Several UK hyperlocal sites inlcuding my own in Kings Cross have suddenly found themselves in the Google News part of search results. I noticed it in today’s google alert other established hyperlocals (Greener Leith, Bourneville Village, Hedon Blog, Connect Cannock) report inclusion even though they have never applied to be in Google news with it’s pernickety [...]
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Developments in UK hyperlocal scene
It’s a great few days for the UK hyperlocal scene as several blue chip organisations reveal new projects. Innovation funders NESTA and the Technology Strategy Board are bringing forward schemes to support new developments in hyperlocal content services and platforms/technology. A NESTA scheme to invest in new content services and a cracking landscape review of [...]
Charities and #opendata – BIG, Nominet Trust, NCVO event
Our good friends at Nominet Trust organised an event with BIG and NCVO today to help small UK charities start to navigate their way around the open data landscape. It was great to see about 100 small charities in the room, the event was 100% over subscribed. It was very apt that a charity that [...]
Justice Wide Open – the collision between uncodified open justice and the law of data protection and copyright #oj_city
Judith Townend organised a fascinating conference at City University on open justice and modern media (programme pdf) . It was great to see some real heavy hitters like Geoffery Robertson QC and Hugh Tomlinson QC speaking up for open courts and open access to information about what goes on there. I have had an interest [...]
Open data – forward strategy
A few people from central government have asked to talk to me recently about open data as they look at their strategy beyond legislation. I thought I would write down repeated themes to save on more meetings. The conversation is normally about how data can be used for the public good as opposed to, say [...]