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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Disability and the internet
As we’ve mentioned before, one of the biggest concerns for clients looking to take their work online is whether doing so is exclusionary to some groups. To a degree this misses the point, that if we believe we currently have … Continue reading
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Finally a council gets it!
Great e-Democracy work is coming out of Northamptonshire County Council at the moment, along the lines we’ve been advocating for a while. First of all, they’re one of the many clients using our Budget Simulator this year. Nothing unusual with … Continue reading
Password protected e-consultations – now even worse
It’s a perennial theme for this blog perhaps, but last week we saw some online consultation sites that, once again, required you to register and log in before you could take part. As we’ve said before, unless you’ve got a … Continue reading
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It’s official – the internet influences politics (in the US at least)
Some new data from the Pew Research Center puts some numbers around the growing influence of the Internet on political campaigns. None of this is too surprising, but it quantifies what we already know: that the Internet is becoming more … Continue reading
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‘Extra bank holiday’ campaign picked up as national ad
I was more than a little surprised when I saw this on one of the billboards opposite our Bristol office this morning: * ‘Extra bank holiday’? ‘Vote for a free day’? That’s our campaign! You may remember our whole ‘Bristol … Continue reading
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Seth Godin on charity support and online engagement
This post from Seth Godin about the opportunity and need for charities to engage people online is so spot on that all I can add to it is a word of recommendation… so: read it. It’s right. Go! Link: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/i-gave-at-the-o.html
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Wikipedia founder embarks on open-sourcing search
The BBC has an article on Jimmy Wales’s new open-source search venture, Wikia Search. It’s not really our place to comment on the likely success of this as a web initiative and it’s not the technology that particularly caught my … Continue reading
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China censors YouTube
We’ve always advocated YouTube as one of the most effective e-democracy tools around, and it seems that the Chinese government has been listening to us (that’s right!) as China has moved to censor and control online video websites under new … Continue reading
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