{"id":4551,"date":"2011-08-11T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T10:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2011-08-11T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T10:34:59","slug":"mike-butchers-piece-on-london-riots-and-tech-is-the-best-ive-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/mike-butchers-piece-on-london-riots-and-tech-is-the-best-ive-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Butcher&#8217;s piece on London Riots and tech is the best I&#8217;ve seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a crazy world when Mike Butcher is putting together some of the best analysis on the use of technology during the London Riots. <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.techcrunch.com\/2011\/08\/11\/absolute-explosion-%E2%80%94-how-blackberry-bbm-fed-the-riots-says-contact\/\">This Techcrunch piece<\/a> feels like the in-depth stuff the Sunday newspapers used to be known for.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And one cannot blame the technology. The underlying causes of the riots and looting could be many. Boredom, unemployment, a bad economy, a consumerist culture that puts value in possessions \u2013 take your pick of underlying causes. In the north London borough of Haringey youth clubs were shut after the youth services budget was slashed by 75%. Gang experts, MPs and sector workers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katiebacon.co.uk\/blackberrys-bbm-london-riots-vulnerable-young-people\/\">warned on 29th July<\/a> that the lack of youth services would feed a growing gang culture, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katiebacon.co.uk\/blackberrys-bbm-london-riots-vulnerable-young-people\/\">been described<\/a> as \u201ca community beyond the community\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, this community now has a powerful, enterprise grade, network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonderful piece, Mike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a crazy world when Mike Butcher is putting together some of the best analysis on the use of technology during the London Riots. This Techcrunch piece feels like the in-depth stuff the Sunday newspapers used to be known for. And one cannot blame the technology. The underlying causes of the riots and looting could be many. Boredom, unemployment, a bad economy, a consumerist culture that puts value in possessions \u2013 take your pick of underlying causes. In the north London borough of Haringey youth clubs were shut after the youth services budget was slashed by 75%. Gang experts, MPs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-web-2point0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1bp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}