Just recently there has been a lot of talk within London on the topic of Social Media from the traditional press publications. To me, I feel that these publishers are starting to feel threatened and afraid. Threatened by the transparency and use of social media. Afraid of how it is already and will affect their [...]
On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 I will be attending Ignite London‘s first event as a speaker on the topic of Open Data. This talk will be my first public talk to a crowd of professionals here in London and the inspiration has came from the individuals who have inspired me – specifically David Eaves and [...]
Throughout lives of many we all eventually are inspired. As a little kid, many want to grow up and become an Astronaut, The President or even a CIA Spy. Many individuals will not exceed at becoming what our parents believed as just childish dreams. However, for myself – I dreamed about becoming a Information Technology [...]
Recently and due to many of discussions here in London around Open Data there is still a lot of confusion about what it exactly is. It appears that many believe that when open data activists like myself, use the term open data we are essentially referring to open source. This is not true and most [...]
Last week in the morning on my way to the office I read an article in Joe Belanger‘s column on the London Free Press website. The article titled Twitted away, but are real voters actually tweeting? back? not only grabbed my attention but also others here in the community as well. Jeff and Lindsay also [...]
