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Stuff I have bookmarked for March 4th through March 8th:

• Finding a political navigator – Neville's thoughtful view on the Director of Digital Engagement post.
• How to open source your stuff at Helpful Technology – Steph on sharing your code the simple way.
• How To Add A Forum To Your Thesis Themed WordPress Blog | The Expand2Web Blog – Useful example of getting WordPress and phpBB to look alike
• votewise.co.uk » Compare Candidates – Before You Vote – "Votewise is a completely free public information service that tells you when an election is held in your area, who the candidates are and what they stand for."
• Has Amazon stepped on their own foot with the Kindle app? | Smoking Apples – Interesting – you can now get the Kindle ebook experience on an iPhone!

Stuff I have bookmarked for February 26th through March 3rd:

• Getting Started: gadgets.* API – Gadgets – Google Code – Via @lesteph – create Google Gadgets to go on things like iGoogle pages.
• The Times & CUNY (and others) go hyperlocal « BuzzMachine – "The New York Times is about to announce that it is starting a hyperlocal product called The Local working with our students at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism."
• "Magazeen": Free Magazine-Look WordPress Theme – '“We’ve created the Magazeen theme to try and pump as much style and functionality into a WordPress theme to give people something they might not expect from their standard WordPress theme. There really is very few limits to what WordPress handle, so we’ve built in a lot of custom features and options to give people a little taste of what is possible, and how some small functionality tweaks can make a huge difference to the overall experience of browsing a blog. On top of that we’ve wrapped all that functionality up in a really cool and modern theme, with nice big title fonts, and a stylish colour scheme."
• Piwik – Web analytics – Open source – "Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages…"
• WordPress Wiki Plugin – "This Plugin will transform WordPress into a custom knowledge Base application to power your documentation needs"

Stuff I have bookmarked for February 9th through February 25th:

• And action! UKgovweb YouTubers – TAKE 22 – Neil's list of UKGovWeb online video action. Nice work!
• Easily search Scottish government websites – Scotweb2 – Duncan Stephen has built a Scottish version of LGSearch – great work!
• London Summit: digital engagement done right – Steph on the FCO's efforts to get folk involved in the London Summit online
• The sorry state of Labour on the internet | jackthurston.com – "As a party-approved intervention into the blogosphere, Labourlist strikes me as a particularly ham-fisted way for Labour to energise its existing supporters and reach out to new ones."
• Lefora forum hosting – This does for forums what Blogger and WordPress.com do for blogs. Cool!
• Report of the Consultative Group on the Past – "This is Slugger O’Toole’s new consultative website, offering you the chance to comment on the detail of the recently-published Report of the Consultative Group on the Past. It is intended to start a wider civic conversation on this issue."

Stuff I have bookmarked for February 2nd through February 7th:

• Social Innovation Lab Kent – "SILK is a way of working that puts people and their everyday experiences at the centre of policymaking and service design."
• digitalresearchtools / FrontPage – "This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively."
• Passenger Focus – Putting Rail Passengers First – "We are an independent public body set up by the Government to protect the interests of Britain's rail passengers."
• Clay Shirky: online crowds aren’t always wise – "Clay Shirky, leading commentator on internet technologies and author of Here Comes Everybody, last night backed away from his earlier enthusiasm for the online wisdom of crowds in democratic decision-making. He suggested that Government use of social media should focus more on “small groups of smart people arguing with each other”, than national-scale engagement online."
• City of Lincoln Council – Planning & Building Control – Plan – Lincoln Council provide Google Map of planning applications on there site – data courtesy of planningalerts.com – good work all round!

Stuff I have bookmarked for January 28th through February 1st:

• UK GovCamp 09: a sense of progress – Fabulous roundup of Saturday's event from that man Simon Dickson
• FeedDemon to Sync with Google Reader? – This is potentially fabulous news. Google Reader is so much better than Newsgator's online offering…
• Advice to a new Tuttle-meister « The Tuttle Club – How to run your own Tuttle-like club
• About my Final IT Project « Fiona’s Final IT Project – "I am currently completing a final project module for an MSc in Business Information Systems Management at Middlesex University in order to further develop a very keen interest in Information Systems. I have created this blog in order to journal my progress and research findings from first-cut proposal to final draft. I hope you can join me on my journey."
• The Social Media Exchange – The WordPress based social reporting site I put together for this great event.