• The Google Book Settlement 18th February 2010

    I am just reading Professor Robert Darnton’s new book titled ‘The Case for Books’. Darnton is a well know book historian, especially of the French Enlightenment, and made the bold career move to become Harvard’s Librarian. Admittedly ‘the Case for Books’ is not that good, especially for those who have been involved in academic publishing…

  • Making Government Better: New Online Tool

    A team of researchers from the LSE Public Policy Group and the OII have developed an online tool to help government organisations improve their communication with customers. The team was led by Patrick Dunleavy (LSE) and Helen Margetts (OII), and Tobias Escher (OII) developed and programmed the online checklist. More information, access to online tool…

  • New Book: Joseph Camilleri and Jim Falk “Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance Across a Stressed Planet”, Edward Elgar, UK, December 2009

    The book that I worked on in 2006 as a Research Assistant with Professor Jim Falk is to be launched this Friday at the University of Technology; Sydney. The book is about the rise of ‘global governance’; driven by crisis such as climate and technological changes (I worked on the technology chapter). The argument, and…

  • Leaked climate change emails scientist ‘hid’ data flaws

    This is one of the reasons we have eScience and citable, re-usable (and verifible) data. Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based. A Guardian investigation…

  • The new Wheeler Centre Melbourne

    The new Wheeler Centre is about to open in Melbourne and is hosting a number of events.  It appear to be somewhere between a think tank and writers centre. Can’t wait! Our City of Literature status is not about Dickens on the tram, Nabokov in the Great Southern Stand or a Bronte or two over…

  • Tim Berners Lee on free data and the BBC’s Virtual Revolution

    Tim Berners-Lee discusses the launch of the government’s new open data project, and Dan Gluckman explains why the BBC was so keen to open the development of a new series about the social history of the web (link) Also see: http://data.gov.uk/