Philip John

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  • How the embedded tech revolution has already started

    I wrote recently about how I considered the whole wearable tech phenomenon to be a bit of a misnomer as projects like Google Glass will be superceded by embedded tech. Well, this news from Google-owned Motorola confirms that. A pill that’s sits in your stomach, powered by stomach acids and acting as a authenticator, and…

  • WordPress – can it cope to power a whole council’s main website?

    Thanks for writing this up, Simon! Seeing as I work with the folks at WPMU DEV (who make the Network Theme) I can answer the licensing question… It’s GPL licensed so once you’ve downloaded it you can do as you please within the confines of the GPL, just as you can with WordPress itself. For…

  • I commented on Council meetings – blogging and web-casting

    I’ve advised councils on this and found that their main concern is representation – they don’t want the words of councillors or officers taken out of context. When I approached Lichfield District Council about filming their meetings for hyperlocal site Lichfield Live, they welcomed me with open arms on the condition that the video was…

  • Council meetings – blogging and web-casting | Local Democracy

    I’ve advised councils on this and found that their main concern is representation – they don’t want the words of councillors or officers taken out of context. When I approached Lichfield District Council about filming their meetings for hyperlocal site Lichfield Live, they welcomed me with open arms on the condition that the video was…

  • I commented on Arrested for filming a public council meeting

    Excellent deconstruction of events. You’ve strayed from saying anything more than the council and Police “should be ashamed” but isn’t it a bit more serious than that? As more and more community bloggers are attempting to hold power to account shouldn’t the decisions made by the council and Police here be challenged? Otherwise, is the…

  • Panopticlick says I’m 1 in 1,479,031 and I’m glad!

    Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,479,031 tested so far. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 20.5 bits of identifying information. via panopticlick.eff.org Wow, that’s very unique! I’m really chuffed. Now ad services can monitor what I look at online and serve up ads that…

  • Birmingham Police live-tweet raid

    via storify.com

  • Usability fail: 14 seconds to click on a link

    View on screencast.com » via screencast.com Usability fail. 14 seconds to click on one link. Sure it looks nice, but it doesn’t bloody work!

  • Reason enough for Murdoch’s takeover of BSkyB to be blocked

    There has been no mention of the many victims of hacking who have started legal actions against its parent company, News International. via guardian.co.uk This straight-to-the-point piece by Roy Greenslade shows just how obviously the Murdoch bias runs through News International. He promised The Times would remain balance when he bought that. Now he’s promising…