Archive for March, 2009
When Twitter Gets Weird…
Dave Gorman on a spat with people on Twitter who insisted that he should follow THEN since they were following HIM. Great piece as you'd expect from Gorman, making some excellent points.
(tags: twitter)
A list of things that will get you removed from my Twitter list
And producing an intolerant list like this is a way of getting off MY Twitter list! Seriously, if you’re going to suck the life out of something to this extent and leave precious little you allow others to do, then maybe social media’s [...]
So starting yesterday, Twitter is back in the SMS game in the UK after an eight-month lay-off. Will it make any difference – or has Twitter already moved on from its text messaging roots?
Twitter’s original model was based around allowing people to send and receive updates to and from all their friends from their mobile [...]
links for 2009-03-26
GSA signs deals for agencies to use social networking sites
The US General Services Administration signs agreements with Flickr, Vimeo, blip.tv and YouTube, negotiating with Facebook and MySpace: “We found when we reviewed standard service agreements that they were not a good enough fit for the [requirements] of the federal government.”
(tags: uspolitics facebook socialmedia [...]
The big digital launch in the UK this week has to be the arrival (at last!) of Google’s Street View service for UK towns. This has resulted in many lost hours of business productivity as people check out where they live in the new service; and a good deal of media activity fretting about the [...]
links for 2009-03-19
BBC | Whitehall defends ‘fantasy world’
A Second Life virtual meeting space run the Department of Work and Pensions (costing £20k to set up and £12k/a to maintain) attacked as “extravagant indulgence” by the Opposition.
(tags: secondlife ukgovernment)
links for 2009-03-18
Final, cumulative Digital Britain web analytics
Interesting look at some fairly detailed analytics for the Digital britain [...]
COI: Improving government online
The COi Digital Policy and Guidance team go 2.0 with WordPress and the Commentariat theme – and very nice it is too.
(tags: standards consultation coi wordpress guidance commentariat)
Accessible Twitter
And they say you can't make something accessible that also looks good? This is a very nice interface for the Twitter API that anyone [...]
Have you been out and about this morning? If not, you missed a treat, because it was sunny and warm and all-round spring like.
I’ve been finding it hard to get motivated to take pictures recently – at least, since the drama of UK Snow Day on February 2 – but it was a delight to [...]
It’s very strange for me, to come to something that’s a cult phenomenon for over two decades – and which has nonetheless completely passed me by. But finally, with the “unfilmable” graphic novel finally in cinemas, it seemed time that I caught up with the legendary comic book.
Despite usually getting tagged as a geek by [...]
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A-consulting we will go
March 18, 2009 in Government
Tags: coi, commentariat, consultation, engagement, wordpress
Way back in September, I blogged about a consultation that some of my colleagues in the Digital Policy team were running on which browsers government clients should test their shiny new websites against. That process proved controversial at the time but had a very happy ending with most everyone reassured that the team had taken [...]