How I use online stuff

Carl has posted a couple of interesting bits about how he uses social websites, and how this is changing: Shaking up my social networks Why can’t Online be more like Offline? I don’t tend to think about what I use – probably because this stuff is now completely embedded into work… but a quick scan … Keep reading

The pipe problem

At Public Sector Online (which Elaine did a marvellous job of writing up on the LP blog) last Monday, the question was asked – as it often is at these events – what could be done about the fact that the majority of folk working in government, access to the common social websites is blocked. … Keep reading

CityCamp London

Dominic and his team at FutureGov did a fabulous job of running CityCamp London this weekend. Sadly I could only make Friday afternoon’s ‘stimulate’ session, which saw a roomful of people at the RSA get together to listen to some great talks about cities, technology and design. But following the tweets over the weekend for … Keep reading

Oh dear, Andrew Marr…

I don’t tend to respond to this sort of thing, but this one pressed several of my buttons. The so-called “citizen journalists” will never offer a real replacement to newspapers and television news, he told Cheltenham Literature Festival. He said: “Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all. A lot … Keep reading