Tobias Escher at the OII

Once upon the time Germany and France agreed on an ambitious project to create a new search engine that would let services such as Google and Yahoo look very old fashioned. Apart from the usual keyword searching, users should be able to use images or even videos as query terms and search for similar content [...]

For those of you who are unaware of that, the UK government is currently in a six year reform of transforming its public services for the 21st century (read: the Internet and all the rest). The strategy itself reads:   this strategy’s vision is about better using technology to deliver public services and policy outcomes Unsurprisingly [...]

For those of you who did not realise, it’s a new year now (2007 actually) and I’ve been busy not blogging lately. Coming back to my blog I discovered 42 comments awaiting moderation – my selfish delight at my sudden popularity vanished within milliseconds of realising that it’s all spam (unless you are interested in [...]