-week debut, a mobile application showing real-time locations for Sydney Buses (NSW) received more than 200,000 views. The app used data from the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority, released for in February for an “app day.” Unfortunately for developer Ben Hosken, the RTA decided to withdraw its public data feed, andRead… Read more »
If you’re currently either out of work and looking, or if there’s a particular organization you want to work for, consider spying on their career site located within the organization’s website. Let me explain. You are on the organization’s website, and you click the link to their employment page. Locate the career opportunities they haveRead… Read more »
There is apparently some small amount of evidence to show that I was in fact at LocalGovCamp on Saturday I paid for the accommodation and train fare out of my own money, not because the council didn’t want to pay, but because I actually wanted to pay for it myself (maybe some people think thisRead… Read more »
I’ve been a big fan of James Gardner‘s work on innovation for a while now. His blog is a great read and his Little Innovation Book is a fantastic run down of the things you need to know. His new book is going to be called Sidestep and Twist and it’s main point is thatRead… Read more »
Support and encouragement !=backslapping. But it’s a fine line. This morning I have been reading @simonjgrays excellent post on such matters over here and much thought has been provoked. I am not the most confident of people. Way back at the beginning when I was very unsure of myself, the support of others was absolutelyRead… Read more »
At the Interactivism event in London. Hack days are proliferating. These days are designed to turn open data into useful things. Getting a bunch of developer talent into a room and turning open data into a working prototype by the end of a day or two-days. They may be attached two a wider event, likeRead… Read more »
Saturday’s LocalGovCamp was a marvellous day, entirely thanks to the superb organisation of Digital Birmingham’s Simon Whitehouse and Sammy Williams; and of course the 130-odd people who turned up on the day, giving up the best part of their weekends to talk about work. Also: thanks to the great sponsors who made the event aRead… Read more »
Timothy B. Lee of the Princeton University Department of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) has posted What Gets Redacted in Pacer?, on the CITP’s blog, Freedom to Tinker. In this post, Mr. Lee reports on research respecting documents from the U.S. federal courts’ PACER database. Using customized software, Mr. Lee —Read… Read more »
A quote from my blog at: http://children-in-virtual-classroom.blogspot.com/ “I am a teacher in a [community] (land of many lost families) who is very desirous of establishing an intergenerational link for my class. I think a large part of the problem our children and our society face is a sense of ‘rootlessness’. … I plan to devoteRead… Read more »
The other night my sister-in-law was visiting. She and my husband are in the same trade – tertiary education – so naturally they spend a lot of time talking shop. The internal politics, the slipping standards, and the cheating. Oh, the cheating! Or plagiarism. Or sloppy referencing. Or as seems particularly popular these days, justRead… Read more »