Dave Briggs has done an excellent job of tracking the pending demise of the Lichfield based ICELE: the International Centre of Excellence for Local eDemocracy. A while ago I wrote about frustrations with organisations who wanted to get people blogging (great) yeh) but always on constrained platforms of their own making (which of course are …
Colalife – Simon Berry's campaign to use coke to save lives moves on again
Just read this: http://beamends.typepad.com/simons_blog/2008/06/notes-of-the-fi.html
Madeinbrum.com a project about Birmingham from Chicago
I love the ways bit of social web are now popping up all over the place. Paul Bradshaw alerted me to this Chicago site which also has this Birmingham site as an off shoot – as a means of describing sister cities. Included are some simple audio portraits of Brummies. Yes!
Journalism from the UK Parliament Twitter Stream
If you modestly define journalism as telling people what they need to know when they need to know it I think the various British Government twitter streams are getting into the swing of that. This on David Davis and his resignation as an MP from UKParliament (which uses its biog to describes itself as “Keeping …