Courgette Cake
This is a bit different from my usual posts, but if a blog is for anything, it is for passing on to others things that you find useful. So, at today’s Equality and Diversity Steering Group meeting at ONS I brought along a courgette cake which seemed to go down pretty well. This recipe has [...]
MacroWikinomics
Don Tapscott’s latest book, a macro view of mass collaboration to follow up his best-seller “Wikinomics” has just come out. I haven’t read it yet, but he was at his inspirational best when he spoke at the EA 2010 Conference in London earlier this year, and these short interviews with TechCrunch are full of interesting [...]
ONS Web Strategy
I was asked to present the ONS Web Strategy to a programme board last week, and also include some material on data mashups. I searched for good simple but visually stimulating demos, and was disappointed to find very little new material. I returned to the Yahoo Pipes demo I created two years ago, and found [...]
Us Now
I’m sorry I did not manage to get to the premiere of Us Now in London, but of course you can watch it online. It makes the case for Government 2.0 very well, with especially pointed comments from Don Tapscott and Clay Shirkey. I think everyone in public service should watch it. But, the more [...]