#futr Day 2: FutureEverything, Manchester, May 2012
Day two of FutureEverything dawned after the long round trip to Preston where I was staying. I???ve written up the first day, over the course of about 1,500 words here. As for day two you can read the organisers??? own thoughts here. But to the bu...
England riots: an interactive timeline (guardian.co.uk)
via guardian.co.uk The Guardian today released the first findings of its investigation into the riots which swept through some cities in England during the summer of 2011. More is to come, as they drill down into the data with a team of academics ...
Minor hurdle negotiated: PhD proposal drafted.
Feeling a sense of slight dizziness just now, I've drafted my PhD proposal and sent it to a couple of colleagues for their thoughts. Referees have also been approached. Hopefully all will be in place by this time next week and I can rest up over C...
Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief
via techcrunch.com Follow the TechCrunch link to a relatively short piece on the uses of Ushahidi and connected technologies in crisis and disaster relief. Among the points to note are that this is from the technology-focused media, that it's writ...
Unplanned events?
Two recent/ongoing examples have informed my thoughts a little regarding unplanned events, principally the amount of work that has gone into planning them. So much so in fact that to call them unplanned is in many ways a misnomer; 'ambush' events ...