Big Chill fame at last…

I see one of my tweets has, allegedly, made it into a review of 2009 festivals. I think this is highly amusing. Context was the Thursday before the Big Chill – most people had dressed up as zombies for the…

Stereotwypes

1343998 followers89 tweetsfollowing 2 people (including partner) Celebrity who’s not got it yet —————– 1043298 followers4309 tweetsfollowing 48993 people Celebrity who has, and whose Twitter persona is starting to take over —————– 50983 followers499 tweetsfollowing 69083 people I have absolutely…

Dead as #Adodo

This is the full, unedited, untweaked, unadjusted email I just received from Dell in what seems like the last act of the #Adamo saga. It’s so good I thought you’d enjoy it too. This is a blog, not a whinge…

An open letter to David Williams

David As Chief Executive of Portsmouth City Council you’ve been closely involved in the recent decision to ban Facebook. I won’t expound at length about the various pros and cons of social media in relation to legitimate local government activities:…

Driven to distraction

I’ve done a lot of work for the Directgov team. I love its core proposition: comprehensive, authoritative, readable information, all there in one place – without bouncing through portals and between different sites, and avoiding confusing journeys through lots of…

Twitter and usefulness

I have a bit of a thing about the usefulness of services. There’s all these great ideas, clever mash-ups, conceptual discussions…but how many of them are actually useful? I’m not going to waffle on here about different models of utility,…

Spoiling the party…

A great day at Reboot Britain today. For me, one of the highlights was FutureGov’s “Learning to Love Local Government”. I can confess to some previous form in this area – my first public sector job was as a local…

#tweetbike – the last word (for now)

or what this social experiment was actually about… What was #tweetbike? The scene-setting post is here – but briefly, it was a last-minute experiment in real-time, self-organising social travel during a time of disruption. I monitored, and updated, the #tweetbike…

Highlights from the #tweetbike

Still working on the ‘proper’ blog post about yesterday’s experiment, but in the meantime, a few of the pics and clips… From the top: @heathtully got to Tower Hill safely, despite horrendous Commercial Road traffic@katiemoffat straight after a demonstration of…