Apparently BT have decided that providing us with broadband is a pretty optional thing, so today will be powered by mobile broadband.
Let’s hope it’s up to a Zoom judging session…
It’s time to stop caring what journalists think.
Does a new government open up the chance to refresh the transparency agenda?
A discussion from #ODCamp in Manchester…
Uploading the first of my photos from #ODCamp to Flickr.
The last #ODCamp session liveblog from Matt and I today: with the Microsoft AI CEO saying all web content is “freeware” and usable for training, how do the Open Data community feel about that?
Here’s the pitches from the #ODcamp 9 unconference in Manchester today.
Did a democracy. Took my daughters - this will be the first general election that they really remember.
Blimey. As the other social networks pull away from journalist, Mastodon is embracing it — and even Threads might be warming up to it again.
Interesting times.
(Paradigm shifts always are…)
Why didn’t the 100,000 strong march to restore nature get more coverage?
The suggested answer is depressing: the protestors were too well-behaved.
Escaping tech’s boom/doom cycle requires a nuanced view of risk/reward.
And the global south has something to teach us here.
Guess which party standing in the UK general election made no commitment to do anything about the sewage going into our rivers and seas?
This is the week when the UK changes.
But we’ve very little idea of what it will become…
Church Times reporting on a new CoE report on trust and trustworthiness:
Social media is also touched on in a section on access to information, with the warning that, “through our indiscriminate use of social media we are in danger of becoming stupid in our judgement of where to place our trust.”
Amen.
