Blog Archive 2013 My response to BBC Watchdog: A Chrome plugin for Just Eat Jun 07 2013 Lost the source to my Octopress blog (Ooops) Apr 04 2013 Automated testing with Cucumber and Phantom.js Apr 03 2013 2012 Council Websites: Time for a New Approach to Navigation? Oct 10 2012 Twitter Kills RSS: How to Roll Your Own Feed With Scraperwiki Sep 08 2012 Local GDS: A Skunkworks for Local Government? Sep 04 2012 Take a Screenshot of Any Tweet Using Casper.js Aug 29 2012 Make Your Own Food Safety Twitter Bot With Scraperwiki and Ifttt Jun 21 2012 New Blog, New Beginning! Jun 20 2012 2011 Generating QR Codes Using PHP and the Goo.gl API Jul 25 2011 Using Foursquare in Local Government Feb 21 2011 A Beginner’s Guide to SPARQLing Linked Data (Part 1) Jan 14 2011 Spending Data - Beyond the CSV Jan 14 2011 2010 Grit Bins - Your Help Needed! Nov 12 2010 First Steps to Councils Publishing Their Own Linked Data Sep 06 2010 A Local Spending Data Brain Splurge Aug 02 2010 Further Adventures in SPARQL Jul 09 2010 Ringing Mapping the Changes May 25 2010 The Postcode - Freed! Apr 08 2010 Postcode to Councillor in One Easy Step! Mar 15 2010 Royal Fail Part 3: Response Received (and It Ain’t Good) Jan 22 2010 2009 Open Postcodes - My Letter to the FT Dec 23 2009 An iPhone App in 5 Days? Dec 22 2009 Fixmytweet! Dec 14 2009 Twitter - to RSS or Not RSS? Dec 07 2009 Simple(ish) Routes to Local Authority Open Data? Dec 03 2009 Adventures in SPARQL Part 2 - Now With Added KML! Nov 23 2009 Cautious Optimism O’clock - Ordnance Survey Opening Up Data Nov 17 2009 Barcode Posters - the Second Coming Nov 09 2009 Impossible Possibilities - a Wishlist for Linked Data Nov 04 2009 Who Said Social Media Can’t Save Councils Money? Nov 03 2009 Adventures in SPARQL Oct 21 2009 Open Data Can Work for Councils Too! Oct 16 2009 Royal Mail Calls Striking Workers ‘Whiny’ on Twitter. Sort Of Oct 10 2009 Adventures in Wordpress Plugin Building Oct 09 2009 Royal Fail Part 2: Let’s Do Something! Oct 07 2009 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back - Ernest Marples and the Idiocy of the Royal Mail Oct 05 2009 What Local Authorities Can Learn From the Birmingham City Council DIY Project Sep 28 2009 A Social Media Toolkit for Councils? Sep 17 2009 New Twitter Terms of Service - Bye Bye Bots? Sep 14 2009 In the Event of an Attack… Sep 10 2009 A Few Thoughts on Birmingham City Council’s Website Sep 09 2009 Lloyds Pharmacy Fail - Why Giving Twitter to Interns Is a Bad Idea Aug 26 2009 Data, Mashups and APIs Event in Birmingham #dmapi Aug 20 2009 Lancashire County Council and the Google-isation of Government Aug 19 2009 Ernest Marples PHP Helper Function Jul 28 2009 Local Trends on Twitter Jul 10 2009 The Postcode Freed! (Well Sort Of) Jul 09 2009 Widgetising Local Government Content Jun 26 2009 Press Offices in the 21st Century Jun 23 2009 My Twitter Presentation From #scotweb2 Jun 22 2009 Getting Location in Safari on iPhone OS 3.0 Jun 12 2009 Rate My Teachers and Customer Feedback May 28 2009 My Interview With Liz Azyan About TwitterPlan Apr 08 2009 Twitter + Planning Applications = TwitterPlan! Apr 03 2009 Creating Short URLs With PHP and the TinyURL API Mar 18 2009 Free OUR Data, Sign the Petition Mar 16 2009 A Beginners Guide to Twitter in Local Government Mar 06 2009 Why the Old Media Hate Twitter Feb 23 2009 Thoughts From LGComms New Media Seminar #lgcommsnm Feb 06 2009 Government APIs - Your Help Needed! Feb 03 2009 Oh, Erm Hi by the Way! Feb 02 2009 Mashing Up Planning Data With Google Maps - Part 1.5 Feb 02 2009 Mashing Up Planning Data With Google Maps Jan 28 2009