Michael Wesch, who produced the Information R/evolution featured in the last post, first came to widespread fame (well, four million views on YouTube, which isn’t far short of the same thing) with The Machine is Us/ing Us. This one does Web 2.0 in under five minutes. Some of the examples assume a basic knowledge of [...]
Some of the smart people in the provisional wing of Cisco have been developing the idea of the "connected republic" for a couple of years – applying the power of networks not just to how public services get delivered, but also to how government works. Now they have launched the Connected Republic 2.0 – both [...]
In what was, for me, the early period of e-government, I remember sitting in an attic in Whitehall (quite literally), reading the Cluetrain Manifesto which had been published a few months before, in April 1999. It was an important book not because it marked the beginning of something – the internet and e-commerce were no [...]
Facebook had 26 million users in May this year, up from 14 million a year ago. On 20 June a discussion thread started in the UK Civil Service facebook group called "Wow,13,000 civil servants in one place! What do we do now ?". On 22 June, Jeremy Gould reported 13,365 in a post about social [...]