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 […]

Haiti earthquake appeal

On Tuesday 12 a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Haiti causing near total destruction and widespread loss of life. Estimates of the death toll vary from 30,000-100,000 casualties, with most news agencies picking the figure of 50,000 casualties on the first day. To put this figure into some kind of context, that’s: 10 times the number of coalition […]

Marcus Povey

On Tuesday 12 a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Haiti causing near total destruction and widespread loss of life. Estimates of the death toll vary from 30,000-100,000 casualties, with most news agencies picking the figure of 50,000 casualties on the first day. To put this figure into some kind of context, that’s: 10 times the number of coalition […]