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BCC DIY Hack Day collected memory
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As the culmination of the first week of our community-powered effort to build our own website for Birmingham City Council, the BCC DIY Hack Day was a real show of how much an informal group of people can now achieve in a short space of time.<>This is a collection of some of the stuff that’s since b</>...
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Total Place in the news: May
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Links to what people have being saying about Total Place in May 2010.
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Social media for public services: how about an Open Innovation Exchange?
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<><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/C56C3E04EF89E22D&hl=en_GB&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/C56C3E04EF89E22D&</>...
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Open data good – plus open comms even better
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<>The Data.Gov.UK project to open up government data for re-use to public benefit has produced a flurry of comment ranging from geeky ecstacy to scepticism about how far it can be used in practice for better service development. On Twitter of course. There’s even mainstream suggestions of dis-benef</>...
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Get geo-position coordinates from a UK postcode with Ruby
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Introducing Pat, au ultra-lightweight Ruby gem for postcode->geolocation in the UK.It’s easy to install:sudo gem install patAnd easy to use. (Try it from the command-line with irb -r rubygems -r pat)postcode = Pat.get(“SW1A 2TT”)<>postcode["geo"]["lat"]=> “51.502308″postcode["geo"]["lng"]=> “-0.124</>...
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