Saturday, 31 May, 2008

Ads in Feeds? Please, no.

Hmmm. So FeedBurner is going to start allowing folk to embed Adsense in their RSS feeds. I don’t like ads on blogs much, I have to say, and getting content through RSS usually lets you avoid them. I really don’t…

Friday, 30 May, 2008

Further ICELE debate

Steven Clift rightly points folk to the discussions going on at the UK & Ireland eDemocracy exchange about the demise of ICELE, in the comments to my previous post on the topic. Here’s a sample of what folk are saying…

An EU Political MySpace?

From EU Observer: Plans are being developed to launch a social networking site for MEPs and MPs to boost contacts between politicians across Europe and promote a trans-European democracy. Myparl.eu – officially to be launched in October – is a…

Thursday, 29 May, 2008

ICELE – now you don’t

Poor old ICELE. First of all, Professor Stephen Coleman questioned it’s utility on the Connecting Bristol blog: I have been following e-democracy in the UK since its earliest manifestations in the work of UKCOD (UK Citizens e-Democracy), established in 1996.…

Monday, 26 May, 2008

Saturday, 24 May, 2008

Tuesday, 20 May, 2008

European e-Inclusion Awards

From eGov monitor: The European Commission has just launched the first ever European e-Inclusion Awards. As part of the European Commission’s e-Inclusion Initiative, the Awards will celebrate the best and most imaginative uses of Information and Communications Technology to reduce…

Better browsers, please

There has been a conversation going on in the forums of the Public Sector Social Media Community of Practice for little while now about the browsers made available to public sector workers. Most folk seem to be running something like…

Saturday, 17 May, 2008

links for 2008-05-16

rooreynolds.com: In search of the perfect blogging tool Roo Reynolds is looking for a Mac blog editor as good as Windows Live Writer. It doesn’t exist, frankly. (tags: blogging editor mac software windowslivewriter ecto marsedit) Do we need to better…

Friday, 16 May, 2008

Google Reader

Am using Google Reader at the moment as the new version of NetNewsWire, which I foolishly downloaded, seems to have problems doing anything. There’s a number of new features that I need to investigate that weren’t around when I last…