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FixMySpine

jp.stacey 18 January 2008

FixMyStreet is getting some great press, this time a Guardian article comparing it favourably to Facebook.

Open Knowledge Conference: OKCon, Saturday 15 March

jp.stacey 6 March 2008
If you're going to a conference on open knowledge, it's only fair you tell everyone that.

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.

Orl korrect at OKCon

jp.stacey 16 March 2008
Openness is about more than availability: it's about offering something the way you'd offfer a guest your tray of Ferrero Rocher.

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 what I heard yet.