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The UK Government (Ministry of Justice) has recently released a new initiative

http://www.buildingdemocracy.co.uk/
Building Democracy is a government initiative to support new and different means for people to address public issues.
It is funded by the Ministry of Justice through the Democratic Engagement Innovation Fund.
They want more people to participate in UK democracy, and want the public to […]

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I came across this excellent short talk by Clay Shirky author of  “Here comes everybody“, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo (22-25 April 2008) about what he terms  ‘the cognitive surplus’ that television (in his opinion mostly sit-coms) has been masking for the past 60 years.

Here is an excerpt:
“I was recently reminded of some reading […]

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Just read a very interesting article by Tim O’Reilly on ‘Open Source and Cloud Computing’
O’Reilly highlights the dangers of proprietary  ‘lock in’ to cloud computing service providers such as Amazon’s S3 and EC2, Google’s AppEngine and Salesforce’s force.com.
O’Reilly asks
Why did the WWW end up with hundreds of millions of independent information providers while centralized sites […]

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I see that top social bookmarking site Del.icio.us has recently launched a redesign of its website and services.

They have organized the site into three main sections: Bookmarks, People and Tags. When you are logged in, these menus give you quick access to your Bookmarks, Network and Tags pages. The My Tags page is a new […]

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