Steps on the democratic journey “In truth, given the chance, most people can make rational choices, take tough decisions, balance competing demands and behave decently. Your view of community empowerment boils down to whether you trust people or not.” (tags:…

Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Working Wikily: The fine lines between content and curriculum and self-directed learning and instruction …. “One of the personal learning threads that I’m following is working wikily – and relating this to…

Hazel Blears Blog « Cased Alice Casey of Involve on Hazel Blears’ 7 day blog (tags: alice_casey involve hazel+blears web24gov communitiesincontrol)

We Are Media » home “Join NTEN and nonprofit technology community and help us build a toolkit and instructional guides about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change…

Political lessons online « Policy and Performance “It’s also interesting to me to watch British political parties try to learn lessons from the American experience. There’s certainly a lot about our process that’s difficult, complicated and expensive. But, of course,…

Public lives: Does the internet know too much about us? – Features, Gadgets & Tech – The Independent Poor Dom! (tags: privacy community web2.0 independent socialmedia reference internet online)

BBC NEWS | UK | Councils launch charm offensive Council chiefs are reminding voters of the work they do, using images including a drunk girl vomiting in the street and a dog fouling a park. (tags: councils localgovuk news communications…

eGov monitor – A Policy Dialogue Platform | Promoting Better Governance “The massive use of Web technology to develop and deploy eGovernment services already made the Web a crucial tool for governments.” (tags: article government web web24gov) Innovation Exchange “The…

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

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…

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…

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…

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)

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…

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…

Georgina Henry: Welcome to the new Comment is free The Guardian’s Comment and blogging space has had a revamp. (tags: guardian commentisfree blogging politics media news journalism networkedjournalism)

Is Twitter Down? Does what it says on the, er, title bar (tags: twitter funny humor web2.0 mashup check internet down)

ICELE and how out-of-touch Gordon is with egov Paul Canning’s view on the ICELE business. (tags: ICELE slashgov lgedem localgovuk edemocracy egov) KnowMore Firefox Extension – Knowmore.org A firefox extension that helps you to shop ethically online. Hat tip: Tim…

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…

The Obvious?: Evolutionary zeal Euan Semple on social media and language (tags: euan+semple language socialmedia) Open Tech 2008 – 5th July in London. Open Tech 2008 is an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring…