Stef Magdalinski (previously) (AKA, DJ at my wedding) writes, "I have a new music show 'Press Play. Music Comes Out,'
on SF's finest community radio
station, BFF.fm. I'm only on the 4th show, and still
finding my feet (i.e. — Read the rest
The UK National Health Service has initiated a plan to take the nation's private health records and sell them off to private companies in a process overseen by notorious multinational bumblewads ATOS. If you live in England, your records — mental health records, prescriptions, records of surgeries including abortions, and other sensitive personal information — will be handed over to a wide-ranging group of companies all over the world. — Read the rest
Mocality is an African startup that has a Kenya-wide business directory. There is no Kenyan yellow pages, so the directory was crowdsourced, paying thousands of Kenyans to help create and validate its database.
When the businesses in Mocality's database started asking them about the premium service they were offering with Google, Mocality was puzzled. — Read the rest
Stef Magdalinski, co-founder of MOO Cards, who make the awesome little custom business cards, sez,
I'd like to say that it was in celebration of Obama's inauguration, MySociety's victory for transparency or even because of the weather. But it isn't.
It's just cos we're nice, and it's January, so we'd like to offer all Boing Boing readers a free holder when they order a pack of our minicards
(add a holder to your basket on your way out, and use code MOOBOING09 at the checkout)
(Thanks, Stef!
Moo prints beautiful little calling-cards for kids and the young-at-heart. Each card can have a different back, and the undersized cards are just the right size for your name, email address and a URL or two. The project was co-founded by my friend Stef Magdalinski, who also spends his time hacking British democracy with projects like Wikiproxy and TheyWorkForYou — he's good people. — Read the rest
Tom sez, "mySociety launches our newest civic site PledgeBank today. PledgeBank
is about getting over the barrier to action that is the fear of being
the only person who wants to achieve something. It lets people say
"I'll do something, but only if 10 others will too." — Read the rest
The BBC has just dropped its pants in the best way imaginable, with a new service called BBC Backstage — Whitelabel's Stef Magdalinski calls it "A Creative Archive for data," and that's as good a concept line as any.
BBC Backstage is a collection of feeds, APIs, and other tools for remixing the BBC's digital offerings, to "make your stuff using our stuff." — Read the rest
I'll be speaking at an event on the 17th of February at London's Stanhope Centre on public access to "civic" information, organised by the Open Knowledge Forums, hope to see you!
— Read the restWhen: 17th February, 7pm – 9pm (1900 – 2100)
Where: Stanhope Centre, Marble Arch, London.
Stef Magdalinski — the Brit who led the amazing They Work For You project, among others — has unveiled his latest project: a proxy for the BBC News service that identifies proper nouns in BBC stories and auto-links them to their Wikipedia entries. — Read the rest
