A Swedish Councillor, a German Professor, and a Dutch Civil Servant walk into a bar. No honestly they did, today in Norwich at the eVoice conference. We’ve also heard from Cllr Mary Reid, Euan Semple, Stephen Hilton, Cllr Daniel Cox and seen the World Premiere of the CivicSurf film. Still Read more
David Wilcox and I walked down the Embankment last summer and talked about his idea for social reporting. This spring it has gathered some momentum and today he and Dave Briggs are at the Digital Inclusion Conference at the Brewery in London. They have created a site to provide some Read more
Ploddledygook: when the police try to be overly corporate. My favourite was from Lincolnshire Police: "The ambition of Lincolnshire Police is to: focus on the citizen, achieve the highest standards of professionalism, deliver excellent performance and so inspire confidence amongst the people we serve." "Could they have an ambition to Read more
The British Medical Journal has published (behind a payment firewall) a report saying that suicide is promoted on the web. There are the usual calls for Internet Service Providers to "pursue strategies that would maximise the likelihood that sites aimed at preventing suicide are sourced first." Paul Canning has written Read more
The Obama08 campaign doesn’t stop amazing me. Today Michelle Obama emailed me to show me a video (shared via YouTube of course) from The Bronx High School for Performance and Stagecraft in a tough part of the Bronx (are there wimpy parts of the Bronx??). The video is incredibly natural. Read more
Professor Stephen Coleman is getting into his blogging. Yesterday he questioned the role of ICELE and the comments section has hotted up awaiting the arrival of someone to represent ICELE. Professor Coleman feels that ICELE has produced very little (and the little they have produced seems to be quite well Read more
That arch-sceptic of bloggers, Professor Stephen Coleman, has succumbed to the lure of blogging (for a week at least) as a guest blogger on Connecting Bristol. He’s just returned from an intellectually challenging conference in Amsterdam to pose some points about the changing nature of citizenship: 1. The rules of Read more
The Audit of Political Engagement series is the Hansard Society’s annual political check-up of the nation’s health. It includes original poll data from surveys conducted by Ipsos MORI, which allow yearly comparisons to be made about the British public’s attitude to politics and their level of engagement with the political Read more
Having recently dipped my toe into the TwitterWorld (or whatever it is called) my attention (h/t Simon Dickson) was drawn to the new Twitttering from no.10 who then today drew my attention to their new Flickr account. Personally I’m not sure about Twitter. I think it is because it is Read more
The talented folks from Norfolk who ran the X-factor session at the symposium have now posted their evaluation on YouTube. Well done guys. You’ve joined a small group who have actually posted something about their attendance at the symposia. A group that sadly doesn’t include its sponsor the DCLG or Read more