Category: Innovation

  • The mindset shift in open government online

    The British Government has launched GOV.UK, a new website that is designed to be the single place online for access to wide-ranging information and other content about government services available to citizens. The new website replaces the public sites Directgov…

  • Experiencing the FT’s #FTDLW12

    I’m spending the day today at the Financial Times headquarters in London, taking part in an employee-focused learning experience that, until I arrived here early this morning, I hadn’t appreciated the full scale of what they’re endeavouring to achieve. The…

  • On target with QR codes

    A technology that’s often criticized as being in a cul-de-sac is QR codes, those little square images that you scan with an app on your smartphone to perform some kind of action. It’s that ‘action’ that’s the focus of criticism…

  • Tweets in the sky at the Ryder Cup

    Golf fans had a gripping experience with the Ryder Cup competition in Chicago this past weekend, with a nail-biting finale that saw the Europeans pip the Americans to the post at the last minute to win the tournament. SiliconRepublic reports…

  • Live blogging comes to WordPress

    [UPDATE: Venturebeat reports that a serious bug exists in this plugin. It seems that the developers created the plugin and tested it on a pre-release version of the next version of the WordPress software. My recommendation: don’t use the plugin…