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An EU Political MySpace?

From EU Observer: Plans are being developed to launch a social networking site for MEPs and MPs to boost contacts between politicians across Europe and promote a trans-European democracy. Myparl.eu – officially to be launched in October – is a…

ICELE – now you don’t

Poor old ICELE. First of all, Professor Stephen Coleman questioned it’s utility on the Connecting Bristol blog: I have been following e-democracy in the UK since its earliest manifestations in the work of UKCOD (UK Citizens e-Democracy), established in 1996.…

European e-Inclusion Awards

From eGov monitor: The European Commission has just launched the first ever European e-Inclusion Awards. As part of the European Commission’s e-Inclusion Initiative, the Awards will celebrate the best and most imaginative uses of Information and Communications Technology to reduce…

Better browsers, please

There has been a conversation going on in the forums of the Public Sector Social Media Community of Practice for little while now about the browsers made available to public sector workers. Most folk seem to be running something like…

links for 2008-05-16

rooreynolds.com: In search of the perfect blogging tool Roo Reynolds is looking for a Mac blog editor as good as Windows Live Writer. It doesn’t exist, frankly. (tags: blogging editor mac software windowslivewriter ecto marsedit) Do we need to better…

Google Reader

Am using Google Reader at the moment as the new version of NetNewsWire, which I foolishly downloaded, seems to have problems doing anything. There’s a number of new features that I need to investigate that weren’t around when I last…

Healthy scepticism

One of the problems of being a new media fanboy like me is that we sometimes get a bit too excited about this stuff, and fail to see some of the downsides of web 2.0. That’s why I have a…

Quick Question on Tagging

Just a quickie, this: when you are assigning tags to a piece of online content, how do you prefer to segregate different items on the list: with spaces – like del.icio.us with commas – like WordPress with spaces but with…