The Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered a speech at Demos last week titled On Fairness. You can read the speech here, and listen to audio from the event here.
- Google's eyes in the sky I've just finished a fascinating paper on Google Earth by the Open Source Centre. Google Earth came online in 2006 and had an instant impact. Some Demos researchers spent lunchtimes whizzing through Antarctica or hunting for Chinese submarines.* Sometimes we even got so far as to create mashups of useful information. But Google Earth also opened wide a window on places and events that five years ago only spies could see - and this made some government's very very nervous. According... continue reading 2:35pm
- Podcast: Social Change and Contemporary Art Demos Podcasts In June, I spoke at an event launching Peckham Spaces' Peckham TV project. We've put together a podcase of the event, including excerpts of what I and the participating artists, The People Speak and Harold Offeh said. The podcast also includes some of the discussion with members of the audience. continue reading on 4th September 2008
- McCain to Obama - 'a job well done' McCain's team finally seem to have understood that constant negative campaigning can end up harming their own nominee. While McCain famously declared that Mitt Romney's loss [in the Iowa caucuses] was due to his negative campaigning his own team were busy shafting everyone else - Romney included. But in a change of tact, McCain has released the following video (watch it after the jump), congratulating Obama on his nomination on such an historic day (try not to be too cynical) and on a job well... continue reading on 29th August 2008 Comments (1)