The sense trend index recently alerted me to Google trends, which allows you to compare up to 5 terms and see the volume of searches across a time period of your choosing. Search results are returned as a time plotted graph together with details of the city or region from which the search originated. […]
The era of mass media is giving way to one of personal and participatory media, says Andreas Kluth in the Economist’s recent supplement Among the audience – a survey of new media. A series of articles look at blogs, wikis, podcasting and journalism.
We will be exploring the impact of these for the voluntary […]
The speed of technological innovation is outrunning politicians’ attempts to keep pace, bringing radical changes to our lives before we can discuss the public interest issues, according to a senior government technologist, as reported by the e-government bulletin.
Ed Parsons, chief technology officer of the Ordnance Survey, was the keynote speaker at the launch of […]