Liverpool and the Internet Of Things

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Liverpool and the Internet Of Things

Liverpool has some of the world’s leading experts in the Internet of Things, but what is the Internet of Things and what’s it got to do with us?

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Proud to be Parochial

There are two words that make me reach for my prescription drugs. One is ‘bump’ (when used as a cutesy name for a foetus), and the other is parochial (when used as a knee jerk criticism against anyone outside Islington). It was used against me the other day. I’d rounded up 12 years of Biennial [...]

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Every little helps: crowdfunding for creatives?

Is crowdourcing a legitimate source of funding for creative organisations in Liverpool? Vicky Anderson is optimistic.

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Geeks, artists and inventors: Oggcamp comes to Liverpool

Oggcamp returns to Liverpool, with 3D printing, Raspberry Pi and Stephen Fry. Yes really - and you can go and participate, says Dan Lynch.

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State Of Independents

What is the Independents Biennial? And, more to the point, who runs it? Vicky Anderson explains who, what, why - and how.

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Not just cricket

For me cricket isn’t just about bats and balls - it’s about friendship and community. And Sefton Park CC says a lot about Liverpool too.

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Liverpool - Land of the Supermarkets

The British have a delightfully dysfunctional relationship with supermarkets. On the one hand, we’re continually being told that they’re the bad guys – selling us poorly produced, microwavable slop with all the nutritional value of cardboard, while shafting small farmers and producers along the way. Yet, conversely, it’s difficult to ignore the fact that they’re [...]

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Liverpool is getting left behind online

Liverpool risks getting forgotten in the race to get UK cities online, but it doesn’t have to be like that says Dan Lynch

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Liverpool elects Meh

Woo-hoo! Liverpool has its own elected Mayor! It’s Joe Anderson, that portly gentleman who appears in newspapers all the time shaking hands with anonymous, moneyed suits and wearing a rictus grin of the kind that says ‘I don’t like smiling, much’. Enormous things will change. When Joe is pictured shaking hands with his rictus and [...]

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Column: No-show limits

What can we reasonably expect from the people we go and see on stage? It’s a subject that’s been on my mind recently, since curiosity got the better of me and I went to see I Dreamed A Dream, the Susan Boyle musical, which is obviously not your usual SevenStreets fayre. But it got me [...]

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Running Scared?

Increasingly, charity runs are all over the country like a (nipple) rash. But what, exactly, are we running towards?

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Keep your head high, Aintree ladies

Another year, another Grand National. Whatever you think of the sport, the world famous steeplechase turns a worldwide spotlight onto Aintree racecourse for the three days of the meet; the actual race itself being transmitted to over 500 million viewers in 140 countries. No mean feat. It gathers an audience from those not normally swayed [...]

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