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Adventures in government, politics and open source. Mostly WordPress-related.

Simon Dickson, principal consultant at Puffbox, has been blogging about e-government, online politics, and WordPress since 2005. Some important people read it.

Archive for 'android'

Puffbox's Project MyTube: hooray for APIs

11 December 2008 5 , , , , ,

A few days ago, I bought an iPod Touch; and I can finally understand the fuss. I didn't really want it; I'm not short of portable media players, and my Android phone gave me a perfectly good touchscreen to play with. But I'm very excited about mobile-optimised web interfaces at the moment, and felt I [...] read on »

Two weeks with my T-Mobile G1

14 November 2008 3 , ,

The release of the first 'Googlephone' running the open source Android couldn't have come at a better time for me. My Nokia E65 had served me well, but was getting a bit temperamental. I'd already handed all my email over to Google, and was keen to do likewise with my calendar needs (bye bye Outlook!). [...] read on »

Onepolitics now Android and iPhone-optimised

5 November 2008 4 , , ,

I've just rebuilt my onepolitics website, which aims to bring together the latest from a personal selection of prominent political blogs into a single page. It's the third incarnation of the site in less than a year: initially it was built in WordPress, then rebuilt in June as a more straightforward PHP/RSS-powered website. It's had [...] read on »

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