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Monthly Archives: December 2007
We really do wish you a merry Christmas
Just before we all run off on our holiday-season holidays, we want to wish you a very merry Christmas and happy New Year! We hope you have a great time and we’ll speak to you in 2008… Bye for now!
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BBC on Facebook’s democratic capacity
The BBC have a piece on the democratic application of Facebook’s social capacity. I suspect that Facebook is more likely to affect legislation rather than ‘effect’ it (as the article’s strapline, perhaps mistakenly, claims) but it’s always good to see … Continue reading
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Maidstone Budget Simulator wraps up
Maidstone have just closed their budget consultation for this year, including their Budget Simulator which, in the month it was live, collected over 770 responses. They incentivised use of the Simulator by entering participants into a prize draw for a … Continue reading
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Wiki-Government
This article from ‘Democracy Journal’ is a very interesting quick read. It says it’s about ‘how open-source technology can make government decision-making more expert and more democratic’ but it’s really applicable to internet technology generally, not just open source (in … Continue reading
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Domain name ownership – squatting takes a new turn?
Back in the good old days of the internet, just as it was taking off, some people made a bit of cash from buying other companies’ domain names and then selling them back to them at a profit. Eventually a … Continue reading
Yet more people power in action
You may have seen recently the furore over ‘Beacon’, a new application introduced by Facebook. Beacon is a tool which tracks, when you’re signed into Facebook, what you do online and posts it to your Facebook profile. The idea behind … Continue reading
Open source wins again
I set up a new blog on wordpress about a week ago, not work related, but a handy opportunity to have more of a play with wordpress. I’ve spent the first week working on it, populating it with content ready … Continue reading
Citizenspace.com relaunches
Drum roll . . . trrrrrrrrrrr . . . we’re proud to announce the re-launch of CitizenSpace.com! Citizenspace was originally launched as a consultation portal in 2005, however in the last few months we’ve been having a re-think about what … Continue reading
Better late than never . . .
YourPlaceormine.org.uk is way out of date (over a year old now), however it’s definitely worth a mention. Run as the virtual debate platform for English Heritage’s national conference, the site is a great example of making the most out of … Continue reading
The Public Office
This is good: The Public Office. They ‘believe that public servants, industry leaders and other stakeholders should work together formally across their organisational boundaries to design effective and cost-efficient provision that is driven fully by the needs of the end-users’. … Continue reading
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