An online notebook
An online notebook
Tom Watson reports via Twitter that MySociety’s FixMyStreet is now embedded in DirectGov. On the page in question, a boxout gives you the option of reporting a problem via FixMyStreet rather than through the usual route of DirectGov linking you…
Paul Canning points us to some remarkably good stuff from government web folk from across the pond in the States: a white paper called Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government. Paul writes: That such a document could exist is solely…
Here are the notes I mananged to make at CloudCamb, which was organised jolly well by Matt Wood (MZA on twitter). Simone Brunozzi, Technical Evangelist, Amazon Web Services (simon on twitter) Cloud computing helps answer the ‘prediction problem’ – knowing…
The Social Media Exchange is an event being organised by Jude Habib of Sound Delivery, and is happening on 26 January at the Resource Centre on Holloway Road in London. You can find out more by downloading this PDF. According…
RSS is a great technology, one of those that underpins the new usefulness of the web. It’s a simple way of keeping in touch with what is happening in lots of different places, without having to keep visiting lots of…
This is a useful gadget for anyone who likes sharing their Powerpoint decks using Slideshare. It adds a button to Powerpoint 2007 (just Windows at the moment, though a Mac version is coming, apparently) which automatically uploads to Slideshare, without…
Teacamps are the rather British regular get togethers for people interested in cool webby stuff in government. They take place every other Thursday at the House of Fraser cafe on Victoria Street. Turnout has been a little disappointing of late,…
Just recently, I have stopped using the WordPress inbuilt editor, which runs in the web browser, and have started using MarsEdit – a piece of desktop software I have previously been rather unkind about – to write my blog posts.…
Stuff I have bookmarked for December 7th through December 15th: World Economic Forum launches social media initiative | Media | guardian.co.uk – The World Economic Forum has launched a number of new several social media tools and is inviting web…
Whilst beavering away this week in Stockholm on Cisco08, I had a chance to play with a few different video hosting services, namely YouTube, Vimeo and Blip. Here’s what I found: YouTube YouTube was the default choice for me going…