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Mark Pack

Postcode campaign gears up to save popular web services

By Mark Pack | Wed 7th October 2009 - 7:56 pm

A range of popular websites, providing useful services such as information on local job vacancies and planning applications, have been closed down following the Royal Mail’s decision to crack down on the use they made of its postcode address database.

As Alex blogged previously:

With postcodes so increasingly important to national life, it’s ridiculous that they are not public data that is, as a minimum, free to use for non-profit organisations.

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Alex Foster

#ldconf podcast: Beyond Twitter

By Alex Foster | Thu 24th September 2009 - 10:07 am

Below, you will find our final fringe event at conference, Beyond Twitter. MP Jo Swinson joined LDV regular Mark Pack and MySociety’s Richard Pope to debate the future of public online engagement with politics.

We still have one more fringe event in the cans ready for sound processing, but I won’t be able to bring that to you just yet.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:07 — 60.5MB)

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Alex Foster

LDV’s Conference fringe events #ldconf

By Alex Foster | Wed 9th September 2009 - 10:00 am

Lib Dem Voice at Conference

As ever the LDV team will be providing as full coverage as we can from the conference, including reportage, podcasts and as much as possible to make conference accessible and participatory for those not able to join us in Bournemouth.

We will also be hosting four fringe events, all of which will be recorded and podcast as mini-radio shows here on LDV. The rooms are booked and topics selected, and we can now give you full information on our confirmed speakers. The details are as follows:

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    John B: my comment was tongue-in-cheek. All Labour can offer given their well-known intransigence is to guarantee that the Tories will be the largest party...
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    Jo Swinson says that the party "must give voters a genuine remain option" in the election. Quite right. The problem is that the party is...
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    Thanks Mark.
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    David makes a valid point for seats with few resources and low membership. If central funds can pay deposits then £500 pays for 15,000 A4...
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    Thanks Mark for thinking of those not so well packed full of Liberals places like mine. We have had to fund from our own meagre...
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