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Noisy neighbourhoods
There was a veritable celebration of new media excellence in public life at last night's New Statesman Awards. TheyWorkForYou were rightly rewarded for their contribution to civic society. My personal favourite of the night was Noise Mapping, which provides interactive maps with noise levels (in decibels). So far, the site provides a postcode search facility in London, so you can find out how noisy your 'manor' is (especially useful if you're moving house).
from : samhintonsmith
6th July 2005
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You read it here first
Bit slow on the uptake here, but The Times has an election blog...featuring (amongst others) none other than former Demos guest blogger David Charter. Worth a read. In the spirit of election-period-induced-fairness, the Guardian also has a designated election blog that you can visit here.
from : duncanoleary
6th April 2005
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Bloggers Unite
I am not reminded often enough of how much we take freedom of expression for granted. It's worth remembering on "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day".Even when you don't go to jail for it, being involved in the information economy means that sharing personal opinions and details is inevitable, which raises serious questions about privacy and security. I think communication across borders and spheres of knowledge is worth the risk. But when monitoring is possible at any time, is it also worth being a...
from : mollywebb
22nd February 2005
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What-do-you-reckon'?
So the good news is that Tom Watson?s blog is back up and running ? and the other news is that he?s asking people who visit the site for their views on which poster the Labour Party should use to respond to Conservative plans to cut taxes should they win the next election.Maybe one day this kind of thing will be used to harness some untapped creativity, rather than simply offering people a choice. What?s that advert, John Craig..?
from : duncanoleary
26th January 2005
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International Internet-Free Day
Genius. The Global Ideas blog is promoting the idea of an international Internet-Free Day. This year it's going to be on a Sunday (which is kind of cheating in this internet addict's opinion) but hopefully it will be a working day next year. Quite how Demos would function, I'm not sure.Must. Stop. Checking. RSS. Feeds.
from : paulmiller
25th January 2005
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Tasty broadband
I have long been confident that Paul's enthusiasm for del.icio.us was misplaced. However, I was completely wrong, as a conversation with an enthusiastic subscriber to our delicious entires proved yesterday. In recent weeks, I have been using our page to store web links that are useful for our Broadband Britons project. Having built up some entries, I can now show visitors to the project page what we are reading about broadband right now. One side effect, though, is that the picture of our...
from : johncraig
21st January 2005
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How to blog like a rockstar
Ever wondered why your postings never get any comments? If so, click here for some advice about how to blog like a rockstar. [via Instapundit]
from : duncanoleary
20th January 2005
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The Demos Collective Brain as of January 2005
As well as Demos Flickr, we've been playing around with a piece of social software called del.icio.us. Basically it's a social version of bookmarks or internet favourites. You'll be able to see on Demos del.icio.us as staff bookmark websites they think are interesting. You can then also see who else is bookmarking the same stuff. There are already heaps of plugins and hacks for del.icio.us. One is extisp.icio.us which shows your del.icio.us tags as a diagram - kind of like a picture of what...
from : paulmiller
5th January 2005
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RSS and government
Peter MacLeod emails in to point to a Wired News story about government agencies using RSS. If you haven't joined the revolution yet try googling for 'download RSS reader' - I use FeedDemon (PC) and NetNewsWire (Mac). The Demos Greenhouse RSS feed is here.
from : paulmiller
17th November 2004
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Open source article
Remember that article I wrote about how far you could take the open source model? Well now we've got a new toy, I thought it was only fair to make it open source itself. When you click through, try the 'edit this page' button on the left.
from : paulmiller
1st November 2004
