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Drip, drip… more ICELE news

David Wilcox pointed me in the direction of the latest E-Government newsletter from Headstar, and their article about ICELE’s slow and rather painful death: In the medium term, the government is considering an overhaul of e-democracy policy which could bring…

links for 2008-06-08

The Five Questions Companies Ask About Social Media Great post from Jeremiah Owyang, thanks to Neville Hobson for the link (tags: blog business collaboration socialmedia research tips) paulcanning: Off with the pixies Paul’s typically vituperative take on Minister for the…

Windowless

For the first time in maybe more than ten years, I don’t have a machine running Windows in my possession. Last week, my Vista-running Acer laptop stopped working. Windows just wouldn’t load. It gave me a load of options to…

links for 2008-06-05

Georgina Henry: Welcome to the new Comment is free The Guardian’s Comment and blogging space has had a revamp. (tags: guardian commentisfree blogging politics media news journalism networkedjournalism)

A Catalyst for social innovation?

The UK Catalyst Awards are BERR and NESTA sponsored initiative which aims to: recognise everyday heroes who use technology to make a positive impact on the world around them. What’s more, you could get support to take your idea further…

Delivering online learning

I’ve had my attention brought to the Thirty Day Challenge, a free month long online course on internet direct marketing. Now, it’s not a subject I am particularly interested in, but I am interested in how the information is disseminated…

links for 2008-06-03

Is Twitter Down? Does what it says on the, er, title bar (tags: twitter funny humor web2.0 mashup check internet down)

Theo Tait on Gordon Burn

Nice, longish essay in the LRB this issue, by Theo Tait on Gordon Burn’s Born Yesterday which I have written about now and again. A more unified and organised book would have excluded many of Born Yesterday’s highlights: the brilliant…