Mobile at Radio 1's Big Weekend
My thinking behind this year’s mobile offering for Radio 1’s Big Weekend was ‘How do we make it spreadable?’. Of course we’d deliver a wap site as usual. This year we also offered some nice and…
My thinking behind this year’s mobile offering for Radio 1’s Big Weekend was ‘How do we make it spreadable?’. Of course we’d deliver a wap site as usual. This year we also offered some nice and…
Here’s the text of an article on the need for constitutional reform that the Guardian have kindly published today:
Parliamentary democracy is on its knees. Lachrymose MPs haunt the corridors of…
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Jay Deragon argues in a short piece on AlwaysOn that social media and related tools are generating a new currency that is created by the propagation of your conversation and its… |

MySociety has given us a sneak peak at Mapumental, a map app that lets you pivot on travel-time, “scenicness”, and house-price in the London area. Just enter a postal code and if…
I don’t think I could improve upon M.J. Rosenberg’s summary of what the meaning of the Obama speech would be to the Mid East. Clearly it was directed at that audience and its reception…
Some people never grow up. Some people wait to have children so that they can become kids again. When Hillel Coopermans’s young ones were four he began his family’s Lego collection. This…
At Google I/O this morning, DeWitt Clinton announed Google Web Elements, a new simple interface layer to Google Ajax APIs. The goal is to make bringing Google features to other sites as easy as…
An idea is making the rounds and appearing in articles like this New York Times piece, and it goes roughly thus: the age of the small inventor is over because to work on stuff that matters…

By John Vidal
Wales today laid out radical plans to make it one of the most energy- and resource-efficient countries in the world within a generation.
The government development…

Jiggery Pokery’s window display, as viewed from inside YCN’s new studio/gallery/library space
The Young Creative Network (YCN) has opened its newly renovated headquarters at 72…
Politicians have always been self-trackers. In the flow of political action, you need a notebook just to keep track of people’s names. But when a recent political controversy was resolved by…
The document-sharing site Scribd has launched a new “Scribd Store” selling view and download access to documents and books. As part of the launch, there are now more than 650 O’Reilly ebooks now…
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Nokia’s IdeasProject site features a video interview with Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, where he argues that that communications technology is leading us back to the kind of… |
As long as I’ve know Jack Schulze, he’s been working with maps. The first one I remember was a way of mapping Barbican, which is a three dimensional architectural maze of a housing and cultural…
It’s not often a new kind of map perspective is invented, but this one by Here & There looks new to me. It’s an ingenious blend of 3D and overhead orthogonal. The “bent” perspective is…