Garbage collection, in a very real sense
Yesterday’s OKCon 2008 was great fun, if a long day! I’m still digesting the food for thought that the conference provided—many, small courses; over a dozen if you include the more open sessions after the keynotes, and each followed by a sorbet of questions and debate—so I don’t have a great deal to say about [...]
The Open Knowledge Conference takes place in London the weekend after this. Rufus Pollock, who gave a keynote at OGN5, will be introducing a packed programme which covers the principles of free and open information access applied to diverse areas such as education, the environment, transport and academia.
I’m realy looking forward to it, especially in [...]
FixMyStreet is getting some great press, this time a Guardian article comparing it favourably to Facebook. We were lucky to have Tom Steinberg at the fourth Oxford Geek Night, and his plucky lieutenant Matthew Somerville (I may get in trouble for that) back at the third OGN. They’re both fascinating speakers (and I still turn [...]