http://www.memespring.co.uk blog & web stuff by richard pope Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:04:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I spent the other weekend encamped at the Young Foundation (albeit with forays back to the Albert) messing about with barcodes for Social Innovation Camp. The idea of sicamp was to get groups of programmers and ideas people (not mutually exclusive) in the same place to come up with some ... http://www.memespring.co.uk/2008/04/21/barcode-wikipedia/ ... has launched. http://www.memespring.co.uk/2008/03/03/groups-near-you/ Last weekend Jermey Gould organised a barcamp for government geeks at Google's London HQ. There was a good mix of GovGeeks, the 'civic hacking' types of mySociety and FarmSubsidy.org, and people from startups like School Of Everything. I've long wondered why there was such a cultural divide between the startup geek ... http://www.memespring.co.uk/2008/01/31/government-barcamp-government-geeks/ jenny-bee has recycled my twitter watcher thingy for use at BarcampUKGovweb. In case its useful to anyone else, the code's here. http://www.memespring.co.uk/2008/01/25/government-barcamp-twitter-watcher/ For all the talk of social networking people forget that for a whole host of internet users have been doing this kind of thing for years using really the really the < web 1.0 technology of email groups and phpBB forums (sw4people, Urban75 and Hern Hill Forum blog are just ... http://www.memespring.co.uk/2007/11/08/groupsnearyoucom-mapping-local-community-email-groups-forums/ I'm building a local email group finder for mysociety at the moment, the idea being that people will be able to find those hidden online communities where they live. The aim is to make the site work anywhere in the world from the out, so I've been making a lot ... http://www.memespring.co.uk/2007/09/15/php-wrapper-gaze-geographic-gazetteer/ I gave a very short talk at MiniBar yesterday about some of the things we've learnt at moo about keeping things simple / usability. It looked like this. (Uses Slidy) http://www.memespring.co.uk/2007/09/01/minibar-presentation-about-moocom-usability/ PlanningAlerts.com was up for the New Statesman New Media Award for information and openness last week. In the end we lost out to the lovely and useful Intellegent Giving, but mySociety picked up 2 for Downing Street petitions and FixMyStreet.com. Chris Lightfoot's mum Pru accepted the second award following a ... http://www.memespring.co.uk/2007/07/30/new-media-awards-lots-of-nice-geo-data/ Our latest product at moo just launched - stickers. http://www.memespring.co.uk/2007/07/19/moo-stickers/ This could be kind of fun if it gets going: pledgebank.com/vote4John http://www.memespring.co.uk/2007/05/15/john-mcdonnell-pledge/