On Tuesday evening we finally got confirmation from Downing Street that 50 bloggers were going to be given access to the G20 Summit as part of the G20Voice project that I’ve been managing for Oxfam GB, Comic Relief and Save the Children. G20Voice is a group of 50 bloggers inside Read more
The Pirates Dilemma View more presentations from mattjamesmason. (tags: business djs) I know it's an advert for a book, but he's saying some interesting things about copyright and what 'piracy' does for the economy. Also, it's nicely put together. And I like pirates. You can also go and visit Matt Read more
Sophia and I put on our glad-rags yesterday and went to the Institute of Electrical Engineers for the Sciencewise-erc Awards dinner. We were there to pick up the People’s Choice award as voted for by you the public. Actually, the reality is that the teachers and scientists who took part Read more
The Cabinet Office today published the list of hospitality accepted by Departmental Board Directors. It is dull, dull, dull. Just like it should be. I expect the same soporific effect when MPs finally publish their expenses in full.
We’ve had a few inches of snow in Wiltshire, the schools are closed, the lane is impassable, the garden is desperate for a snowman and the office will remain closed today. We’re still open for business though so please give me a call on 07720 297515 or email as usual.
Lord Toby Harris is proposing a debate in the House of Lords on February 12th. The proposal reads: Lord Harris of Haringey to call attention to the growth in the use of social networking internet sites by children and the adequacy of safeguards to protect their privacy and interests; and Read more
Mike Alderson from OpenEye DM'd (Twitter jargon for sending an email) me this evening. He was pondering the role of his blog vs twitter. So in the tradition of answering messages via the blog… For me the blog is the place to show your credentials. You can demonstrate you are Read more
Google Analytics provides a wealth of information, but for most of our projects the map of where the visitors come from is very skewed towards the UK, US and Australia. Apart from one project that is… The map for the DFID blogs has truly international footprint. Since the blogs Read more
Nick Palmer MP wrote last week to his mailing list: "Just a quick note to say that the email addresses of MPs who Greenepace think might sympathise with them over Heathrow are being swamped with thousands of identical emails that they've asked supporters to send. The effect of this is Read more
A week ago I joined a couple of Facebook groups and invited all my UK friends to join me. I used www.writetothem.com to send a email to my MP and I blogged about it here. 8,000 people have since joined the main group and yesterday the plans to change the Read more