DigitalGov.news is now GovFeed.digital!

Today, I made DigitalGovNews GovFeed.digital – an aggregated stream of updates from sites mostly publishing about digital in government.

It’s very simple – just a single page of PHP and a stylesheet. It sucks in the RSS feeds from a number of sources and publishes them in one place.

It refreshes itself every 4 hours, and sticks a ‘New’ label on anything less than a day old.

My original aim was to try and make it easier for people to follow individual blogs about all things digital in government. Hopefully it does that, and is useful!

One way teams can share the service is by using the mega RSS feed to subscribe in an MS Teams channel – this way all the content will be automatically displayed in a place everyone can easily access.

Am open to suggestions and feedback – just get in touch with any thoughts you have, including on additional sources to add.

The sites feeding DigitalGovNews at the moment are:

  • Catherine Howe
  • Cumberland Council’s digital team
  • Dave Briggs (of course!)
  • Digital Newark and Sherwood
  • Essex Digital Service
  • GDS
  • LOTI
  • Luton DDaT
  • Matt Wood-Hill
  • Matt Jukes
  • Richard Pope
  • Steve Messer
  • Test, Learn and Grow
  • Tom Loosemore
  • Will Callaghan

Please let me know what you think I should add!

(This list will be updated as sources get added and removed.)

Changelog

  • 19 June 2026 – added the Test, Learn and Grow blog
  • 16 June 2026 – added Steve Messer’s blog
  • 12 June 2026: – following a legal communication about trademarks, I took a deep breath and switched the whole site to GovFeed.digital, and put in place 301 redirects for the old domain which ought to work for web as well as RSS traffic.
  • 10 June 2026:
      • Added a master RSS feed that puts all the included posts into a single new feed, if people want to subscribe to that, along with a linked RSS icon.
      • Also separated out the sources into a separate source.php file to make house-keeping easier.
      • Added Google Analytics, along with a consent banner
      • Save the state of the filters between sessions in local browser storage
      • Finally, added Cumberland Council’s digital team, and Matt Wood-Hill’s blogs to the list.
  • 3 June 2026 – added the ability to hide the intro paragraphs
  • 29 May 2026 – added a filter section so users can choose what feeds appear

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