Archive for September, 2005
September 22nd, 2005
Woo! look! Parliament.gov.uk lives!
It seems to be a day for old dogs to wake up.
Since 1998, when I first started researching parliament’s online activity, I’ve been badgering everyone I’ve ever met who might be in a position to make it happen, to make parliament.gov.uk point at parliament.uk . I blogged about it in February 2003
They’ve finally done […]
September 22nd, 2005
government to launch postcode-based local portal
It’s about the 7 year anniversary of the launch of upmystreet, and the Cabinet office has just made the latest of a long line of announcements that they’re finally going to pull their finger out and do something like an official version. I always maintained that if the government did it’s job properly, UMS […]
September 13th, 2005
retrofitting geodata to wikipedia
Matthew Somerville and the Mysociety people have surpassed themselves, again.
Placeopedia will take you far less time to understand, enjoy and contribute to than it would for me to explain. Genius.
September 1st, 2005
I just got 24 Mb broadband!
I pre-registered with Be Unlimited a few months ago, and then completely forgot about it. Then, a couple of weeks ago, I got an email from their MD, Dana Pressman. Dana and I worked on a little startup way way back ago when I was at Virgin and she was at Sapient, (before […]