paulcanning

Royal Mail destroying public sector online initi...

Interview with Harry Metcalfe of http://www.ernestmarples.com This is a service which supplied postcode information that powered a number of free services. Ones helping people find local jobs and hospitals as well as nearby planning applications have been forced to close due to Royal Mail legal action. Jim Killock, head of the Open Rights Group said: "It is easy to see that large numbers of small business ideas and not for profit services are being blocked by these licence fees. It is in effec...

Petri Livonen

Petri Livonen

Blaine Cooke @ teacamp

This is the video I shot (with hand-held Flash camera, someone tweeted about how I managed to keep my hand up for an hour) of one of Twitter's architects, Blaine Cooke, visiting Teacamp, a gathering of Whitehall webbies and hangers on in London. Cooke kindly spent a hour answering questions about Twitter - where it came from, is now and where it's heading to. In other words, lots of insider knowledge

Italians protest UK deportation of gay teen to I...

Monday 25th February, protest against Britaish deportation of gay teenager Seyed Mehdi Kazemi to likely execution in IranFollow the case here: http://gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/Video source: http://www.radioradicale.it/Blog post: http://paulcanning.blogspot.com/2008/02/jacqui-smith-is-complicit-in-murder.html