http://www.tomski.com/ Required verbage: These are my personal views and not those of the BBC, my employer. en-us 2006-08-07T12:51:11+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000053.html Sadly Councillor David's passion for Higherford Mill didn't carry the vote on the day. Never mind, it's always good to see a proper beard on the box. Clip taken from the excellent Restoration Village, the Grand Final of which... tomski 2006-08-07T12:51:11+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000042.html "The secret to success is to make everything one-button easy, then get out of the way." Amen to that.... tomski 2006-05-15T10:24:27+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000041.html They're arriving like buses, now. Last week saw the release of an experimental API to the BBC Programme Catalogue. Today sees the gentle launch of a tasty-looking API from those fine people at BBC R&D. This one lets you query... tomski 2006-05-03T17:46:04+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000040.html ...the BBC Programme Catalogue slips quietly onto the Web... It feels good.... tomski 2006-04-26T14:47:54+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000039.html Newsnight journalist Paul Mason just made my day by blogging Mark Thompson's Future of the BBC speech real-time today.... tomski 2006-04-25T13:17:01+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000014.html I'm no fan of its print manifestation, but The Guardian's recent new media awakening has been a joyous sight to behold. They have realised that the future of their brand is online. Tick. But they're treating the net as more... tomski 2006-03-14T13:09:23+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000010.html Thanks to the sterling efforts of Matthew Somerville, TheyWorkForYou.com now lets anyone see how MPs' entries in the Register of Members' Interests have changed over time. You see, entries can get dropped out of the Register after just a few... tomski 2006-01-03T00:54:13+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000009.html The latest MySociety project officially launched on Monday. HearFromYourMP.com is a small but perfectly-conceived civic hack. Full disclosure: I'm a director and trustee of the charity (UK Citizens Online Democracy) which runs the MySociety project. So I'm hardly unbiased, but... tomski 2005-11-24T23:35:32+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000008.html In early October I attended the Web2.0 conference ("web2con") in San Francisco. I found the event teeth-grindingly frustrating, with a couple of honourable exceptions. Too much soggyness. Insufficient crunch. Heureusement, my gloom did not survive my return to London. While... tomski 2005-11-01T00:36:50+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000007.html Check out the Radio 1 Superstar VJs site, which hosts the assorted creative archive licenced clips. Or read the press release. Congrats to all those present and past who had the vision to make this possible.... tomski 2005-08-16T18:19:57+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000006.html My friend Mike and I just spent the weekend tootling around the Suffolk coastal waters and rivers in my 14 foot Wanderer dinghy. We sailed from Waldringfield, to Felixstowe Ferry, to Walton-on-the-Naze, where Phil has a beach hut, and then... tomski 2005-07-12T21:56:11+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000005.html tomski 2005-07-06T15:53:35+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000004.html Interesting use of MySociety's new(ish) Pledgebank service: Pledge to refuse ID cards.... tomski 2005-06-28T23:20:15+00:00 http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000003.html Check out the new 7 day BBC TV & Radio listings in TV-Anytime format feed on backstage.bbc.co.uk TV-Anytime has lotsa good stuff within, so I'm v excited about the stuff that might get made with this.... tomski 2005-06-28T19:05:44+00:00