civic information, part 1

I was glad i caught the first Open Knowledge Forum last week, featuring developers from theyworkforyou, public whip, iCan and writetothem.
Between them, they have good points and proven use cases for why we just need the raw data, in a structured format, openly available without supplication.

Public information providers save money.
Dropping raw data on a web […]

semantic city

i did a talk, on the theme Semantic City, at the Architecture Association school. This was alongside the very interesting John Bell who has a whole ‘unit’ to help him do interestng things with bluetooth based micro broadcasting, sensors and crowd motion analysis…
it is a story about dispersed information infrastructure, knowledge in the world and […]