North Atlantic Radio

Episode nine

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18 minutes

This episode sees us talking about open government data, including the soon-to-be-released web site from the UK government as headed by Tim Berners-Lee. We also slam Adobe for trying wheedle to wheedle their way in to open data with their distinctly unopen Flash.

Along with that we mention games, NASA, and the books we’re reading.

Open data

• Newspaper Club and their data.gov.uk newspaper
• Making Ordnance Survey data public
• Þjóðfundar

Heroes

• Amanita Design, for Machinarium
• NASA, for debunking the 2012 conspiracy stories

Villains

• Adobe, for their “open data” ploy
• Verizon, for their Droid fees

Site of the episode

After last episode’s chat about native gaming in browsers we were very impressed to see Gil Megidish implement part of the old classic Another World using Javascript and canvas.

Books

• The Forgotten Prime Minister: the 14th Earl of Derby, by Angus Hawkins
• Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State, by Steven Heller