Category Archives: ideas

Politician pin ups – open-licensed pictures, please

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett calls on public bodies to provide open-licensed pictures of politicians and senior officers. Continue reading →

Posted in hyperlocal, ideas, local government, open data, photography, Wikipedia | Tagged accountability, aerial photography, Birmingham City Council, blogging, Bull Ring, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, copyright, Creative Commons, democracy, flickr, free, hyperlocal, journalism, libre, licence, licensing, local government, localgovweb, open data, open licence, opendata, OpenlyLocal, Paul Tilsley, photography, politicians, politics, social media, web, West Midlands Police, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, wikipedia | 16 Comments

Lightning Talks Strike Twice

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Andy Mabbett

I very much enjoyed attending Local Gov Camp North West last weekend. Although it was attended by fewer people than other unconferences I’ve been to (due to people crying off for fear the impending snowpocalypse would leave them stranded in … Continue reading →

Posted in hyperlocal, ideas, local government, microformats, Wikipedia | Tagged BrewCamp, Celebration20, EurekaFestivalOfResources, GLAMCamp, iGLAMsterdam, JohnPopham, LightningTalk, LightningTalks, LocalGovCampNW, microformats, Preston, wikipedia | 3 Comments

Bullet points from UK Govcamp 2012

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Andy Mabbett

Twenty of Andy Mabbett’s thoughts after UKGovCamp 2012. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, local government, open data, tagging, Twitter, Wikipedia | Tagged Anke Holst, beer, Brompton, Dan Slee, Dave Briggs, EdenT, emergency response, flickr, FoI, Freedom of Information, freelance, Glasto for Geeks, Liz Eden, London, London Transport, MabsBrompton, Microsoft, open data, OpenAttribute, Scottevest, social media, Steph Gray, SummerBeth, Terence Eden, trains, twitter, ukgc12, ukgovcamp, unconference, walking, wikipedia | Leave a comment

Extracting contact data from e-mail signatures

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett proposes a simple standard for recording contact data in plain text e-mail sigs. Continue reading →

Posted in annoyances, ideas, microformats, web standards | Tagged email, gmail, google, hcard, idea, metadata, microformat, vcard, vcf | 2 Comments

The 9th and 10th QR Code commandents

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett replies to Terence Eden’s request for commandments for people using QR Codes. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, local government, microformats, web standards | Tagged busses, EdenT, hcard, microformats, nesky999, public transport, QR, QRCode, QRCodes, twitter:user=edent, twitter:user=nesky999, Vanessa Pearce, vcard | 1 Comment

Dan Slee, me, HyperLocal Govcamp West Midlands, BrewCamp, and cake

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett is mentioned in a new blog post by Dan Slee, about HyperLocal Govcamp West Midlands, BrewCamp, and cake Continue reading →

Posted in about me, hyperlocal, ideas, local government | Tagged BrewCamp, cake, danSlee, flickr, GovCamp, hyperlocal, local government, localgovweb, Mike Rawlins, Pezholio, Si Whitehouse, Stuart Harrison, twitter:user=danslee, twitter:user=mike_rawlins, Twitter:user=pezholio, Twitter:user=siwhitehouse, West Midlands, wikipedia | Leave a comment

Improving the already excellent ‘Twitter Blackbird Pie’ WordPress plugin

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett likes the ‘Twitter Blackbird Pie’ plug-in for citing tweets in WordPress.org blog posts, but has some suggested improvements. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, microformats, web standards | Tagged accessibility, Blackbird Pie, blockquote, COinS, hcard, html, idea, metadata, microformats, readability, suggestion, themergency, twitter, twitter:status=66835851316957185, twitter:user=themergency, usability, white space, wordpress | 4 Comments

HashMash: My invention of a new hashtag search tool

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett has invented a new tool for searching for related hashtags. Simon Painter has developed it. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, microformats, tagging, Twitter | Tagged HashMash, hashtags, JFDI, PasteBin, rachelbeer, search, SimonPainter, tagging, Twicket, twitter:status=62867706797490177, twitter:user=@rachelbeer, Twitter:user=pigsonthewing, twitter:user=SimonPainter | 5 Comments

Response to consultation on an open data standard for information about public toilets

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett’s response to The London Assembly Health and Public Services Committee’s consultation on an open data standard for information about public toilets. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, local government, microformats, web standards | Tagged addressing, geolocation, geotagging, London, London Assembly, metadata, open data, public toilets, toilets, vcard | Leave a comment

Category Archives: ideas

Lightning Talks Strike Twice

Extracting contact data from e-mail signatures

The 9th and 10th QR Code commandents

Dan Slee, me, HyperLocal Govcamp West Midlands, BrewCamp, and cake

Improving the already excellent ‘Twitter Blackbird Pie’ WordPress plugin

Response to consultation on an open data standard for information about public toilets

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