An online notebook
Back onto one of my favourite subjects: bloggers’ anonymity. There’s plenty of background here. Paul Johnston wrote in the comments: Great to see this upswing in civil servant blogging, but quite understandably they seem to be anonymous. Very understandable in my opinion and in my view quite acceptable if that is what suits the individuals … Keep reading
In what is, as far as I am aware, the first instance of civil servant starting a blog because the new guidelines freed him up to do so, Mark O’Neill of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has begun a blog called Lost ConsCIOusness. Good on him. Do we need to start a list … Keep reading
Charlie Beckett writes entertainingly about the state of the presence of the political left in the UK blogosphere: The Online Socialists have various problems. No-one reads them. Guido Fawkes and his wicked Right-wing pals are far more entertaining and they know how to write for an online audience: scurriously, succinctly, directly. They are much more … Keep reading
I’ve noticed that quite a few folk who have installed their own version of WordPress (as opposed to those that use WordPress.com) haven’t got round to making the URLs (the bit that appears in the address bar of a browser) of their posts ‘human readable’. In other words, they look like http://www.myblog.com/?p=1027 rather than http://www.myblog.com/postsubject. … Keep reading
John Hayes, a Director at the Improvement & Development Agency, has started a blog – and started it really promisingly, too: So, having taking my own personal plunge into this Web 2 pool with this my first blog, I’m hoping I can encourage other local government staff and councilors to use this medium as an … Keep reading