I meant to post this ‘20 signs you don’t want a social media project’ post when it appeared before Christmas, but for some reason I didn’t. It’s a response to Jeffrey Zeldman’s ‘20 signs you don’t want that web design project‘ post – one that it a great deal more familliar. I can vouch for [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Challenges and strategies for collaboration and engagement
Here is the text from a speech I’m giving today at the opengov conference as part of a panel discussion. (Update – my co-panelist Steph Gray has posted his outline here). The text below includes links to articles elsewhere that flesh out the relevant points in more detail. Most political scientists are still agreed that highly [...]
Slugger O’Toole Awards 2009
The planning for the 2009 Slugger O’Toole Awards has begun in earnest. The 2008 awards were a terrific success, underlining Slugger‘s status as a blog that is positively engaged with the political process. Where recent press headlines have focussed upon the anti-political nature of some of the more nihilistic high-volume political blogs – and the [...]
Debategraph
The G20 Summit is providing an appropriate showcase for the excellent Debategraph application. I’ve written about it over here on the Local Democracy blog, but as a quick primer, Debategraph takes the idea of a ‘debate wiki’ one step further – providing a Graphical User Interface to arguments. I’d argue that this is the most [...]
