Definitely A List

Big shout out to our two local blogging superstars.
Both Bob and Transpontine make the top three hundred most influencial UK blogs this month.

Lockdown

Dave Briggs has written a post about browsers and other online tools in the public sector that set me thinking. Dave’s perplexed about why there’s a resistance to a number of tools that he (and lots of us) find helpful:
I’d really like to know the reasons - the real reasons - why, bearing all [...]

Friend Wheel

Thanks to Robin for the link to Friend Wheel, which is a visual representation of the links between my Facebook friends.

What the web can do

Now this is just about the coolest geek thing I’ve seen this year.
(with thanks to Patrick)

Against You: A Manifesto in Favor of Audience

For one reason or another I subscribe to Change This, which brings me manifestos - mainly about management, but not exclusively.
And not today where, instead, I get Against You: A Manifesto in Favor of Audience by Andrew Keen.  Andrew argues that Web 2.0 is the author of the end of shared culture as we slide [...]

Using mobile technology in local government

I’ve got a post up on the City Mayors website about mobile technology and local government.

3D Cricket

If I thought I could have got away with it, and if I’d known about it this morning maybe I’d have been tempted to have Cricinfo - 3D running on my desktop this morning as England managed to win their second game in a row.

As it was I made do with the pictures provided by [...]

More on Political Party Websites

David Wilcox has taken what I had to say about political parties web presence in Lewisham and run with it (pausing to say some very nice things about this blog):
I suspect this [encouraging more civic online activity] is going to come from individual activist bloggers rather than a speedy transformation in the way that the [...]

Having left a comment over at David’s about his post on Digital Dialogues I did promise (in an email) that I’d expand on the thoughts I left there.I argued that political parties (particularly at local level) should:
stop believing the press they get and recognise the strengths they have in being a persuader for better civic [...]

Digital Dialogues

Ross from the Hansard Society has been kind enough to send me a copy of the interim report that he’s done evaluating government’s use of web 2.0 stuff, blogs and forums and so on.
Much of the above the radar (in blogging terms) interest in this has been in how David Miliband’s blog would fare. [...]