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Today, like yesterday, I am liveblogging from the National Digital Inclusion Conference.
My posts will start around 11.am and update in real time on this page (read on!). They will include my Twitter tweets and those from the rest of the We Share Stuff team. You can either follow the action on this page or open [...]

Today and tomorrow I am liveblogging from the National Digital Inclusion Conference.
My posts will start around 11.am and update in real time on this page (read on!). They will include my Twitter tweets and those from the rest of the We Share Stuff team. You can either follow the action on this page or open [...]

On Monday and Tuesday (27 & 28 April) I shall be tweeting and liveblogging from the National Digital Inclusion Conference.
Me
Don’t worry too much about how I’m doing it, but do watch this blog for updates on the conference as it unfolds.
If you want to see what other Twitter users are saying about the conference, you [...]

Thanks to Bruce Lawson for sending me this. If you think you have trouble with some UK place names, spare a thought for the poor officials in Massachusetts who have this to contend with.

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Aubergines tough & bitter? Before cooking salt slices on both sides & layer between paper towels. Leave for a while then wash off the salt.

This evening Mark Steadman and I stumbled excitedly over each other to launch our fun new idea: cooking with Twitter.
As a result of the confusion we ended up with different names for the Twitter account and the website, but no matter. All we now have to do is carry it out. Oops.
Alright, so the idea’s [...]

The Local Authority Mapping Collective "aims to get officers from local authorities in the UK collaborating with one another using Google My Maps. It is hoped that this will allow for large sets of mapped data to be made publically available without the need for bespoke software development. This data could then be used on local authority websites, as well as being made downloadable to use in any number of projects." That's great: let's hope it also helps to nudge Ordnance Survey towards opening up their data.

Visit Local Authority Mapping Collective

html5 gallery is a great showcase of HTML5, put together by Richard Clark. He aims both to show how the specification is already being interpreted and implemented, and to help people learn and understand it.

Visit html5 Gallery

Don’t try to make things better when you’re drunk. You’ll only make them worse :-/

I spent the latter half of this afternoon looking for neutral patches of concrete near Birmingham city centre, that would be suitable for a team game. Finding such a place is no mean feat, even in the wastelands of Eastside and Digbeth.
It wasn’t my idea. Nikki Pugh of BARG wants to run a ’social game’ called [...]