Suddenly everyone’s twittering about the semantic web. The announcement of UK30m to fund the Institute of Web Science, led by Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Nigel Shadbolt, probably has something to do with it. It’s been a long time coming – I met TB-L when he was in Brussels to drum up support for this [...]

I’ve decided to be a grouch until Spring fully arrives, which is why I am going to do the unthinkable and criticise the European Citizens Initiative against poverty. Like my previous post on the first ECI, my criticism is not about the content at all – who could criticise any initiative to reduce poverty? My [...]

A while back I and a number of others were blogging about how a very light, bottom-up usage of Web2-style tools and techniques (bloggingportal, delicious, tagging, google alerts, etc.) could help build links between national and EU online discussions and develop the slowly emerging European public space. The importance of this was brought home to [...]