Are you tired of potholes? Wanna do something about it? If you live in the UK you can report your local pothole at potholes.co.uk.
The site is run by an independent organization supported by an insurancecompany.  The aim of the site is to make the problem visble on a national scale hoping they willl be able to awake political action on the issue.
But the site is not a typical protest site. It can be used by the motorists not only to report portholes but also to give them a view of …

Tim O’reilly (@timoreilly) has written an article telling why he loves Twitter.
His 5 reasons for loving twitter are

Twitter is simple – does one small thing and does it well.
Twitter works like people do – you can follow first and become “friends” later.
Twitter cooperates well with others – Integreates well with others services.
Twitter transcends the web – Can be used on any client without loss of functionality.
Twitter evolves quickly – many new users, many new ways to use it.

Read the full article at O’reilly Radar.

“Broadband for All May Not Be as Urgent as Many Say” says analyst at Gartner Andrea DiMaio. He argues that investments in services should follow any big investment in infrastructure.  He concludes that the current emphasis on building infrastructure is only promoting the entertainment-services not the public services that would justify the large public investments.
In a comment to the article I have argued that the emphasis on building infrastructure is still important since this is the a basis for all digital communication.

“If you build it, they will come” may not …

The City of Copenhagen has announced that 3 of their 31 public toilets now accepts payment by SMS. A visit to the toilets costs 2 kroner and finding a coin when needed sometimes seems to be a problem for the users.
Paying with you phone is easy. You just send a SMS and the door opens. Simple, effective and a great way to use the technology.
And If you’ re bored while in the toilet, you might find inspiration in iPoo, yet another program for your iphone for killing som time online.

The first time I tried twitter more than a year ago when a friend od mine told me about this new thing. We both twitted sending messages to eachother. After a while we stopped unable to see any use for this crazy program.
A couple of weeks ago I finally understood how usefull twitter could be. I was at a conference where twitter was used during the conference to comment and to ask questions. I was quite fascinated be the activity I saw on twitter during the conference and was very inspired by the …