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.

Reservoir #ODCamp dogs.

Several people with backpacks are walking down a narrow path next to a brick wall and a green, leafy area.Several people are walking along a city street lined with modern buildings on a cloudy day.

Did a democracy. Took my daughters - this will be the first general election that they really remember.

A man and two children are smiling for a selfie in front of a building with polling station opening times posted on the door.

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…)

This is a pitch for a Doctor Who episode, not a useful journalism notification…

A notification from The Telegraph states that Ed Miliband is preparing to wage a wind-powered war on the British countryside.

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?

I bet you can guess…