The morning of the April 1st saw many people being duped by April Fool’s pranks in the newspapers and on the television and radio. For a pretty comprehensive round-up of the mainstream media’s jokes, read journalism.co.uk‘s article April Fools’ Day: Headline hoaxes from the morning’s news. When I saw more and more outrageous stories being told [...]
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Police Crime Mapping Site Goes Live
This morning, well last night actually, www.police.uk went live. Police.uk allows you to look at crime data by place name postcode or address, so really handy if you are looking to move, but also quite a handy content idea for your Hyperlocal site. By entering a postcode you get several views available: Overview Just that, [...]
Reflections on UK GovCamp 2011 and a discussion around online archives #ukgc11
There were some particularly inspiring and thought-provoking sessions at UK GovCamp 2011 last Saturday. The ones I found most enjoyable were: The session on trade unions led by Paul Evans, starting off with a rough aim to make trade unions more open and democratic and ending with ideas for a Rate My Union, Rate My [...]
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Birmingham it’s Not Sh*t, Brighton and Hove News, Communities Online, digbeth is good, JISC, jon bounds, Lloyd Davis, MACE, Mass Observation, Media Archive for Central England, MOCO, Nick Booth, Paul Evans, social media surgery, South West Film & Television Archive, Strandlines, ukgc11, ukgovcamp, will perrin
Interview with Lucie Kerley of the MACE Full Circle project
A little while ago I did a short interview with Lucie Kerley of the MACE Full Circle project. Covering the East and West Midlands regions, it looks to ’realise the potential of films and videos currently hidden away in attics and sheds in your community’ and make them accessible. I spoke to Lucie about how she felt community websites could [...]