Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
crowd funding
Bobbie Johnson – making Matter matter About a year ago – he got pissed off. He came from The Guardian which has a “troubled” relationship with profit. Why does the meaty, good in-depth investigative stuff he likes not really exist online? Why does it need paper subsidy to make it work. And
Panel * Greg Barker MP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Barker], Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change * Caroline Lucas [http://www.carolinelucas.com/], Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion * Norman Baker MP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Barker], Under-Secretary of State for Transport GB: Efficiency is a
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/tom.jpg] Tom Steinberg [http://www.mysociety.org/about-tom-steinberg/], founder and director of mySociety [http://www.mysociety.org/] mySociety is a charitable enterprise that exists to make people more powerful by giving them access to democratic process – like being
cities
One of the advantages of often using the RSA House [http://www.thersa.org/house] as my London office is that there are some really excellent lunchtime events in my workplace. Today, Avner de-Shalit [http://www.deshalit.huji.ac.il/], professor of democracy and human rights at the Hebrew University
pipa
Today is a day of protest all over the web, against legislation proposed in the US that many, myself included, believe will do serious damage to the web. Many sites, including [Wikipedia](http://www.wikipedia.org "Wikipedia") and [Boing Boing](http://www.boingboing.net "Boing Boing"
Android
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/scmidt.jpg] Eric Scmidt, the executive chairman of Google kicks off the afternoon session, and he’s backing the conference theme of “social, mobile, local” . Is it just a fad asks Loïc? No, says Schmidt. has been with us
history
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2011/09/twintowers-2061.html] I had a working lunch on [Wardour Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.51419,-0.13456&spn=1.0,1.0&q=51.51419,-0.13456 (Wardour%20Street)&t=h "Wardour Street"
community
It wasn’t just in Clapham that people pulled together in the aftermath of the riots: [via 853 [http://853blog.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/pride-in-woolwich-the-young-people-cleaning-up/] ]
lewisham
Found by Joseph Stashko [https://twitter.com/josephstash/status/100905963061641216]. He’s also got a map of what happened in Lewisham [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=200022106557975951612.0004aa0149e3435e08d83&msa=0&ll=51.46513,-0.00618&spn=0.016095,0.045447] .
community
data journalism
Kevin Anderson: > Yes, we’re now going to have to suffer through lots of ill-informed speculation from columnists. Brace yourself yet again as they take out their favourite axe from the kitchen cupboard and grind away on it just a bit more until the head is gone and they’
blackberry
Mike Butcher, writing on TechCrunch UK [http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/how-blackberry-not-twitter-fuelled-the-fire-under-londons-riots/] : > Over the weekend parts of London descended into chaos as riots and looting spread after a protest organised around the yet unexplained shooting of a man by Police. Of course, there was huge amounts of