Public & Third Sector
Open Data Alert! ICTY Archive Must be Open to All 2
April 25, 2008: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has left behind a digital archive of immense importance to the future of human rights protection and education. Unless we act now, it may remain closed in the future, but if we can open source the data then future generations will be able to remix and re-analyse one of the Twentieth Century's most important historical archives.
Simple, commodity tools for public consultation
April 15, 2008: Good example of a simple, cheap consultation web site from Ofcom
The Museum and the Zoo 4
March 27, 2008: The market for Enterprise 2.0 is booming. Client attention is high as blog readership and conference attendance figures demonstrate it. Individual actors know it as they see both their turnover and workforce growing. Reports from analysts confirm it. This is...
Challenges and Opportunities for Mainstream Enterprise Social Computing 3
March 21, 2008: The adoption of social tools in the enterprise is accelerating, but if we are to avoid the pitfalls of previous periods of technology innovation, then we need to focus more on addressing concrete business use cases and meeting the needs of second wave adopters. This presentation briefly covers some of the opportunities and challenges we see in the field, and some of the IT culture myths that can sometimes get in the way.
Boring technology can become socially interesting
March 19, 2008: Clay Shirky gave a great talk at the RSA yesterday about his book "Here comes Everybody"
Critical perspectives on Web 2.0 1
March 15, 2008: Deflating the hype bubble? Trebor Scholz and others outline critical perspectives on Web 2.0 in a special issue of First Monday
Quick: press the button for more hugs
February 11, 2008: Greenthing have set up a live hugathon. Go to the site and push the big green button to make real people hug each other. It is all intended to promote this month's action of using body warmth rather than central heating.
Taking the Headshift Lift Express
February 04, 2008: Taking the Headshift LIFT train to Geneva
Le Web 3, Fourth edition
December 19, 2007: Le Web was a great conference to close a year of many events around the world. Here are my brief notes and observations about the event
Blogging Ambassadors
December 16, 2007: Another Foreign Office blogger: Britain's Ambassador to Bosnia
