For years I was a BlackBerry fanboy. I remember snatching a departing colleague’s 6710 and lying to the IT department that I was authorised to have my email on my phone. I never looked back. Despite a brief flirtation with the Nokia N95 – I was a BlackBerry Boy through and through. Until this happened. [...]
A quick report on OpenTech 2010 – the London event for geeks interested in Government data, openness and generally doing good things with tech and data. I attended last year’s event which inspired me to create my “VoteUK” service for the 2010 general election. I had considered doing a talk about the trials and tribulations [...]
ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET* *One plate only, limit of half a sausage per person, no refills, persons weighing over 75Kg will have to pay a supplement, does not include ice-cream. Doesn’t really seem fair, does it? The Internet industry loves to abuse the word “Unlimited” – the mobile industry is particularly bad. Despite complaints [...]
VoteUK is no more. In order to precisely show you where your electoral registration office was, I needed to take its postcode and covert it to latitude and longitude. That’s the service Ernest Marples provided. A few days ago, the Post Office – in their infinite wisdom – set their legal dogs on those running [...]
My Humm Energy monitor is now fully set up. It’s been churning away gently admonishing me for going over my kWh allowance for the day. As I mentioned in the unboxing – there’s an integrated 2GB SD card for the Duet to record the energy usage. As the trial progresses, I should be able to [...]
Tim Berners-Lee has made a call for governments to open up their data. Indeed, Tim’s been appointed by the UK government to do just that. His central thesis is that we, the taxpayers, have paid for government research and data – we should be able to access it. Easy, free and unfettered access to raw, [...]
I was deeply honoured to be asked to present the keynote address at the Mobile Data Association’s “Monetising The Mobile Internet in Tough Times“. I was a last minute stand-in for Henry Stevens of the GSMA. You can download the day’s presentations directly, but as slides only tell half the story, I’ve written a brief [...]
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