Coming soon @drawnalism.com

How to avoid concreting cowpats (and other AI hokem) Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

217 people have now registered for UK Gov Camp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026. Register to attend or sponsor via UKGovCamp.com, repost this message and share with your colleagues. We welcome everyone, whether you work with the #PublicSector or not. #unconference

What was that? You would love another blog on planning permission data standards?? This time talking about user research??? Hold my beer… mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/20/d... I love #OpenWorking #PlanningData etc

Have added a link to this to our front page and our archive of previous camp coverage. www.odcamp.uk/recent-posts...

Finally finished processing (well begun finishing processing) a fantastic OpenDataCamp in Edinburgh #ODCamp @odcamp.uk I ran a session on the value of (open) data, my reflections here -> medium.com/@mikeerose/a...

#ODCamp [Open Data Camp] Awesome! Thank you! That is all (for now)!

No vegetarian or vegan has ever wanted their fake steak or burger to bleed. Why are companies investing in these weird gimmicks that probably just means a crap load of chemicals being added to food. Make them taste better, I don't care about realism.

It was lovely to see @mikerose.co.uk and @adrianhoward.com for geeky coffee earlier

Now are you interested in planning application submissions? Ie the filled in forms… Or are you interested in what has been decided?? Ie what has and has not got permission… Another blog - get involved - what do you want to know? mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/08/05/s...

New blog (by me) on planning data standards -> mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/08/s...

The Dot. The one true Dot. The once and future Dot. The Dot that launched a thousand cigs. ...and even she could not pull off cyan.

This. So much this! “People” when searching for “unicorns” and “fairies” (AI deployments) forget that the “mystical blood” is the boring, boring data that “flows through their veins”!

Society is not good at funding data infrastructure, Part 172

Indeed! Original post: masto.hackers.town/@X00001/1145...

We do not need to change copyright law, we need transparency www.thebookseller.com/comment/we-d... by Baroness Kidron via @thebookseller.com #DUABill #DataBill #genAI #IPlaw #techpolicy ("The AI companies fiercely defend their own internet protocol (IP) …"?)

A reminder of an old friend, sadly departed.

Departing #Dorset

An orchid, an oak tree and of course some dogs in a river. Another sunny day in #Dorset

Another lovely Dorset Geeky Coffee with @mikerose.co.uk, @adrianhoward.com and Roxy. A slightly less traditional selfie

#London is that way! #Dorset #Sunrise (brolly packed for arrival!)

Yes. This! Original post: nerdculture.de/@ichbindabom...

After all that #PlanningApplications stuff - best to find time to chill outside… Primroses in the garden and a dog in the woodland. Could be the titles of both volumes of my autobiography…

Get involved validating the baseline planning application data specifications mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/17/d... another post by @mikerose.co.uk et al on MHCLG's Digital Planning work (England) Discussion github.com/digital-land... #plantech #proptech #datastandards #openstandards #opendata

#Dorset Dog on beach - enjoy!

What with the world going to sh1t and all that - thought I would pop up to the top of #Dorset for a wander this morning!

Rollback on AI copyright could lead to parliamentary 'ping-pong' www.thetimes.com/article/3914... (£) Data (Use and Access) Bill bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825/p... #DUABill #genAI #AIpolicy #IPlaw Flipping copyright maximalists. None of this AI stuff was within the original scope of the bill.

"Goes tits up" was right there

I wrote something about why it is a mistake to think we all want the same things from digital government, and why AI and automation is not a corrective to shrinking IRL state capacity www.careful.industries/blog/2025-3-...

The sun is fighting its way through here in Dorchester…

Ever since being a waste inspector back in Essex in 1999 I have thought this. So much perfectly recyclable stuff chucked into old quarries. It is just the timeframe I wonder about…

This.

Spotted some frogs in a ditch near Camelot. Yeah, that’s how I roll!

I must say I LOVE starring in other people’s weeknotes! Billy loves it too!

Enjoy my newest listed building blog… yes really! #MHCLG #Planning mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/20/b...

Contract notice – Open Access LandIS Portal www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/00550... Defra has initiated a £6 million procurement to "open up" access to the National Soil Map and other key soil datasets held by Cranfield Uni. #Opendata?? #landuse #agritech #geospatial HT @mikerose.co.uk

Hey @owenboswarva.bsky.social our friend @alexrcoley.bsky.social has just drawn my attention to this -> www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/00550... Others might be interested too because how I read this is Defra are paying over 6m to open* up IPR that was given away… (*open not defined)

4 days left to apply for this ace role in our team 😃 Please share for reach 🙏🏻

Had great fun talking planning, evidence and mysteries (and numbers) with @mikerose.co.uk and Christopher Argent open.spotify.com/episode/6yYr...

Hey it’s @stefw.bsky.social on the pod! #INAATN

I have dusted off my 'hire me' page on my blog - a bit early because I am not available until April but I want to be a bit more intentional in what I do next - like a friend said in a chat this week 'hold my nerve' - for the right shaped thing. digitalbydefault.com/hire-me/

A wee trip to the smoke. #DSITSelfie Anyone, anyone? Bueller?

Sunset in #Dorset

Hey data nerds, Defra has just launched a 'Land Use Consultation' which says government wants to: - make more [geospatial] data accessible for the public benefit - free up more Land Registry data - explore options to increase transparency of land & property data. consult.defra.gov.uk/land-use-fra...

Snowdrops and thunder clouds #Dorset

Have a good #ukgc25 (aka #GovCamp ) to all attending. Hopefully see you next year 😁 If anyone can pitch and then crack how to get *everyone* to understand that any AI in government will require good data basics… I would be grateful!

Dawn was quite 🔥 and 🌖 this morning. #Dorset

Up on the top of #Dorset today with that there #dog

A moonlit dog walk here in #Dorset tonight…