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15Sep/10

Hyperlocal voices: Jon Bounds of Birmingham: It’s Not Shit

15 September 2010del.icio.usbirminghamuk, hyperlocal, interview, paulbradshaw, workJon Bounds

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…

26Aug/10

Synonyms For Churlish : An open letter to the marketing dude at the National Theatre who posted 'c–t' to their Twitter account

26 August 2010del.icio.ussocialmedia, twitter, workJon Bounds

A lovely post about the nonsense that is perpetuated about Twitter accounts being "hacked" when it's either something people regret or an honest error. [link]

28Jul/10

Kristine Lowe: Do you remember back when revealing an opinion could get you fired?

28 July 2010del.icio.usjournalism, privacy, socialmedia, workJon Bounds

A great examination of what I referred to as the public/private problem. Well worth a read. [link]

05Jul/10

Jon Bounds is not impressed by Nick Clegg’s Your Freedom « Labour Uncut

5 July 2010del.icio.usconsultation, politics, work, yourfreedomJon Bounds

There are blog posts pulling apart the new Your Freedom website, but this is mine. [link]

13Jun/10

Clever politicians are using the social web to make humanity scaleable, says Jon Bounds « Labour Uncut

13 June 2010del.icio.uscorybooker, socialweb, workJon Bounds

At the Personal Democracy forum in New York I was very impressed with how Mayor of Newark Cory Boooker is using the social web to engage people. Here's a short article IRead More…

01Jun/10

Looking ahead at open, public data- Digital Birmingham

1 June 2010del.icio.usBirminghamCityCouncil, data, workJon Bounds

Good post from Si Whitehouse on some issues of public data release: "What will we do if members of the public form groups and use the newly open data to question theRead More…

19May/10

So just what is Five Minute Mentors? | We Share Stuff

19 May 2010del.icio.usdigitalinclusion, education, fiveminutementors, mentoring, wesharestuff, workJon Bounds

A good (and quick) explanatory video about the online mentoring system we (We Share Stuff) are developing. [link]

19May/10

Jon Bounds on the half-appearance of the internet election « Labour Uncut

19 May 2010del.icio.uslabour, politics, socialmedia, workJon Bounds

"it was never going to be a simple case of joining one Facebook Group over another. The web can handle nuance, even if our electoral system can’t." A piece I've written forRead More…

30Mar/10

The State of the Internet Operating System – Tim O'Reilly

30 March 2010del.icio.uscloud, computing, internet, oreilly, web, workJon Bounds

Tim O'Reilly on the web as a platform, moves toward "the cloud" aren't the half of the debate – there's a battle for who will control the low level services on theRead More…

19Jan/10

Huge list of tools for visualising data

19 January 2010del.icio.usdata, infographics, information, software, tools, visualisation, visualization, workJon Bounds

When people talk "mash-ups" they often really mean interesting ways of viewing data. This is a huge list of mostly free tools for doing that visualisation. [link]