Simon Willison’s Weblog

Newspaper Club—A work in progress. “We’re building a service to help people make their own newspapers. This is the blog where we’re alarmingly honest about where it’s all going wrong.”

# 2nd July 2009, 7:34 pm / newspaperclub, newspapers, tom-taylor

Delighting with Data. Tom Taylor’s full transcript and slides for his recent talk at Oxford Geek Night—talks about Twitter bots, wikinear, iamnear.net and various other small but neat data repurposing projects.

# 1st July 2008, 1:24 pm / wikinear, iamnear, fireeagle, tom-taylor, oxfordgeeknight

i am near (via) Inspired by wikinear.com and powered by FireEagle, currently just showing nearby pubs from OpenStreetMap but with more stuff planned. I love the URL scheme—pubs.iamnear.net.

# 4th April 2008, 7:53 am / pubs, fireeagle, openstreetmap, iamnear, tom-taylor, urls, wikinear