A bit of a dig about reveals that Stratford isn’t the only local authority on Twitter…
There’s also:
Anyone know any others?
Month: June 2008
Local government on Twitter!
I’m delighted to note that Stratford-on-Avon District Council has its own account on Twitter. What is even better is that they display the badge on their homepage!
This is just the sort of intiative that we’re looking for in various places, like the Social Media CoP, for example. Fine, there are arguments about Twitter, in terms of how many folk actually use it, its notorious flakiness, etc etc… but sometime you just have to give things a go. And it’s great that someone in local government is doing just that.
links for 2008-06-12
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The Prime Minister is on FriendFeed!
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The PoI taskforce have a blog. Quite right too. Thanks to Shane for the pointer.
Andrew O’Hagan
I’m reading the marvellous The Atlantic Ocean by Andrew O’Hagan at the moment. It’s a collection of essays, mostly taken from The London Review of Books and is a wonderful eclectic collection of writing. Take this little gem, for example, from the opening lines of a piece about celebrity memoirs:
If you want to be a somebody nowadays, you’d better start by getting in touch with your inner nobody, because nobody likes a somebody who can’t prove they’ve been nobody all along.
Thoroughly recommended.
It’s stuff like this that proves, I think, that print has a future. Longer essays like these, don’t really work on the web. It’s hard to concentrate on the screen for too long, and often these pieces need mulling over, book or paper in hand, curled up on the sofa.
links for 2008-06-09
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PicLens transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing photos and videos across the web. Via John Naughton.
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“Whatever the merits of his other changes, Harding should restore leaders to their proper place.”
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The Pirate’s Dilemma tells the story of how youth culture drives innovation and is changing the way the world works.
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Nick Booth: “We can’t bridge the digital divide simply by providing internet access.”
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Nick Booth pokes holes in a Charity Commission consultation document, then finds it almost impossible to give the CC his feedback.