Simon Dickson, a consultant ‘bringing new media thinking to UK news and government’, has launched Findless (pronounced Find-less, rather than Findluss, which was my original reading!): a new editorialised search engine network. Why ‘findless’? Well, aside from hopefully being memorable,…

One of the frustrations of my job is when I am searching the web for information on what other councils are up to in my field. The trouble is that, by and large, I only really want to find results…

So, Scoble is going to start moderating comments. Fair enough – given the amount of abuse the guy receives on there, I am only surprised he hasn’t done it before. It’s a shame, really, that a chap who wants to…

According to the BBC: More than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research shows. Some 60% of UK government websites contain HTML errors, according to a study by the University of Southampton.…

Apparently the blog run by David Miliband, the UK government’s “Minister of Communities and Local Government”, costs the taxpayer £6,000 – whether that was a one off payment or an ongoing annual fee it doesn’t say. Clearly the government’s ability…

Pinch, punch, first of the month. Seamonkey released The one that got away – Philip Cowley on Blair’s defeats last night. Mr Cowley was my tutor at university in Hull. How to Manage Your Draft Blog Posts Council mumbles Microsoft…

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran blocks BBC Persian website The Iranian authorities have started to block the BBC’s Persian language internet site, for the first time. The BBC says the level of traffic to the site…

I have a job interview on Friday, for a job in Scrutiny at Chester City Council. Am quite confident and am looking forward to the idea of getting back into Scrutiny. Browsing the Council’s website, it would appear that some…

Have been so crap of late I thought I ought to bung up a bumper load of links today! Daily Telegraph: Profile of Steve Ballmer Google: Blog Search Search Engine Watch: Roundup Of Google Blog Search Commentary The Register: UK…

Interesting article in today’s Guardian Online supplement: Just when the government badly needs to show its competence at running large IT-based projects, along comes another wave of bad news. On Tuesday, parliamentary questions revealed that the cost of running Inland…