Found/interesting: 1-8 March

Posted by Neil Williams

March 8, 2009

Update: Simon has written up his work on the BERR and DFID Commentariat sites here.

Look what I found interesting (including a little something I made earlier…)

Low Carbon Industrial Strategy: A Vision and Eliminating World Poverty – these two new Commentariat-powered interactive publications went live near-simultaneously, making three outings in total across Whitehall for Steph’s elegantly simple Wordpress-powered digital engagement tool. The BERR one features a slight modification, c/o Puffbox, to use pages rather than posts as the “commentable chunks” of the document – a very neat adaptation given how concise the content was for this one. BERR is also using Pageflakes dashboards to monitor and embrace the discussion of flagship policy areas wherever it takes place. Not bad for a couple of weeks in the job, eh?
Rewired State: Hack the government day – While not being quite enough of a data geek to want to attend instead of spending time with my son, I’m eagerly awaiting some write-ups from Rewired State, which happened this weekend. Make it so, Mulqueeny!
5 Top Twitter Presentations – Slide decks worth keeping in your back pocket.
WordPress Wiki Plugin – Via Dave Briggs, a nifty looking wiki plugin for wordpress. (So now we’re literally just waiting for that plugin that makes Wordpress do your ironing?)
White House ditches YouTube after privacy complaints – Very eeeenteresting. Also spurious.
Ryanair: “Lunatic bloggers can keep the blogosphere – Oh dear, oh dear. Ryanair chalks another one up on the ‘what not to do’ blackboard.

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