James Thornett The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the BBC, my employer.
Archive for November, 2008
UK Location Strategy is published
A new strategy to tackle problems from traffic management to flooding, improved policy formulation and decision making by using better geographical information, was launched by Baroness Andrews today in a report Place Matters: The Location Strategy for the United Kingdom. Full details, including a press release announcing the launch, on the Communities and Local Government [...]
BBC Trust says No to BBC Local Video
The regional and local newspapers of the UK had an early Christmas present today with the announcement from the BBC Trust that it has rejected proposals from the BBC for adding video content to its network of local websites.(Disclaimer: I am involved in this proposal as part of my day job at the BBC.) After [...]
Lessons to learn from the BNP map
Details of over 10,000 members of the UK British National Party appeared in the public domain after a former member supposedly leaked the list online. Links to the data were made highly visible on sites such as Digg.com. Then a Google map mash-up was created – zoom in to find the BNP member in your [...]
Help end hunger and learn something useful at the same time
Just spotted FreeRice for the first time and thought it was both simple and fantastic… choose a subject area to focus on such as learning a language, improving your grammar, or knowledge of the world, and help donate rice to the United Nations World Food Program. FreeRice began on October 7, 2007 and over 50 [...]
Links (17th November 2008)
Still catching up with my backlog of links… Welcome to Geography Awareness WeekIt’s the third week in November, which means it’s time again to celebrate Geography Awareness Week. Where 2.0 2009 Call for ParticipationNext year’s Where 2.0 conference (May 19-21, 2009) is accepting proposals until December 2nd. Improve your relationship using web mapping toolsKevin Burke [...]
An open source approach to tackling climate change
Cquestrate have an idea for reducing the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and are hoping to turn theory into reality by using an open source approach to tackling climate change. Watch this brief introduction and head over to the Cquestrate site if you want to know more or get involved. [dailymotion id=k69d6A2dF6wEAHPmoO] Animation [...]
Links (12th November 2008)
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post, largely because I’ve been far too busy working on this. To make amends, here’s a round-up of recent activity in a more conversational style than the usual list of links. The beginning of this week saw The Society of Editors gather in Bristol for their [...]
Me and my running, 2008
Judging by my training record for 2008 so far (and I doubt there will be significant improvement in the remaining 7 weeks of the year) I’ve got some way to go before I’ll be writing my own version of Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Mileage on the vertical axis, this [...]
