Category Archives: Open Data

Our future on the web

I was asked at a conference recently “is print dead?”. My answer was no, not yet. Ten years ago when I was working in the printing industry there was concern that print wouldn’t be around in five years time, that everything would be on the web.
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OpenAustralia

OpenAustralia – or, “how two people who don’t know anything about building websites or the Australian Government came to build a website giving the community Hansard and Australian Government data”.
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Don’t forget the RSS

Amongst all the other concerns and constraints of running a Local Government Website, it’s easy for ‘Really Simple Syndication’ (RSS) feeds to be consigned to the too hard basket. But the big secret of RSS is that it can be very useful while requiring relatively little effort.
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OOOG! Uh what is it good for?

Let’s start out by defining what OOOG is shall we? OOOG stands for Open source, Open standards, Open Government. It started out as a personal standard that I used when judging the suitability of a project or solution for use with Gov2.0/LocGov2.0 work.
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Does your council even need a website?

We love the web. But we don’t love council websites.
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