Author Archives: take21

Paul Krugman: the attack on US Social Security, an invented crisis http://nyti.ms/dwJ2Iy # Update by @OrdnanceSurvey: blog: What the PSMA really means, Derived Data & Google http://bit.ly/dDb5le #GIS #maps (via @epsiplatform) # ICO warns coalition on benefit fraud plan http://bit.ly/bqDYxQ # Reuters: Inside Greece's war on tax evaders http://bit.ly/9Tt90V #

Ushahidi: giving citizens the power to put news on the map http://bit.ly/cz7QJ2 (via @JoshHalliday) # Monitor events & visualise on a map: Crowdmap from Ushahidi http://crowdmap.com/ # Council spending on websites: find out how much they spent. As a spreadsheet http://bit.ly/br0j7u (via @guardiantech) # Google/Verizon 'legislative framework proposal for an open Internet' by J.Zittrain http://bit.ly/bDh2lz […]

The Guardian: how 'ideas wreckers' turned The Spirit Level into a political punchbag http://bit.ly/cohON1 # Spirit Level authors respond to critics http://bit.ly/bUgjF1 #

Why should companies be allowed to sue for libel? http://bit.ly/aQK7Ib #LibelReform (via @jackofkent) # Improve media standards with journalism warning labels http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/ # Paper: The evolution of #OpenStreetMap coverage in England http://bit.ly/9P13Y4 new #openaccess journal # Useful sites to get you using data in journalism http://bit.ly/deLn4J #ff @DataMinerUK & blog http://bit.ly/bv52q8 #

Right, let's get @psychemedia promoted: crowd sourced promotion case form http://bit.ly/bAHxZa (via @lesteph) #

RT @lornaparsons: 83 delegates have signed up for Be2Camp Brum (1 week today) – quick http://bit.ly/dxea9z (via @daveharte) #

2010 Merrill Lynch Bank of America: the good news about arts funding cuts http://bit.ly/b8kbp6 # 2009 Merrill Lynch Bank of America bailout: Pro Publica http://bit.ly/amJKtj BBC news http://bit.ly/c4iUxZ # OpenScholar – http://bit.ly/cdwRnv "web site-creation package for the academic community." #education #drupal (via @glynmoody @lisah) # British government moves to dramatically cut public funding for the […]

Kanye tweets-as-New Yorker cartoons "egocentric, whiny, and use a lot of exclamation points." http://j.mp/9jgqUO (via @NiemanLab @kellymcb) # Crowdsourcing "Whitehall regarded the process largely as an endorsement of what it was already doing." http://bit.ly/bJp8Cg # Linked and open data in local government. Discuss: http://bit.ly/clmpXD from @ingridk # A Local Spending Data wish… granted: feat the […]

Flipboard changes the way we use Twitter http://ff.im/oCE1T (via @mfenner) < and research papers # eBook Libraries and DRM http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=2305 (via @iand @dfflanders) # Eight hypotheses around open learning http://bit.ly/baVL2W from @davecormier (via @daveowhite, @GrahamAttwell @ostephens) #

Food: what does the average American consume in a year? Infographic: http://zqi.me/aKtkLb via @heidigoseek @randfish @avinashkaushik) #