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	<description>notes from the revolution</description>
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		<title>Twitter and the Protection of Information Bill Black Tuesday Protests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zoom in to areas on the map to see how South Africans are pushing the #Blacktuesday campaign on Twitter Scridb filter]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2011/11/22/twitter-and-the-protection-of-information-bill-black-tuesday-protests/</link>
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		<title>On the march: Follow ANCYL march as mapped via twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monitor the ANC Youth League march against poverty between Johannesburg and Pretoria as it is covered and commented on twitter via this map below. Zoom in for tweets closer to the action and zoom out to monitor broader commentary or coverage. Use the Map Wiki tool below the map to add your own material and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2011/10/27/on-the-march-follow-ancyl-march-as-mapped-via-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Cape Town power failure mapped via Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cape Town's city-wide power failure as it is being mentioned on Twitter Scridb filter]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2011/09/28/cape-town-power-failure-mapped-via-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Open the door on state information&#8230; join me in a mission for the public good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to make a difference? If so, welcome....so do I. Yesterday I tweeted looking for people who may be interested in contributing to a web project for the public good but with 140 characters there's not much you can say about it. So here is my idea. But, first let me make something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2011/09/20/open-the-door-on-state-information-join-me-in-a-mission-for-the-public-good/</link>
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		<title>A murder map of South Africa [interactive]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've long wanted to experiment with mapping crime in South Africa but this has largely been impossible since the police statistics don't give us much to work with. Crimes are reported at policing district level and at provincial level making it pretty impossible to do anything particularly useful with them. This week I asked the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2011/09/16/a-murder-map-of-south-africa-interactive/</link>
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		<title>Malema drama: Tweets mapped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Threw together this interactive map showing Tweets from Johannesburg CBD near Luthuli House relating to the street drama around ANCY Youth League President Julius Malema's pending disciplinary hearing due to take place there. Zoom in and out of the map to get Tweets with the #malema hashtag from a broader geographic area. Click on icons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2011/08/30/malema-drama-tweets-mapped/</link>
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		<title>Indian restaurants of Gauteng [Map]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, on Saturday morning after I tweeted about my world map of freedom of information law, Simone Puterman of BizCommunity sent me a cheeky DM via twitter challenging me to produce a similar map of Indian restaurants in Jo'burg. Well I had a few idle minutes this afternoon so I whipped up a little webscrapper, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2011/08/21/indian-restaurants-of-gauteng-map/</link>
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		<title>Freedom of Information around the world (MAP)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was doing some research this morning for a presentation I have to do next week and came across a great paper on Freedom of Information around world. I took the information and imported it into a Google Fusion table to produce this map which shows the 90 countries around the world with freedom of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2011/08/20/freedom-of-information-around-the-world-map/</link>
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		<title>National Health Insurance Green paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If, like me, you have struggled to find the Green Paper for the SA government's proposed National Health Insurance scheme here it is. Nhi Green Paper 2 Scridb filter]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2011/08/12/national-health-insurance-green-paper/</link>
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		<title>A bird? A plane? An ANCYL apology? Maybe&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago there was a bit of a storm over some recorded comments of ANC Youth League spokesman Floyd Shivambu in which he told my colleague Jacques Dommisse to repeatedly "fuck off" during an interview. This morning Shivambu released this statement which I reproduce here in all its unedited glory. Some things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewtrench.com/2011/07/14/a-bird-a-plane-an-ancyl-apology-maybe/</link>
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