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Welcome to my blog. It goes back a while and has my thoughts on all things technology, open government, FOSS and freedom. May contain traces of silliness and martial arts.
Check out my Gov 2.0 (open government) posts. They represent the bulk of my thinking and work at the moment.
These thoughts are my own.
Important posts & links
- Choose Your Own Adventure, Please
- Online Culture: Unicorns and Doom
- Gov 2.0: Where to begin
- Creating Open Government (for a Digital Society)
- Internet, government and society: reframing #ozlog & #openinternet
- Speech from Nethui on Open Government and Gov 2.0
- Public engagement: more customer service than comms
- Cloud computing: finding the silver lining
- Vivek Kundra and some lessons learnt about tech in gov
- Society 5 project
- OKFestival 2012: Open Data, Open Gov & Open Science
- Privacy and Internet Policy at Internet Governance Forum Australia
- Distributed Democracy project
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Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Reading list, 5 May 2018 – talkingtothecan on Exploring change and how to scale it
- Exploring change and how to scale it – Strategic Reading on Exploring change and how to scale it
- pipka on Exploring change and how to scale it
- Pim on Exploring change and how to scale it
- Pivoting ‘the book’ from individuals to systems – Strategic Reading on Pivoting ‘the book’ from individuals to systems
Archive – blogging since 2003
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Category Archives: Music
Music: Tar
This song is about trying to support someone with depression. I hope it is helpful to others, both those strugglinh with depression and their loved ones trying to support them. [podcast]http://bigcoolguy.com/system/files/tar_20110302.mp3[/podcast] This is one of my favourite recordings thus far. … Continue reading
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Music: Leave you blue
This is a bit of a cheesy song in the vein of a relationship gone sour. See what you think It’s meant to be overly dramatic, love your feedback! Full details on Martin’s post or you can download it here. … Continue reading
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Music: Failing ghosts (NIN remix from Ghosts)
So one of the little projects I’ve started is to look at awesome music that I can play with and remix. Luckily for me my favourite musician, Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails and more recently How to Destroy Angels) … Continue reading
Music: Burning Bridges, Tar and Who Farted
Thunder (2010) – written whilst driving in the car, recording upon arriving home, and needs some work and more lyrics, but needed to capture the idea. Audio (ogg/mp3) | Lyrics Tar (2010) – pretty raw song about supporting someone with … Continue reading
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Music: Greed
The latest song from Martin and I, this one was written and recorded late last year. I basically went for a slightly sexy sound as it has a form of seduction at the heart of it. On this recording I … Continue reading
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Music: Shadow in the light
Have re-recorded Shadow in the Light (was Thunder, but not AC/DC ;). This song was composed in the whilst driving through the sort of storm where you can’t see the car in front of you (in my head of course, … Continue reading
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