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lgSHOUT! is another little service I have put together for local government, following on from LGSearch, which went a little way to fixing the problem of getting relevant search results. lgSHOUT! tries to do something about communication. The idea behind…
Here’s an interesting development: AOL have announced the purchase of social network Bebo for $850 million in cash. Previous coverage didn’t even mention AOL as a potential buyer. From BusinessWire: With a total membership of more than 40 million worldwide,…
Where do government and other public sector folk get their news from? Info4Local eGov Monitor GCN Kable Individual government department websites Any others? I wonder if there is a possibility for putting together a one-stop-shop for news, aggregating the popular…
Interesting news item this morning on eGov monitor: A new £4 million programme to help local authorities tackle climate change was announced by Environment Minister Phil Woolas and Local Government Minister John Healey today. The programme will spread existing best…
Dead Tree Web 2.0 Reading List – backpass version.. « backpass.org Matt Jukes’ take on the web 2.0 reading list (tags: matt+jukes, deadtreeweb2.0readinglist) Lifestream, but don’t tell me twice | jon bounds I guess this is what being made an…
I, like Nick Booth and presumably countless others, got an email from someone called Rohan Silva today, who has an @parliament email address. Rohan writes: I thought you might be interested in how Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson‘s speech yesterday…
The information authority is currently recruiting a Community and Stakeholder Manager. This is a great job, not least because it means you get to tell me what to do. Here’s some details: With senior-level communications and stakeholder-management experience in the…
Tom Watson, the Cabinet Office minister for web stuff, has been busy, first of all giving a speech on Government 2.0: Driving through the cultural change in all our communications that sees the internet, mobile and other new media as…
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Zuckerberg interview: What went wrong Great analysis by Jeff Jarvis (tags: facebook journalism) Data centres | Cool it! | Economist.com The Economist on the ecological issues around cloud computing, ie big data centres! (tags: economist…
…but they do have to be sensible about it. The UK blogosphere is getting jolly excited about the case of the Civil Serf blog (no point linking to it, it’s gone now) which has disappeared following mainstream media interest in…