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An online notebook
I spent a most enjoyable time at the Department for Communities and Local Government today as a guest of Simon Berry, along with a rogue’s gallery of other bloggers and online networkers. It was a great chance to catch up…
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,…
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…
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)…
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?
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Following some of the points made on my post about Kubuntu and Linux yesterday, I’ve been wondering a bit more about free software and how it might help people make the most of their equipment. After all, software is expensive…