innovation

Now that New South Wales has won the right to host the headquarters for the governments new National Broadband Network, I have a radical idea.

Instead of putting it in Sydney, hows about we put it in Wollongong?

I know, why would you put the headquarters of the nations most important communications company in a town with barely 200000 people in it. Let's have a look a few of the reasons why shall we?

I was originally going to write just about the twitter channel cfa_updates, which takes the rss of ongoing fire information being provided by the CFA of Victoria, and through the magic of twitterfeed, provides an up to date feed of information to the twitterverse.

Yesterday I spoke about the Federal Governments shiny new Digital Economy blog and the question of what to do with Public Service Information (PSI).

Well here's an excellent example of what you can build using freely available PSI and tools such as Google Maps.