29Sep/10

Is Birmingham Happy?

29 September 2010future web, geodata, my projects, portfolio, social media, social media work, twitter, web development workanew, birminghamuk, conversational psychogeography, emotion, is brum happy, psychogeography, sentiment analysis, twitter, wormalJon Bounds

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…

10Sep/10

Mayors, badges, and blue plaques?

10 September 2010future web, geodatablue plaques, foursquare, geolocation, heritageJon Bounds

What’s Foursquare for? I think people are still working it out. While the benefits for businesses of being able to target customers and record movement are interesting (and would be much improved withRead More…

25May/10

We know where we are, and is that about all?

25 May 2010future web, geodataboundaries, conversational media, mapitude, mapsJon Bounds

Mapping is about boundaries and scale, watching the recent BBC series about the history of the map you could see how — once the powerful were commissioning — that the placing ofRead More…

05Nov/09

Birmingham Music Map

5 November 2009geodata, my projects, social media workbirmingham music archive, Birmingham UK, geodata, google maps, map, musicJon Bounds

I’m a great supporter of the Birmingham Music Archive, and have long been discussing types of social media and other work that could contribute to their archiving of Birmingham based music andRead More…

02Nov/09

What does hyperlocal mean? And what does that mean for news?

2 November 2009blogging, future web, geodatacommunity, hyperlocal, local newsJon Bounds

Local is local for different people for different reasons — some to do with legislature, economics, transport, facilities, people, even “community” (another word with little definite meaning). Local in newsgathering has beenRead More…

18Sep/09

Geo Attention Mapping by Bookmarking

18 September 2009future web, geodata, my projectsgeo attention data, mysocietyJon Bounds

It’s something I’ve been going on about for a long time, but as an exercise in explaining it quickly I entered it as a proposal in MySociety’s Call for Proposals 2009. Here’sRead More…

09Jul/09

Open data may need to change the way data is collected and stored

9 July 2009future web, geodata, good practiceBirmingham UK, FOI, help me investigate, open dataJon Bounds

Like Nick Booth, I was pretty excited to hear of the results of this FOI request for data about parking fines from Birmingham City Council. Not so much as because I careRead More…

01Jun/09

BrumEmoMap

1 June 2009future web, geodata, social media, twitterconversational psychogeography, emotion, geodata, map, mashup, twitterJon Bounds

A wonderful and quick mash-up of Twitter and Flickr data, mapped with Yahoo, BrumEmoMap is a great example of the first thread of my Conversational Psychogeography idea. It allows people to tagRead More…

27May/09

Conversational Psychogeography — mapping real life with the social web

27 May 2009geodata, my projects, social media, social media workconversational media, conversational psychogeography, psychogeograpyJon Bounds

Psychogeography can be sort of explained as the geography of emotion, the relation between place and feeling. The first attempt to formalise it was in the 50’s by various Lettritsts and whileRead More…

28Jul/08

MyNeighbourhood — crime mapping and a survey

28 July 2008geodatacrime, mappingJon Bounds

Launched today in the West Midlands, MyNeighbourhood.info is a official version of those map mash-ups of crime statistics that have been produced for some time now. The interface isn’t the most intuitiveRead More…