Clearing the Cache: Counting Pounds and Pence
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, June 22 2010
- The UK's Open Knowledge Foundation is "live-vizzing" -- aka creating visualizations on the fly of -- the new budget information coming out of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition.
- Jer Thorp, of blprnt fame, says that you know that data is the thing because designers are getting briefs back from art directors saying "Can you make this look more like data visualization?"
- Calling it Washington "with a geosocial twist," C-SPAN and foursquare partner up.
- New Zealand's Daily Maverick profiles Erik Hersman and Ushahidi.com, calling the latter " disruptive technology that’s making information more freely available and rewriting the rules for the way global crises are handled."
(Via someone on Twitter whose identity has been forgotten. Sorry. But thanks!) - Wikileaks Julian Assange says no one in Washington has formally told him to stop posting things.
- Clay Johson argues that community building, not app contests, should be the goal.
- And You Should Totally Apologize to BP: a new site gives you an open forum to say you're sorry for eating all of the company's cheese snacks, and other offenses.