Mike Butcher

Powerful online government watchdogs

• 18 April 2007

Monitoring what the government is up to is being made easier by several websites

SciTech

Local social capital heading online?

• 13 April 2007

'These days the buzz is all about flipping online interactions into real-world meetings'

You wait ages for a decent bus map...

• 10 April 2007
• 1 comment

New websites are making it easier to plan your bus journey online

SciTech

Righting digital wrongs

• 10 April 2007

Ensuring your rights in an increasingly digital society is the goal of advocacy organisations like The Open Rights Group

SciTech

Who's next? The Bloggers?

• 04 April 2007
• 1 comment

The British hacker whose UFO cover-up hunt has seen him extradited to America

SciTech

Text the CCTV camera?

• 04 April 2007
• 1 comment

City councils are developing ways for the public to text CCTV if they witness suspicious activity.

UK Politics

Cyber election here we come

• 02 April 2007
• 1 comment

Will the next general election be as much online as off?

UK Politics

Petitioning the PM

• 30 March 2007

Could it be that the Downing Street e-petitioning service might actually be a good thing?

Are smart tags really so smart?

• 20 March 2007

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are amazing things, storing all sorts of data about anything they are attached to.

SciTech

Some council apply tech creatively

• 14 March 2007

How technology used innovatively provides genuine help for the socially excluded