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 […]

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 […]