There’s been a lot of attention given to Dopplr recently. It’s an “online service for frequent travellers”, rather pretentiously created by an “international team of world travellers” to help them meet up when they found themselves in the same city: if you see that someone you know is going to be in the same place [...]

Short post, for a change: just a pointer to the BBC’s Find Listen Label project, allowing listeners to tag sections of radio programmes. Media doesn’t have to presented in atomic, inaccessible chunks anymore: listeners can divide podcasts, programmes, commentaries into chapters that suit their own purposes.

Every now and again something comes up and you think is insanely great. David Bolinsky’s inner life of a cell is just such a gob-smacking-jaw-dropping-beautiful-experience. I have always been a little skeptical about sci-art projects (are they about showing that geeks have souls or is it about sugar on what should be intrinsically interesting anyway?). [...]

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, writing in the Guardian, issues a bold call for us to “recast the political settlement for the digital age” and embrace “open source politics”. The article claims allegiance with several strands of recent online thinking: democratic access to information, grassroots power expressed through online social networks, government use of open-source software, [...]