I was very excited to see the NSW government take a great initiative and open an apps4nsw Public Competition - there are $100,000 in prizes (although I wonder if that’s my own taxpayer money back to me again?) for coming up with great apps that utilise government data.
Brilliant idea, and a lot of people I know are talking about it on Twitter. I have a few ideas up my sleeve so went to see what data sets are available.
A catalogue of NSW data and information sets will be available soon.
Oh dear. Oh well, they have this message about following them on Twitter.
Brilliant, I’ll go and look to see what data they have released.
One update and they’re not following anyone.
Thanks NSW Government. It’s a brilliant idea but maybe they needed to prepare a little further in advance before they released the idea.
Update: As of 21st September they have released their first dataset for the NSW Public Transport Data Exchange (TDX) Program. (I found that out via a friend on Facebook - their official twitter stream and website haven’t been updated yet).
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Definitely has massive potential, but will wait to see what happens :-)
They don’t even have an rss feed,
and it’s a dreamweaver site.
come off it you complainers. anyone tries anything with good intentions people like you whinge and whine. what have you done yourself lately ??
(PS: your “submit” button doesn’t render properly, miss perfect)
hey there Ger…oops, I mean PositiveGirl. It’s great you still read my blog, you really should give me a call so I can explain IP addresses to you properly one of these days.
We’re not whinging and whining, we’re pointing out that the marketing push was premature given the level of preparedness of the product - see words such as brilliant, excited, potential, and great initiative above. I think it’s a great idea and I’m very excited about the prospect of the competition. I just don’t think having “good intentions” is enough when you’re a business or department with such big budgets; being prepared and adequately implementing a project is what speaks more than good intentions. Samuel Johnson - “Hell is paved with good intentions.”
Thanks for the tip on the submit button, I’ll fix it.