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Learning from Obama

One of the interesting topics to emerge from 2gether08, specifically the sessions on whether UK politics is ‘big enough’ for the web, and ‘egov to wegov‘, was where we stand on campaigning online, especially in comparison with the US. This…

On consultation

On Thursday night I was lucky enough to be invited to Number 11 for a few drinks with various online luminaries, including a bunch of guys who went on Web Mission 08 and lots of lovely government webbies too, courtesy…

links for 2008-07-04

Public lives: Does the internet know too much about us? – Features, Gadgets & Tech – The Independent Poor Dom! (tags: privacy community web2.0 independent socialmedia reference internet online)

2gether no more

So, it’s all over. 2gether08, Steve Moore‘s vision of getting good people from the media, government, third sector, social entrepreneurs and the world of webbies together, was a fantastic couple of days in the (mostly) sunshine. There is so much…

Posterous

Posterous is the easiest blogging platform in the world to use. No, really. All you have to do to get started is to send an email to post@posterous.com – no signup needed to begin with. I have given it a…

Flipping ‘eck

I gave in on Saturday, and bought myself one of these beauties: The quality of the recorded video is pretty high, better than your average mobile phone, I’d say – and certainly better than my iPhone which doesn’t do video…

Thing are coming 2gether

I am looking forward to the 2gether festival this Wednesday and Thursday, lots of cool people coming, and lots of exciting sessions to attend. You can find out more at the event’s blog, or by looking around the associated social…

links for 2008-06-29

BBC NEWS | UK | Councils launch charm offensive Council chiefs are reminding voters of the work they do, using images including a drunk girl vomiting in the street and a dog fouling a park. (tags: councils localgovuk news communications…

Derek Wyatt TV

Derek Wyatt, member of parliament for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, has a rather nice site bringing together all his questions in Parliament on video. What a great idea! A shame, though, that clicking on the thumbnails of the videos produces some…

Go Home, Bill

Robert X Cringely on Bill Gates’ retirement: If we were to place the importance of Bill Gates in the history of both Microsoft and the personal computer industry he’d be up there with most anyone. I’m not here to claim…