The UK government on Twitter

Dave Cole has done something that was crying out to be done. He has taken all of the (hard to find) RSS feeds for government press releases from COI’s News Distribution Service and piped them into Twitter accounts. Nice. To my mind though there’s no substitute for a proper, human-edited Twitter account and so I [...]


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Found/interesting: 22 March to 11 April

Look what I found interesting. Twitter-related: 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends – Twitter listening and trending tools c/o Mashable; Twattering – Banal and insipid tweets get the Speak Your Branes treatment. Hat tip Ross; Governments Experimenting With Twitter – Canadian government Twitter use on the increase – and some useful thoughts (some of [...]


Going Pro: what web applications have you paid for, and why?

With the endless speculation about Twitter‘s monetisation plans and ample indications that most Twitter users *would* be willing to pay some hard-earned cash for their continued use of the service, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at what web applications people currently pay for. For my part, it has to be [...]


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In The Loop: ever get the feeling you were being followed?

Armando Iannucci’s new film, In The Loop, is out on 17 April and promises, no doubt, to be a bitingly funny satire on British politics and communications. There. With that opening sentence and video I have done exactly what the PR company wants me and other bloggers to do as a result of their social [...]


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Found/interesting: 9-20 March

Look what I found interesting. Working Together – Crime maps, schools comparison engines – it’s all go in the world of digital government. Good to see RSA using Australia’s favourite OSS CMS as the online response channel for this consultation. Tweeting for twouble – 12 good men and true …oh and all those Twitter users [...]