The Where Do You Think You’re Going..? conference about ‘Digital Transport’ was held at Hoult’s Yard in Newcastle last week and I was one of the attendees. The event was split into four main parts, with a few bits of housekeeping stuff chucked in at the start – an introduction to Hoult’s Yard, a bit [...]

After Parliament has published the MPs expenses claims in the greatest of detail, there would seem to have been no need for the Telegraph to publish any more information. Unfortunately, and presumably in order to save the taxpayer money, the printer used by Parliament appears to have printed huge black splodges over most of the [...]

Hmm. I appear to be my own boss. This is not exactly through choice; it’s because the recession has led to my employer feeling obliged to give me a month’s notice. After the initial bit of feeling somewhat shell-shocked, and saying things on the phone like “uh-huh. uh-huh” without really making a great deal of [...]

This plainly wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be a discussion about different methods by which councils could crowdsource policy ideas and information, and the various pros and cons of doing so. I felt somewhat conned therefore when it appeared to be very much a sales [...]

Have you ever heard of the village in South Ayrshire called “Mossblown”? No, neither had I. At least until @cole007 mentioned it’s wikipedia entry. So I went to have a look. And it reminded me somewhat of my Marouane Chamakh Wikipedia Adventure, where I traced the entertaining history of edits to Marouane Chamakh’s Wikipedia entry. [...]

For my second social media session in a row (there were generally four or five sessions going on at any one time so you had to pick the ones that were either most interesting or most relevant to yourself), Ingrid Koehler (@IngridK) led us through how, and what, Councillors should be doing with social media, [...]

I’d read Stuart Maconie’s book Pies and Prejudice where he went around the North of England and talked about what the North of England actually had to offer, and how it was really a nice place, and that prejudiced Southerners who thought of it as just flat caps, whippets, and derelict industrial estates were miles [...]

This session was basically asking whether Local Authorities were listening to what their residents (and indeed other people) have had to say about them on social media platforms (that’s twitter, facebook and the like for those of you not used to buzzword bingo). I chose to attend this session because it’s something I’ve already discussed [...]

…I feel slightly nauseous myself, having just used a Bon Jovi song title, but it’s perhaps the most one I could think of for this quotation I came across. To set the scene: the article talks about drugs used as a legal ‘high’ — stuff like Salvia, amyl nitrate and isobutyl nitrate, which do not [...]

Imagine a situation where the human brain can be copied; where the thoughts and memories of one person can be transplanted into another. Now imagine that when you go to sleep the you that is you dies, and a recreation of that person wakes up the following morning. And the person who woke up the [...]