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Why it took me five months to write @whensmytube 7 Mar 2012 | 04:24 am
(or, open data is not always 100% open) Five months ago I wrote a Twitter bot called @whensmybus. It took me a fortnight to code up and test the first version, which was pretty simple to begin with –...
When’s My… Anything 27 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pm
Last year I introduced a service called @whensmybus, a Twitter bot that you could ask for real-time bus times from anywhere in London. It proved to be a little bot cult hit, and in time I’ve expanded ...
Why it’s not just about teaching kids to code 11 Jan 2012 | 04:53 am
The Guardian have launched a Digital Literacy Campaign, led by an article entitled “Britain’s computer science courses failing to give workers digital skills“: In higher education, although universit...
@whensmybus gets a whole lot better 13 Oct 2011 | 09:07 pm
Wow. It’s been nine days since @whensmybus was released and the feedback has by and large been positive. It’s not all been plain sailing – the odd bug or two made it past my initial testing, and a dat...
Introducing @whensmybus 4 Oct 2011 | 12:51 am
A few weeks ago TfL put all their information from Countdown, the service they use to provide bus arrival times, online. There’s a TfL Countdown website and you can enter a bus stop name, or ID number...
Some thoughts on quitting Facebook 23 Sep 2011 | 09:29 pm
I did an odd thing last night, for a social media webponce. I disabled my Facebook account, perhaps for good (at least that’s the intention). Although this was not solely due to what came out of the ...
ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE, part 3: a reviewOr… considering the documentary-maker as not really a documentary-maker 8 Jun 2011 | 12:13 am
The third part of ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE looked like it would take the form of its predecessors; taking contrasting stories, seemingly unconnected events, and trying to draw penc...
ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE, part 1: A review 24 May 2011 | 09:34 pm
Adam Curtis is a filmmaker who intrigues and frustrates. His Century of the Self and Power of Nightmares peeled back the layers on Freud and modern capitalism, and the rise of neoconservatism and fund...
The curious case of Twitpic’s disappearing Terms of Service 11 May 2011 | 09:40 pm
Update: Thanks for all the RTs everyone. For those of you who don’t want to read the whole story, the TLDR version is this: Twitpic changed their ToS to restrict users from selling their uploads to ag...
Tweeting the killing of bin Laden: how a little geekery and I (maybe) helped break a story 4 May 2011 | 11:01 pm
As the biggest news story of the week, the killing of Osama bin Laden, broke, I was on holiday in New York. As the clock ticked passed midnight local time (EDT) on Sunday night, my girlfriend Maha, si...
