Reporting online terrorists

There was a small ripple around the internet this morning caused by the Home office opening up the Beta terrorist reporting tool. To what extent the reports from this tool are monitored is unclear, but I suspect this will cause more problems that it solves. Even before we consider the rather broad definition the government […]

Marcus Povey

There was a small ripple around the internet this morning caused by the Home office opening up the Beta terrorist reporting tool. To what extent the reports from this tool are monitored is unclear, but I suspect this will cause more problems that it solves. Even before we consider the rather broad definition the government […]

Introducing data.gov(.uk)

Today saw the release of Data.gov.uk, the government data website spearheaded by Tim Berners-Lee which hopes to collate government data and make it available for people to build on. Although it is clearly aimed at developers, it is my hope that innovative and genuinely useful tools will quickly start popping up as entrepreneurs get to […]

Marcus Povey

Today saw the release of Data.gov.uk, the government data website spearheaded by Tim Berners-Lee which hopes to collate government data and make it available for people to build on. Although it is clearly aimed at developers, it is my hope that innovative and genuinely useful tools will quickly start popping up as entrepreneurs get to […]

Akismet plugin for Elgg

I have just written a very small Akismet plugin for Elgg. When enabled and configured, this plugin will scan newly submitted comments of the ‘generic_comment’ annotation class. While spam comments are rarer on Elgg due to the fact that most sites don’t allow anonymous comments, this could be useful for people who are getting spam […]

Marcus Povey

I have just written a very small Akismet plugin for Elgg. When enabled and configured, this plugin will scan newly submitted comments of the ‘generic_comment’ annotation class. While spam comments are rarer on Elgg due to the fact that most sites don’t allow anonymous comments, this could be useful for people who are getting spam […]