Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Social Media and Young Adults | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. Even as blogging declines [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web A Free Internet, If We Can Keep It | Freedom to Tinker Given a difficult technology policy problem, lawyers will tend to seek technology solutions and technologists will tend to seek legal solutions. An open letter to the business – BankerVision The best thing to do [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Lost technologies « Janet’s Jottings We are a very careless species, losing skills and knowledge constantly. We forget our past, or it is obliterated through natural disaster or human conflict. We have no or little idea of the technology of a few thousand years ago, and [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web An Amazing Citizen Service Anecdote I am quite impressed. No email, no social software, no e-government here: A proof that service levels does not always relate to the use of technology. Intranets and urban sprawl: a postcard from down under « Sharon O’Dea Here’s are some [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Seven ways to protect public services – Charles Leadbeater – The Guardian In short, there are myriad ways for public services to help people more effectively, at lower cost. The alternative – a pared-back, rationed, often low-quality and low-cost version of an existing service – will [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Speech on Smarter Government | Number10.gov.uk The next stage of public service reform will be characterised by a radical shift of power to the users of public services, all users, not just those who are wealthy and powerful, not just those who have the resources to [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web The down side of social media (Or the web’s a tough old place) In the last few days three things have convinced us that we are right not to be seduced by the received social media wisdom and to stick to our current approach where single [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Twitter Literacy (I refuse to make up a Twittery name for it) To oversimplify, I think successful use of Twitter means knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of people who follow [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Will Politics 1.0 Swallow Government 2.0? a response. | internet.artizans I’d contend that the bolder win is for people to aggregate and socialize solutions i.e. actual functioning answers to social needs, whether stand-alone, grant funded or direct hacks of gov operations. That’s what Social Innovation Camp [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web ChangeThis :: Below C-Level Strategy Whereas C- level strategic planning is for people that ‘make’ budgets; below C-level strategic planning is for those of us that are given a budget. Folks at the C-level make broad reaching decisions that direct people and departments across the entire [...]