Adrian Short
Some more facts about SpotlightOnSpend for FullFact.org
A website dedicated to getting behind the spin decides to take Spikes Cavell's word that they're doing a great job on council spending data transparency.
8 July 2010 5:05 am http://bit.ly/d0aJVB
Digital simulacra and the iPad human interface guidelines
This was originally posted as a comment to an article in UX Magazine about the iPad human interface guidelines. I was reminded by it today by this blogpost by Ben.geek.nz about the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 UI design. While I haven’t seen a WP7 in the flesh it looks as if it may come closer [...]
17 June 2010 7:56 am http://bit.ly/duMyj3
Philippa Stroud’s statement regarding The Observer’s story
I have just received an email from Philippa Stroud confirming the following statement from her in response to this story in the Observer: “I make no apology for being a committed Christian. However, it is categorically untrue that I believe homosexuality to be an illness and I am deeply offended that The Observer has suggested [...]
2 May 2010 8:29 am http://bit.ly/9CMjsi
How to lie with statistics, Liberal Democrat style
Analysing a dodgy bar chart supporting the Lib Dems' bogus claims about Labour support in Cardiff North.
27 April 2010 9:49 am http://bit.ly/drDwDn
It’s easier to mash than to filter
A common social media dilemma solved: Imagine you’re running social media for a public library service. You’ve got ten libraries in the service and you want to use Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. How many accounts do you need? The simplest approach, for you, is just to have one account on each service. You might have [...]
12 March 2010 2:42 pm http://bit.ly/aRShsa
Why councils shouldn’t run Google AdSense ads
Shortly after Nottingham City Council presented at the Google local government conference last year and announced their £15K windfall from AdSense, I took a close look at their site to see what kinds of ads were being served and how they were presented. Variously, I found numerous ads that seemed to act against the direct [...]
25 February 2010 6:24 am http://bit.ly/cqQVUn
How ebooks will replace printed books
Do you remember when film photography was ubiquitous and consumer digital cameras were just starting to come onto the market? (Worryingly, there will be readers of this blog that won’t.) At the time, there was any amount of commentary from the tech boosters who said that of course digital photography would supplant film soon enough. [...]
3 February 2010 12:52 pm http://bit.ly/cyo620
Why wouldn’t you want an Apple iPad on your coffee table?
The Apple iPad isn't just the first credible device in a new category -- it's leading the way towards a world of elegant, specialised computers.
28 January 2010 6:54 am http://bit.ly/9jpBT9
Can you be sued for gritting pavements if someone hurts themselves? Ask the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
So you decide to do the community-spirited thing and help to clear ice and snow from your public street. Then someone slips over and hurts themselves. Can you be sued? John McQuater, president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers might be able to help. According to the Telegraph: Legal experts said home owners could [...]
10 January 2010 8:00 am http://bit.ly/6tjetc
What’s the point of a tweeting mobile library?
Last week I launched @SutMobLib, a Twitter account that tweets the location of Sutton’s mobile library in real time. No, I’m not sitting here all day sending messages. A program does that automatically. Every time the library gets to a new stop it posts up its location. The utility of such a thing isn’t immediately [...]
17 December 2009 10:46 am http://bit.ly/6QCyYA
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