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Dave

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links for 2008-06-20

The demise of ICELE | Delib Blog Gez Smith of Delib on The ICELE debacle (tags: icele edemocracy delib slashgov lgedem)

Three cheers for Dylan Jeffrey

I rather glossed over it at the time, because of the general excitement of the moment, but a remarkable thing happened a couple of days ago. A man called Dylan Jeffrey commented on this blog. Why is this so remarkable?…

Getting wiki with it

Interesting stuff going on at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with a wiki being built by Ben Hammersley using MediaWiki with a bit of skinning and the addition of a few plugins, like that which adds social network type features…

ICELE Press Release

It’s a bit like picking a scab, this – kinda painful but at the same time irresistable. Anyway, seeing as this blog has become semi-official place for ICELE-related news, I thought it only reasonable to provide the latest in the…

The Webbies’ Union?

Attending my first TeaCamp for aaaaaages yesterday, I had the surprise pleasure of bumping into Paul Canning, everyone’s favourite eGov firebrand. Paul was buzzing about the recent Public Sector Forums meetup, which featured plenty of Better Connected related dust-ups, but…

links for 2008-06-18

paulcanning: Ads on local council websites? Paul has concerns about Councils displaying ads on their sites. i’m with him on this one! (tags: ads councils slashgov lgedem egov websites) Online Conference – an IDeA Breakthrough? | John’s Idea IDeA’s John…

Civil Servants and the Social Web

There has been quite a discussion in recent times about the guidance for civil servants on how they should interract with the social web: see Emma and Nick for some of what has been said. Well, now, as Jeremy announces,…

links for 2008-06-17

OneSpot Makes Publishing Personalized Memetrackers Simple Onespot looks like a really interesting way for organisations to monitor their RSS feeds – pulling in related content automatically. (tags: review rss onestop aggregation news) Test Pilot Flock 2.0 Beta(one) | Flock The…

Personal Democracy Forum

Interesting article on TechCrunch about the Personal Democracy Forum taking place in New York next week: It’s also time for more industry leaders to push politicians to take a more forward-thinking approach to how government distributes public information. We hear…

links for 2008-06-16

dria.org » Blog Archive » Field Guide to Firefox 3 Everything you need to know about the new version of everyone’s favourite browser (tags: firefox firefox3 guide browser reference mozilla browsers howto) Choose your words carefully, the blink media revolution…

More local gov twittering

A bit of a dig about reveals that Stratford isn’t the only local authority on Twitter… There’s also: St Helens Southend Barnet Hillingdon Anyone know any others?

Local government on Twitter!

I’m delighted to note that Stratford-on-Avon District Council has its own account on Twitter. What is even better is that they display the badge on their homepage! This is just the sort of intiative that we’re looking for in various…

links for 2008-06-12

downingstreet – FriendFeed The Prime Minister is on FriendFeed! (tags: friendfeed primeminister number10 gordonbrown) Power of Information Task Force The PoI taskforce have a blog. Quite right too. Thanks to Shane for the pointer. (tags: government powerofinformation blogging)

Andrew O’Hagan

I’m reading the marvellous The Atlantic Ocean by Andrew O’Hagan at the moment. It’s a collection of essays, mostly taken from The London Review of Books and is a wonderful eclectic collection of writing. Take this little gem, for example,…

links for 2008-06-09

PicLens | Immersive Views Across the Web PicLens transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing photos and videos across the web. Via John Naughton. (tags: apple extension plugin firefox photo video) Peter Willby on The Times newspaper…

I got me a MicroTrack!

I’ve been after a decent audio recorder for a while, and on the recommendations of Neville Hobson, who regularly blogs about such matters, I opted for an M-Audio MicroTrack 2. And very nice it is too. I’m still waiting to…

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…