Blears blogging
In what must be the most exciting day in the Department for Communities and Local Government ever, which has seen the start of a Twitter feed and the publication of a major white paper, the latest news is that Hazel…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Quick picks from Communities in Control
Just had a chance to have a run through the executive summary of the white paper Communities in Control, published today by the department for Communities and Local Government, with a highlighter pen and picked out a few juicy bits.…
Another government twitterer
The Department for Communities and Local Government now has a Twitter feed, resplendant with a Hazel Blears avatar, as Simon Berry reports. More news coming out of CLG today to come later with the publication of the Communities in Control…
Rebooting America
The Personal Democracy Forum has published a free eBook called Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age. It’s full of great little essays by such luminaries as David Weinberger, Clay Shirky, Howard Rheingold and Jeff Jarvis.…
Communities in ‘Control’? Meh.
On the day that the results of a poll in London reveal that, while one in four Londoners would like to be a local politician, hardly anyone knows anything about them or what they do, Hazel Blears has a piece…
On consultation
On Thursday night I was lucky enough to be invited to Number 11 for a few drinks with various online luminaries, including a bunch of guys who went on Web Mission 08 and lots of lovely government webbies too, courtesy…
Three cheers for Dylan Jeffrey
I rather glossed over it at the time, because of the general excitement of the moment, but a remarkable thing happened a couple of days ago. A man called Dylan Jeffrey commented on this blog. Why is this so remarkable?…
Digital government and not being boring
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…
Further ICELE debate
Steven Clift rightly points folk to the discussions going on at the UK & Ireland eDemocracy exchange about the demise of ICELE, in the comments to my previous post on the topic. Here’s a sample of what folk are saying…
An EU Political MySpace?
From EU Observer: Plans are being developed to launch a social networking site for MEPs and MPs to boost contacts between politicians across Europe and promote a trans-European democracy. Myparl.eu – officially to be launched in October – is a…