Month: November 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-28

  • Just discovered Edward Tufte (amazing dataviz work). Am getting http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei to read over holidays 🙂 #opendata #
  • Only got to just over half the #ccpsi event today, but they will be publishing all the presentations, so I'll tweet them soon 🙂 Gr8 event! #
  • Listening to presentation about great #opendata #opensource & #opengov work by Mosman Council inc AR, crowd sourcing and more. #ccpsi #
  • Neale Hooper summarising the morning and mentioning that is is a combination of good copyright and good tech policy for #opendata #ccpsi #
  • Geoscience Australia re their history in opening data, how commercial reuse important for economic devel, cc-by. Value of aggregation #ccpsi #
  • Delia Browne: no commercial use may restrict schools and add statutory copyright costs. Roxanne will be chatting to her 🙂 #ccpsi #
  • Roxanne: cc is important as are open formats that ppl like openaustralia can reuse, better for public reuse. #ccpsi #
  • Roxanne taking about integrity and reuse, moral rights, public good as well as risk analysis as parts of a gov #opendata strategy #ccpsi #
  • Great talk from our favourite librarian, roxanne missingham about parl website and the importance of openness and interoperability #ccpsi #
  • Listening to talk about abs #opendata strategy inc cc usage, metadata and formats. Very interesting 🙂 #ccpsi #
  • Erk, sorry all! RT @j_hutch: @piawaugh That's http://www.data.govt.nz for some odd reason 🙂 #ccpsi #opendata #gov20 #
  • Anyone (inc public) can add a dataset to data.gov.nz, wow! Quite powerful. They also use cc and require open formats 🙂 #opendata #ccpsi #
  • Nz guy talking about their #opendata strategy and policy data they basically say don't drm as it causes issues. 🙂 #ccpsi #
  • Listening to talk about data.gov.nz. Discussing importance of clear copyright guidelines for public so they can use data, eg CC #ccpsi #
  • AG quoting BOM, APH, ABS, budget papers, GA and other examples of examples of creative commons implementation in gov 🙂 #opendata #ccpsi #
  • Anne Fitzgerald says Victorian parl inquiry to open access to psi one is the most comprehensive documents on gov #opendata #ccpsi #
  • Listening to fantastic talk by Anne Fitzgerald outlining history of open access policy in Australia dating back to 90's #opendata #ccpsi #
  • Wow, just heard that snowy hydro use cloud seeding to increase rainfall by 14%. Wow.#aeea2010 #
  • Listening to talk about snowy hydro project. Very interesting stuff. Seems like good engineering culture #aeea2010 #
  • Am attending the Australian Engineering Excellence Awards. What an awesome night! Celebrating great projects & technologists 🙂 #aeea2010 #
  • OK, going home now. Will need loud music and coke in the car methinks 🙂 /cc @jdub #
  • Hey tweeps, add your comments on @katelundy's R18+ speech on her blog: "R18+ ajournment speech – your comments" http://bit.ly/ec5VLZ #
  • Currently listening to John Faulkner talk about honesty & integrity in the media. Live @ http://webcast.aph.gov.au/livebroadcasting/ #auspol #
  • For those interested, check out the APH website #Senate stats. Very useful 🙂 http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/work/statsnet/index.htm #auspol #
  • Had gr8 eg of #techfail *During* preso had to register new Google api, modify IP addy, reboot VM & restart services. Is it home time yet? 🙁 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21

  • Thought I'd tweet the Reinecke review of the Government ICT Reform Program, for those interested 🙂 http://bit.ly/cw6dMC #fb #
  • Wow, listening to John Faulkner speak is always an inspiring experience! 🙂 #
  • Lovely photo of @katelundy on Remembrance Day w the Governor General http://bit.ly/cL9AcH She's wearing a beautiful hat by @annikanancess 🙂 #
  • Clarification: now in #Senate is debate on a motion to postpone the Competition & Consumer Safeguard bill debate, not actual bill debate :/ #
  • Competition & Consumer safeguards bill being debated in the #Senate with @katelundy halfway through her speech #auspol http://bit.ly/dCSmvM #
  • Just saw John McMillan's speech to the Parliamentary Library was put online 🙂 http://bit.ly/9B5hmK Very informative! #gov2au #opendata #
  • Hey @ParlLibrary 🙂 Do you guys tweet when you add new Parliamentary Library Lecture links? Looking forward to retweeting today's talk 🙂 #
  • Listening to John Macmillan talk about office of Info Commissioner in parliamentary library. Interesting! #gov2au will tweet recording link #
  • I never thought I'd say this, but I wish I knew more about database design :/ Having an awful time trying to crash course & learn. Bleargh! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14