Open government, data and transparency
While working on Siôn Simon’s push for there to be a directly elected Mayor for Birmingham I contributed an ideas paper around the possibilities for a more open system of government inRead More…
While working on Siôn Simon’s push for there to be a directly elected Mayor for Birmingham I contributed an ideas paper around the possibilities for a more open system of government inRead More…
After moving down to Oxford I did an update of my Birmingham Emotions conversational psychogeography project. That’s now quite simple as I have built a ‘happy monitor’ that can centre anywhere. I’mRead More…
I’ve been supporting the Yes campaign for an elected mayor in Birmingham, and one of the big issues is awareness that the referendum is even happening (one poll said less than 40% knew)Read More…
"If the reaction of the blogosphere and Twitterati to Keenan's sudden death are reliable indicators, every one of their four studio albums should have been worldwide No 1s. Blur's Graham Coxon calledRead More…
I’ve been running a, very rough, scrape of the Birmingham (UK) based interweb for ’emotional wellbeing’ since April of 2008. Simply put a script running twice a day read in Tweets, newsRead More…
I was interviewed some time ago over email by Paul Bradshaw for a series on people who had started or were running (hyper-) local blogs. It's up now on Online Journalism Blog,Read More…
This Thursday (27/5) at 7:45pm at the wondrously refurbished Midlands Arts Centre, I’m taking part in a debate on — breath — social media and globalisation. It’s billed as: “Expert Jon Hickman (Birmingham CityRead More…
I was asked to talk about Birmingham, and so I did: Here are the slides and my recording of the audio for the I gave on Friday at Greenbelt. Birmingham Its NotRead More…
I'm speaking a the Greenbelt festival in Cheltenham, three times (which came as a shock). I've not written anything to say yet, but it will be something along these lines. I'm mainlyRead More…