As part of my preparation for my TEDxOldham talk - Internet Thinking for Cities - I ended up collecting together a number of blog posts and articles that helped inform my thinking.

As a general primer the work of Adam Greenfield, Dan Hill and Usman Haque is hard to match. In particular a primer of Adam's work for Wired, a manifesto for smart citizens and In Praise of Messy Cities.

And in the run up to the talk itself, these pieces were ones I found interesting:

• http://waag.org/nl/blog/manifesto-smart-citizens
• http://techplan.cityofchicago.org/executive-summary/
• http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/public-space-civilization-and-the-self/
• http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/blog/open-and-smart-cities-common-future
• http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/against-the-smart-city-on-cbcs-spark-this-week/
• http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2013/10/departments-to-studios.html