With all the ‘occupy’ stuff I’ve been wondering if in fact I am in the top 1% for income in the world. I’m on £34,500 right now and that puts me in the top 1.22% so I’m almost there. This is how I figured it out. Thanks to my Dad and Clive Andrews for some…

So I know that Google searches are now personalised, based on your previous search history. But the recommendations it makes in the predictive text as you type a search, are also fed by what the world is searching for. This was used in a campaign about the racism against Romanians, as Google predicts ‘stupid’ as…

I’ve been blogging, but not here. Here’s the posts I’ve written on my work’s blog. Click the titles for the full articles. Engaging Networks’ #spark11 conference for non-profits On Tuesday 14 June 2011 I attended Engaging Networks’ Spark event in London. Engaging Networks is the new name for Advocacy Online – the supporter engagement software…

“I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2011 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month” Then noticed this whitehouse blog post which uses LBGTQ (defined as ‘lesbian, gay bisexual,…

FHM have deleted the original page with this article on and it’s not even in Google’s cache, but here’s the screenshot (via mediaite). FHM have now apologised in a non-transparent way which doesn’t reference what the original article did wrong. What it did wrong, was call Andrej a ‘thing’, challenge his sexual identity, and refer…

More of my delicious links! This time I’m talking DATA! Adactio: Journal—The password anti-pattern Elastic lists Well formed data Facebook Data Team Mouseprice – property information and data FlowingData | Data Visualization and Statistics Gist Power Tip: Export Facebook Page Fans – if out of date, check comments Global Web Index || Global research on…

Here’s all the books I’ve saved to my delicious over the past few years, which I haven’t gotten around to reading. So I just added them to an Amazon wishlist and got this here widget. So, we’ve got digital media, social media, feminism, architecture, society, politics. That’s your lot. Amazon.co.uk Widgets

The following map displays voting intentions received from MPs in responses to letters from their constituents. The bill’s second reading is on 20 January 2012 and we aim to gather voting intentions from at least 50% of MPs before then. Background info on the bill and instructions on how to email your MP. The map…

With the help of my colleague Steve who provided me the geo data for all of the constituencies, and the Public Whip site to get all the vote details, and Google Fusion Tables to do the mapping, here’s a map of how everyone voted on Dorries’ abstinence teaching for girls sex education bill on its…

I’ve been reporting weight loss product and diet ads on Facebook for a while, as being ‘offensive’. To do this you hover your mouse over the ad so the ‘x’ appears in the top right corner of the ad. Click that and you get a series of options so you can tell Facebook why you’re…