An online notebook
There have been a number of posts popping up around the use of the social web within government, both as a reaction to discussions of the civil service guidelines for online participation and to the need to provide the tools and skills to public servants to make their interventions effective. Firstly, the guidelines, about which … Keep reading
Charles Leadbeater – he of We-Think fame – has a piece in this week’s Spectator called ‘The web is the most conservative force on Earth‘. Given the publication this article was appearing in, I wasn’t sure where it was going, but it turned out to be all about archiving: Archiving is not regarded by most … Keep reading
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, we have the guidance. We knew this was coming, because eGovernment minister Tom Watson told … Keep reading
Mike Butcher lays into the BBC over web innovation: I think the BBC should do more, a LOT more, to hook into the innovation happening in technology companies in the private sector, and at the same time allowing private sector companies to innovate around the products the BBC produces. And that does not mean just … Keep reading
Just a quickie, this: when you are assigning tags to a piece of online content, how do you prefer to segregate different items on the list: with spaces – like del.icio.us with commas – like WordPress with spaces but with multi-word tags in speech marks, like Flickr? Would be interesting to know people’s thoughts.