Grumpy old media
She wasn’t the first, and she certainly won’t be the last, but Rachel Sylvester’s Twitter-bashing editorial in today’s Times is surely the absolute worst thus far of the recent old media knee-jerk reactions to the use of Twitter by government and politicians. Not only is her microblogophobia out of step with her own paper, which [...]
Geek is good!
My big sister didn’t know I had a blog. She does now: Swiftly followed by: And look, she’s using Tweetdeck! Go sis! (And hello, if you’re reading this).
Found/interesting: 1-8 March
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 [...]
Found/interesting: 31 Jan – 19 Feb
These are my links for 31 January through 19 February:
- uktrains / FrontPage –
- G2 meets Thomas Gensemer, the man who masterminded Obama’s online presidential campaign | Politics | The Guardian –
- Twitter for beginners (slideshow) | Online Journalism Blog –
- Cursebird: What the f#@! is everyone swearing about? –
- The Poultry Keeper – I#039;d never heard of this one but it#039;s just been name-checked in the Power of Information Taskforce report as an example of peer communities, in the same sentence as (you guessed it) Netmums. Oddly, my favourite blog topics meet again!
- Innovate Directgov, you know you want to « Emma Mulqueeny – Mulqueeny spills the beans, simultaneously with Paul Clarke at barcamp
- innovate.direct.gov.uk –
- The London Summit: The London Summit 2009 – Growth, jobs and stability –
- Yoosk London Summit –
- Ministers are pretty chatty on average – Ross has done the math.
Reflections on a barcamp: turning the conversation into action after ukgc09
Saturday’s second annual government web barcamp was an amazing day for networking, sharing war stories, launching initiatives and swapping notes – all crucial activities for the small (and increasingly close) family of digital innovators in the government web space, and something we must all do more of. But for all the impassioned talk of what [...]
Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
