Last night I attended the first ever Brighton Social Media Surgery – a rather special if small event that marks an important landmark for a number of reasons. For one, it’s the start of an important phase of the We Live Here project which is aiming to usher in a new relationship between the public, [...]
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Adding to the Twitter map
I’ve realised that adding to the Twitter map for Brighton and Hove can be a bit of a pain, so I’m writing this quick post to explain to people an easy way to do it (which basically involves you telling me). If you tweet me (@andbwell) and include the hashtag #bhtwitmap, I can add stuff [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on September 8, 2011
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/brighton/adding-to-the-twitter-map/
Creating a Twitter map for Brighton and Hove
Quite by accident I appear to have started a Twitter map for Brighton and Hove. Hove, actually. (Sorry, this is an in joke, those of you don’t live here.) The map – which is currently useless, and will need other people’s help to get anywhere – is really just an attempt to straighten out who [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on August 30, 2011
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/brighton/creating-a-twitter-map-for-brighton-and-hove/
Mapping deprivation in Brighton (a first, faltering attempt)
For a few reasons I decided to keep out of the way at CityCamp Brighton. But I was still keen to try to do something with a bit of my time. Paul Colbran and the folk at Brighton and Hove released some data around postcodes and deprivation at the beginning of the conference, so I [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on March 6, 2011
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/brighton/mapping-deprivation-in-brighton/
Gritting bins in Brighton
With all the cold weather I thought it might be useful to have a little look at the gritting information available for where I live. I’ve taken a PDF file on Brighton and Hove’s website and made it into a spreadsheet, which you can see here. I’ve also made the spreadsheet into a kind of [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on November 29, 2010
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/brighton/gritting-bins-in-brighton/