Author: Ben Werdmuller
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The Edinburgh Festivals API: a case study in innovation
I was the inaugural Geek in Residence at the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab, working with Rohan Gunatillake and the Edinburgh Festivals on open data and digital accessibility. Here’s a video from Rudman Consulting for AmbiTIon Scotland about the Festivals API portion of the project:
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Ani DiFranco’s crowdsourced video for “Which Side Are You On?”
It’s nice to see my favorite musician embrace social media a little more: Here she is on Twitter and Facebook. I came to the project late, and I’m not sure how the photos were contributed; there’s a site at whichside.net, but it’s not hugely inspiring. Nonetheless, the song is, and it’s a great start.
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The river and the tide
Most data on the web comes as a river. Blog posts, photos, Facebook updates, tweets, news stories, videos, cloud files – all lists with the newest at the top. It’s the design pattern of the Internet. Within this design pattern, there are four main places where innovation can occur: How you consume the river. How […]
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CISPA: Act now
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act just passed in the House, during a vote that was moved up a day and staged during the NFL draft. It vastly expands the already onerous act into one that allows significant domestic surveillance. As TechDirt notes: Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity […]