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The Register reports on issues with planning and land searches, related to recent implementations of Arcus Global’s software. No doubt rivals of Arcus will be rubbing their hands with glee, but it’s really hard to know where the problem lies.…
Although much of what I post about ‘AI’ is sceptical, I am in fact a daily user. Whether it is for helping with technical matters, or sorting out my thinking on some topic or other, I find Google’s Gemini particularly…
Am concerned that my previous post may have sounded like some kind of cry for help. It wasn’t! Everything is fine 🙂
Am having another one of my mini (online-) identity crises. To be clear – this is not a real crisis and almost certainly doesn’t matter at all, so please don’t be concerned for me. I would though value any thoughts…
I have really been enjoying the Past, Present Future podcast lately. The recent series on George Orwell and WW2 was great. Made me dig out my copy of Orwell’s Essays for a read.
LOTI’s Eddie Copeland – Putting in place the enabling conditions for AI: Many organisations seem to be falling for the same mistake we’ve been trying to undo with digital government for the past 15 years: thinking that this is just…
A pleasant trip at the weekend to Oxburgh Hall, trying to make some use of our new National Trust memberships.
Kristin at Newark and Sherwood District Council shares Discussing Practical AI for Projects: The effectiveness of AI ultimately depends on the quality of data and the proficiency of its users. It was a valuable opportunity to exchange perspectives, and many…
While I have an account on Mastodon, I never look at it – I just lack the bandwidth for another site to check. There are on or two people who post there, though, whose stuff I enjoy and wouldn’t want…
Terence Eden writes [the] NHS Goes To War Against Open Source: …this is not the correct response to the purported threat by Mythos. Neither the AI Safety Institute nor the NCSC recommend this action. While there may be some increase…
A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com: At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a…
Another one for my almost-bulging AI scepticism evidence folder – Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’: Crane said that he was monitoring the agent as it deleted this data.…
There’s another LGRCamp coming up, this time an East Midlands flavoured version, being held in Newark. It’s on 20th May. Book your place now!
Tom Wynne-Morgan, Deputy Director for CustomerFirst posts on the GDS blog – Testing a different way to improve complex public services: CustomerFirst is exploring how teams can solve whole problems in practice when authority, incentives and accountability are fragmented, and…
Sourcefeed creates standalone RSS feeds: No website, no newsletter. Just your words, delivered to your readers’ rss reader. It’s an appealing, if eccentric idea, explained more in a blog post.
I was very sad to learn of the recent death of Conrad Taylor. We met a few times – mostly through Steve Dale – and collaborated one or twice in the early days of my career, when ‘knowledge management’ was…
Marcin Wichary – Tactical dark modes: Programmers’ fondness for dark mode was a result of decades of bad display technologies. The early CRTs were so awful, the burn-in risks so real, and the pixels so fuzzy and headache-inducing, that you…
A lot of folk in local government are chewing over the problem of when to transform during LGR, and when to play things safe. My personal take is this: keep the strategy and the vision transformational, but be more cautious…
A little reminder – if you needed one – that I host blogs for free for local government use, whether by councils or individuals, or teams. I like to encourage blogging as a practice – working out in the open…
Interesting case study published by the LGA about Nottingham City Council – Embedding a culture of change through targeted team support: This case study explores how Nottingham City Council is embedding a culture of change through the in-house delivered Ways…