links for 2011-03-16

"A clever use of FOI by the Daily Telegraph has established the Home Office doesn't actually define what 'frontline' is". But politicians keep pledging to protect it anyway...

Share a portrait of your painted hand or face and it may appear behind Duran Duran as part of a David Lynch art "thing" on March 23rd. Right-ho.

For a "dead" medium there are some pretty big boxes on this visualisation of newspaper circulation

What did get me thinking most of all though were a couple of slides which the guys projected. They featured some typical images from the music hackdays which produced some of the fantastic apps Robbie's blog highlights: some geeky-looking guys lying on floors surrounded by pizza boxes, guys huddled over laptops coding into the night, guys packing out the Guardian's very own Scott Room for tech demos, guys writing apps and designing interfaces. Guys. I took a look around the room. The presenters? Two men. The people sitting around me? All men. Scanning around, I counted maybe half a dozen women in my immediate line of sight, in an audience probably in the three figure mark. While I'm sure there were more I missed, the ratio was certainly somewhere around the range of 10:1. 

A recent FUMSI editorial from me about how Twitter has changed the way we network and the relationships we build within a business.