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I flicked through a lot of pictures taken at etech on flickr , and the ones that drew my attention were taken by, or taken of, people i knew. When pictures were unlabelled, especially if i didn’t recognise people in other pictures taken by the same person, i gave less attention to the pictures i […]

Come to the World Summit on Free Information
Infrastructures in London, October 1-2nd 2005!

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 […]

Recently i was doing some research on the re-use of Listed Buildings . buildings of historical interest which have legal protection - in East London. So, i thought, i’ll download the list of listed buildings in Tower Hamlets, and then i’ll… Then, i hit the brick wall that is public sector information policy, very hard.
To […]

Later i talked to dngnand about journalling, and he showed me a hidden blog where his cvs commit notes are made available in html and RSS. We also talked about literate programming, and his idea of using wiki markup as a way to write literate programs. i enjoyed reading knuth’s original article on literate programming, […]