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New event: Digital Media Europe 2013 Hack Day – 13 April 2013

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

This announcement comes via the excellent Scraperwiki  (a start-up I worked with on a series of events in 2010/11). They have teamed up with WAN-IFRA to put on a hack day at Bloomberg on 13 April 2013. In April, global … Continue reading →

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Is scraping legal?

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

Originally posted on ScraperWiki Data Blog:
Lots of people, when they hear about ScraperWiki, ask “is scraping legal? how can you build a business off that?”. Usually to follow up by saying “we do it in our company, but we…

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Open data at the Rebellious Media Conference

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

On Sunday I participated in a panel discussing Open Data at the Rebellious Media Conference in London. Javier Ruiz Diaz from the Open Rights Group chaired, and Chris Taggart and Martin Keegan talked about their fantastic respective projects, OpenCorporates and … Continue reading →

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