New sites

So, I got busy over the last couple of weekends answering the question: "Cycling in Bradford - where is it on the Web?"

There's loads of stuff going on, but unless you know about it, it can be hard to find. So thanks to a great bit of PHP from  Steph Gray at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, and the social bookmarking site, delicious.com, within a couple of hours

www.bikebradford.org.uk

was born.

Simply a collection of links to cycling related stuff that should be of interest to people withing the district, the great thing is that the 'tags' allow the links to be indexed, and searched. 'Cos it uses delicious, it also means other people can contribute directly without going through a gatekeeper.

The next challenge then is to bring the sites within Bradford up to scratch - not an easy task, but as always, best to start near to home - with the Hammsters! Again, a little bit of work and with the help of wordpress.com, flickr, and Google Calendar...

http://hammsters.wordpress.com

My key themes at the moment are 'keep the data close to the people that care about the data - but make sure it's made available to share!"