Tobias Escher at the OII

No, this post does not refer to the infamous British newspaper that made Mr. Murdoch rich (I cannot even bother to link to these people as Google would count that as a recommendation) but this is about different approaches on visualizing geographical aspects of news. First, there is the BBC which visualizes what are the [...]

The (not so new anymore) e-petitions site of the Prime Minister is all over the news today and Bill was already blogging about it: Tonight saw the deadline for people to register with a petition against road pricing (the long response time seems to be an indicator of the continuing high demand) which was by [...]

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 [...]

There are not too many good news for Berlin these days but hey, it’s still popular. “berlin” is one of the “all time most popular tags” on flickr.com with almost half a million pictures tagged. Judging by it, there does not seem to be much daylight in the city but you can have fun in [...]

An interesting follow up to a recent discussion in our brownbag seminar about how to protect children from “the bad content” on the Internet without regulating them as much as to put them off the net: Private Company Infospace has launched zoo.com, a search engine that aggregates results from ‘Google, Yahoo!, and Wikipedia, as well [...]

So far I did not read too much about the current (and apparently for some time ongoing) discussion about a reform at the University of Oxford although time and again you get some hints that something incredible is going to happen. Well, all of us who are here can easily imagine that an institution that [...]

Today we had very nice Peter M. Shane present the findings of the Virtual Agora Project. This was a three year National Science Foundation funded project designed to establish how to best facilitate citizen deliberation with the use of online tools.summary of project Phase I was a controlled experiment that involved 550 randomly sampled Pittsburghers. [...]

Concerning some recent discussion on which software to use for managing citations (or whether at all), here some information that I gathered during an one hour OUCS session which compared the two standard products (?): Endnote and RefWorks. I email the handout on the list so you can check for yourself but here is a [...]