Found/interesting: 9 Nov to 24 Dec

I haven’t done one of these bookmark posts in a while, and I’m some way off posting anything new here. So here’s a look at what I found interesting enough to bookmark recently.

The state of the UK gov blogosphere – Great post by Dave Briggs.
Why websites matter less and less – “Summary: Our audiences will [...]


Found/interesting: 17 May to 2 June

Look what I found interesting.

Crisis Communications for the Social Media Age – Also works as a guide to rebuttal 2.0
Swine Flu 2.0 : A Case For How Managing Social Media is a Matter of National Security – …and here’s a real-life case study from Ross Ferguson et al’s trans-Atlantic cousins
Twitter’s hype is different than Second [...]


Found/interesting: 11 April to 16 May

A near-random selection of stuff I’ve found interesting lately.

Us Now : watch the film -like it says.
I Can Haz Writin Skillz? – Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview. – HFACTDEWARIUCSMNUWKIASLAMB.
WordPress in UK government: an informal audit – and very soon, blogs on the BERR intranet too.
5 Very Weird URL Shorteners -variety is the spi.ce [...]


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 Steph’s elegantly [...]


New blog theme for Mission Creep

Unless you’re reading this in your RSS reader, you can’t fail to have noticed the change of design.
This is the excellent WP Premium, a confusingly named free theme from the designer of WP Remix.  It’s a bit less customised than my last one but a little more professional for that – the main reason for [...]


Look what I found: 2 December to 12 December

Look what I found interesting. Maybe you will too.

Rebranding Government 2.0 – Mashable seeks a better term, but for me this misses the point: which is that it’s about participation by whatever means, not just social technology
A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media – Because bad case studies are even more useful [...]


More deliciousness and a blog cliché apology

I promised myself never to allow two auto-generated Delicious link posts in a row.
But I am too busy with a thing (a thing I will reveal later, or never, depending on the outcome of the thing – hmm, I wonder what that thing could be?) to blog properly and therefore please accept this edited auto-Delicious [...]


What to bring to BarcampUKGovweb09

There’s never been a more exciting time to work in digital media in government. So I’m making damn sure I’m at the second UK gov web barcamp on 31 January 2009.
The first one was a big success by all accounts, and I am gutted I missed it. There’s lots of great coverage on the day’s [...]