There’s dark stuff behind that web page
Thanks to bonkiss http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonkiss/ There has been quite a lot of fuss over the last week about the discovery that Apple apparently store a wadge of location data on your iPhone...
View ArticleEmperor’s new clothes, arab springs and #notw vs the people and open stuff
Way to go Egypt! Thanks to cactusbones http://www.flickr.com/photos/cactusbones/ So what’s that title about? A summer season post, stretching metaphors and rambling a bit. It occurs to me that there...
View ArticlePDC – is anything happening?
A couple of questions in the House of Commons yesterday (surprising that there is time for any government business other than #notw). Thanks to They Work For You we know that Francis Maude and Ed Davey...
View ArticleGeoCommunity 2011 – 2 more days of Love, Peace and Maps, Pt 1
So another GeoCommunity has been and gone, the format has evolved, the new venue at Nottingham is a big improvement and I have to admit to a slight sense of paternal pride that successive conference...
View ArticleA video summary of my recent Giscussions via #InnovateIsrael
I met Yotam, the founder of wibbitz.com at the Innovate Israel event, he was virtually the only person not wearing a suit at a tech conference. His company offers a solution for automatically...
View ArticleHow to amend PAF® licensing?
One suggestion for what to do with the PAF License – thanks to http://www.flickr.com/photos/nohodamon/ for this pic of Crushed Cars Royal Mail just launched a consultation on simplifying the PAF...
View Article“Geohippies want to make a difference through disruption, geo-evangelism and...
A very early picture of a GeoHippy My pal Ed Freyfogle interviewed me for the GeoHipster series while we were in Berlin for wherecamp. I thought it was going to be too long and rambling but the nice...
View ArticleWhen work gets in the way of fun
Gosh, it has been a long time since I wrote anything here! I have been pretty obsessively focussed on a client project for the last 6 months, some of you who know me will know what I have been working...
View ArticleEclectic, geo, fun, beer, talking late into the night – it must be #geomob
If #geomob didn’t exist someone would have to start it, actually Chris Osborne did back in 2008 and then Ed Freyfogle took over from him a few years ago. I don’t think I or any of the hundreds of...
View ArticleWhen politics meet maps there is no right
Old atlases are fun Old school atlases are fascinating, they reflect the ways we learned geography and how we were taught political geography. They are probably the reason that I hated geography at...
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