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I’ve already blogged about the Leveson Inquiry’s disturbing habit of releasing evidence as scanned in PDFs.
I had a suggestion from digital journalist Kevin Anderson
Google Docs has an annoying 2MB limit for uploaded PDFs. However, I’ve taken the first half of Rebekah Brooks’ witness statement and run them through the OCR [...]
For reasons best known to themselves, certain sections of the entertainment industries seem to believe that bolting the stable door shutting down The Pirate Bay will stop all piracy.
It’s as though they think that people won’t be able to use a proxy, circumvent the Cleanfeed block, or simply use a search engine [...]
I’ve been listening to the Leveson inquiry. A large part of the exchanges seem to go like this:
Jay: Turning to page 51.
Witness: Which bundle?
Jay: 1606.
Witness: 1660?
Leveson: No, the page after.
Jay: Paragraph 7.
Witness: I don’t have a paragraph 7.
Jay: Ah, I [...]
On Thursday, I attended my first TeaCamp. It’s a mini-meetup for UK Gov folk doing interesting digital things.
These are some random jotterings based on the discussions both at the event and at BeerCamp afterwards. All conversations were under Chatham House Rules.
Social Media is a problem for all organisations – whether public [...]
Having sex is pretty good fun, isn’t it? I enjoy it. I dare say you enjoy it. But, tell me, is it really appropriate for me to associate your products with having an erect penis?
You see, being a heterosexual male, I’m biologically predisposed to be sexually stimulated by images and videos of women in [...]
The Telegraph’s headline screams “Christians have no right to wear cross at work, says Government“!
Personally, I think it’s good that the Government is standing up for secular values. I also like the cognitive dissonance which this case must be causing the right-wing as it seems to be about the religious right using the [...]
(Unlike most “open letters” this one was sent to my MP using the fantastic WriteToThem. I’ve added hyperlinks for context.)
Dear Jonathan Lord,
I want to thank you for highlighting the inadequacy of South West Trains service from Woking. As commuters for four years, my wife and I are sick and tired of [...]
The lovely people from UK Gov Camp have put up some of the videos from the barcamp.
Here’s me chatting about mobile and the WordPress Mobile Pack.
UKGovcamp 2012: WordPress & mobile (Sat 21st, 2pm) from Steph at Helpful Technology on Vimeo.
See my blog post about the day.
[...]
As per the meme, here are my 20 points on Gov Camp UK.
Sign up early.
I dawdled and so was only able to get a ticket for Saturday. I feel like I missed out on a lot of interesting conversations.
BarCamps should be recorded for posterity.
I was tweeted an interesting link the other day – We Don’t Make Demands. They have a set of posters for the “Occupy Movement” which incorporate QRpedia codes.
These posters were designed by participants at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City. They are in the public domain. You are welcome [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, we’ve just had solar panels installed!
Because of Greg Barker MP’s idiotic decision to scrap the Feed In Tariff with only six weeks’ notice – we’ve had to get this done in rather a rush.
Thanks to Angi and Philip at Sunny Future Solar, we [...]
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