Think open data is just the realm of geeks? Not in Lichfield…
This is partly the reason why I love Lichfield so much. Our council CEO recently joined Twitter and was last night tweeting (much revered) webmaster, Stuart Harrion; Where else do you get a council chief exec tweeting her webby on a Sunday evening about the Open Government License?! Fantastic!
Read MoreThere is no web 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0
This is deliberately similar to my first Posterous post, “There is no new vs. old media“… There is no web 1.0 or web 2.0 or even web 3.0. There is only the evolving web. I despise the use of the phrase “web 2.0″ when it relates to web design, for example – it implies that it [...]
Read MoreFree your post code!
Today, Ernest Marples Postcodes was shut down by Royal Mail. The service enables great sites such as PlannngAlerts.com and The Straight Choice as well as many others. The action is stifling digital innovation in the UK and really needs to be freed up. So, in order to combat this let’s free up the postcode data [...]
Read MoreA short note for Mr Stott before he comes to see us all…
There’s plenty of discussion going on in Government about putting data out and what to put out and how to put it out and all that nonsense. Especially in local government. It sounds like there’s concern that releasing data isn’t good enough and that government has a responsibility to put that data into a format [...]
Read MoreGovernment need to get relaxed about IT procurement
At yesterday’s inaugural Lichfield Social Media Café the conversation turned to local government e-petitions. Will Perrin pointed out that local gov have issues using an open-source system like the Number 10 petitions system because of restrictive IT contracts. The U.S. is again making progress in this area, by launching Apps.gov (hat-tip to Dave Briggs) which [...]
Read MoreIs Google AdSense really that bad, or are advertisers failing themselves?
From the Keep It Simple Stupid department…. Google’s contextual advertising doesn’t get a lot of love from anyone; publishers or advertisers. Publishers slam the low revenues and advertisers are disappointed with the high-cost, low-return they seem to get when choosing to advertise on the content network. Having spent years managing campaigns through Google’s AdWords program [...]
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