Harry Metcalfe: Governance happens in foggy weather
We need to reclaim human judgement, subjectivity and the primacy of direct experience as vital skills for leadership
Brilliantly interesting stuff from Bill Thompson: Writing the Public Internet.
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Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Delivering alpha performance reporting dashboards | Digital Health
- Origami – Design prototyping with Quartz Composer (free from Facebook)
- Daring Fireball: Microsoft, Past and Future – excellent read
- Splat the rat – our never ending web rationalisation | Digital Health
- The endemic flaw in the BBC’s digital transformation program – via @euan
- Queen’s Park: home of London’s first parish council
- How our workshop game confirmed all digital adoption is personal – @davidwilcox
- Health care, technology and the NHS | Tinder Foundation
- Work Place « Public Strategist – from @pubstrat
- The IC Space – “the place for Internal Communication professionals across government” via @comms2point0
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- hackpad – neat collaboration / wiki / collaborative editing thingy
- The BBC’s hi-tech failure: Don’t Mention It
- Catch up with Doug Belshaw’s Open Badges Learning Hour – Learning Pool
- Geneva E-Participation Day: Open Data and International Organisations | Tim’s Blog
- Heidegger on technology, and technodeterminism
- Review: Facebook Home | MIT Technology Review
- Free as in Freedom: Table of Contents
- The deep, dark secret of SEO | PandoDaily
- Create something every day — Thoughts on creativity — by @stef
- Free Javascript and Python eBooks | Coders Grid
What I’ve been reading
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- cpsrenewal.ca by Nick Charney: Mapping Internal Policy to the Hype Cycle – "I've been thinking a lot this week about how organizations issue policies to govern the use of new and emerging technologies."
- The BBC Micro can still teach us a lot – "The BBC Micro taught a generation of teenagers the joys of programming. It's time to re-engineer such a revolution"
- Amazon v. Apple « LRB blog – "Readers might be revelling in the lower prices they find on Amazon, but if the books they’re buying are ever less worth reading, it doesn’t seem much of a bargain."
- What is Dart? – O’Reilly Radar – "Dart [is] an open-source project that aims to enable developers to build more complex, highly performant apps for the modern web."
- MIT App Inventor – "To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior."
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What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.
- 2011 London Social Business Summit – Great content from this event.
- Introducing South West LocalGovCamp #swlocalgc « Carl’s Notepad – This should be a good one!
- ’100 million comments a year’ – mutual support and advice in a shrinking state – How government could be making better use of online communities – great stuff from Will Perrin.
- Misleading money-saving claims help no one – Ben Goldacre exposes the lazy thinking involved in some "research" about council spending – curiously promoted by CLG.
- BBC News – Google’s Chromebook – lost in the cloud? – Interesting review of the new Chrome based laptops.
- A little local difficulty – honestlyreal – A very useful primer on Local DirectGov
- How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs – Really nice workflow system.
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