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Stuff I have bookmarked for March 4th through March 8th: Finding a political navigator – Neville's thoughtful view on the Director of Digital Engagement post. How to open source your stuff at Helpful Technology – Steph on sharing your code…
Cambridgeshire County Council have put up some videos on their YouTube channel from the leaders of the three main political groups on the Council. The aim of the videos are to encourage people to put themselves forward to become councillors.…
I wrote a little while ago about how council’s websites might look, and ventured the idea that perhaps all that is needed is a big search box. Look what Cheltenham Borough Council have got now! OK, so it isn’t the…
Last week, the Cabinet Office published a new action plan for government and open source, to level the playing field when it comes to procuring software. So we consider that the time is now right to build on our record…
Stuff I have bookmarked for February 26th through March 3rd: Getting Started: gadgets.* API – Gadgets – Google Code – Via @lesteph – create Google Gadgets to go on things like iGoogle pages. The Times & CUNY (and others) go…
…that is struggling with some of this stuff. Take a look at Phil Bradley’s marvellous post, railing against the attitudes of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals): The next section really did make my jaw drop. “In…
I wrote a little while back about a fairly terrible website being used by Cambridgeshire’s Transport Commission to consult people on their views. Cambridge News now reports: A PROBE into Cambridgeshire’s transport crisis – including the idea of a congestion…
Didn’t you know cars come from out of the ground? 🙂 Taken near Waterbeach Station, this morning.
I’m currently having a good sort out of this blog – and will be relaunching it with quite a few changes in the near future. I have found that running a self-hosted blog is a bit like running a PC,…
A quick note on the LocalGovCamp site on who should consider attending. And on The Connected Republic, a call to local gov folk in other nations to consider running their own event.