Category Archives: ideas

Dan Slee, me, HyperLocal Govcamp West Midlands, BrewCamp, and cake

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett is mentioned in a new blog post by Dan Slee, about HyperLocal Govcamp West Midlands, BrewCamp, and cake Continue reading →

Posted in about me, hyperlocal, ideas, local government | Tagged BrewCamp, cake, danSlee, flickr, GovCamp, hyperlocal, local government, localgovweb, Mike Rawlins, Pezholio, Si Whitehouse, Stuart Harrison, twitter:user=danslee, twitter:user=mike_rawlins, Twitter:user=pezholio, Twitter:user=siwhitehouse, West Midlands, wikipedia | Leave a comment

Improving the already excellent ‘Twitter Blackbird Pie’ WordPress plugin

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett likes the ‘Twitter Blackbird Pie’ plug-in for citing tweets in WordPress.org blog posts, but has some suggested improvements. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, microformats, web standards | Tagged accessibility, Blackbird Pie, blockquote, COinS, hcard, html, idea, metadata, microformats, readability, suggestion, themergency, twitter, twitter:status=66835851316957185, twitter:user=themergency, usability, white space, wordpress | 4 Comments

HashMash: My invention of a new hashtag search tool

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett has invented a new tool for searching for related hashtags. Simon Painter has developed it. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, microformats, tagging, Twitter | Tagged HashMash, hashtags, JFDI, PasteBin, rachelbeer, search, SimonPainter, tagging, Twicket, twitter:status=62867706797490177, twitter:user=@rachelbeer, Twitter:user=pigsonthewing, twitter:user=SimonPainter | 5 Comments

Response to consultation on an open data standard for information about public toilets

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett’s response to The London Assembly Health and Public Services Committee’s consultation on an open data standard for information about public toilets. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, local government, microformats, web standards | Tagged addressing, geolocation, geotagging, London, London Assembly, metadata, open data, public toilets, toilets, vcard | Leave a comment

Do you make comments on others’ blogs? Bookmark and share them!

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Bookmark and tag blog posts when you comment on them; then share those bookmarks. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, social media, tagging | Tagged blog, blogging, bookmarking, bookmarks, delicious, pinboard, rss, social media, tagging, tags, wordpress | 7 Comments

A proposed tag for including Wikipedia links in Twitter posts

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

What if we agreed a special tag as a shortcut for using Wikipedia links in Twitter? Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, social media, tagging, Twitter, web standards, Wikipedia | Tagged dracos, Matthew Somerville, tagging, twitter, twitter:status=25245878302281729, twitter:user=dracos, wikipedia | 4 Comments

Proposal: generate KML from postcodes in Twitter messages

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

It would be cool if someone with the necessary skills and bandwidth could provide a service which takes a Twitter search (say, for a hashtag), extracts from it valid UK postcodes, and returns a corresponding KML file, which can then be passed to other services, like Google Maps. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, social media, web standards | Tagged #twitter:status=22993533493313536, Ben Marsh, geocoding, geotagging, google maps, hack, hacking, hashtags, KML, mapping, mashup, postcode, Shooting Star, twitter, Twitter:user=pigsonthewing, UKSnow | 2 Comments

Everything at your postcode – proposal for a new website

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Andy Mabbett

A proposal for a new website, providing links to information about any given UK postcode. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, local government, microformats, social media, web standards, Wikipedia | Tagged crowdsourcing, geolocation, hyperlocal, idea, microformats, open data, OpenlyLocal, postcode, proposal | 13 Comments

Overdue measurement microformat: useful for radio station frequencies

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Andy Mabbett

The proposed hMeasure microformat could be used to mark-up the frequencies of radio stations, making them parsable by computers. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, microformats | Tagged Corey Mwamba, frequency, hcard, hmeasure, measurement, microformats, radio, Toby Inkster | 4 Comments

The Highway Code should be available as a set of linkable HTML documents, not just PDFs

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Andy Mabbett

The Highway Code should be available as a set of HTML documents, not just PDFs, and it should be easy to link to a specific section. Continue reading →

Posted in annoyances, ideas, web standards | Tagged directgov, double yellow, government, highway code, html, parking, pdf, peteashton, twitter:user=peteashton, usabiity, web | 3 Comments

Category Archives: ideas

Dan Slee, me, HyperLocal Govcamp West Midlands, BrewCamp, and cake

Improving the already excellent ‘Twitter Blackbird Pie’ WordPress plugin

Response to consultation on an open data standard for information about public toilets

Overdue measurement microformat: useful for radio station frequencies

The Highway Code should be available as a set of linkable HTML documents, not just PDFs

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