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Cookies climb down?
It seems that the ICO, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that the constant barrage of complaints from just about everyone involved in the web industry about the new Cookie law might well contain a kernel of truth. As such less than 48 hours before the law was/is due to be enforced they have made…
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The new social media guidance for civil servants
On Thursday, in a blaze of RTs on Twitter, the Cabinet Office launched their first comprehensive Social media guidance for civil servants [PDF]. This has the potential to be a hugely important document in the wider uptake of social media throughout the public sector – especially at a senior level where managers remain a little…
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Thinking about the Inside Government alpha feedback
There is alot to love in the latest bout of extreme transparency blogging from the GOVUK team. Sharing the results of the feedback and user testing for the Inside Government product gives a real insight into the challenges they are facing and how they intend to front up to them. It also lets those of…
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On being open..
So once again I am running a session at this years IWMW based on a half-formed idea and a hastily written direct message to Brian. What the abstract fails to actually get across though is..well everything. I’m not planning on talking about open source, content, data really. What I want to talk about is the…