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Puffbox is a UK website consultancy with a particular fondness for news and government work, although we make occasional forays into the private sector. We’re different because we know where you’re coming from. We’ve been there too. And having been in the business since it became a business, we’re convinced that small and rapid delivery is the only way to get things done. We’re big fans of open source, especially WordPress. And we’re having more fun now than we have in ages. Let’s make some good things happen. meet SimonSimon Dickson has won national and international awards for his work in the fields of news and e-government. what we doWe help ministries, newsrooms and large organisations decide what to do online. And sometimes we even do it for them. instant portfolio |
DWP’s ‘what’s new’ policyIt’s coming to something when the editorial policy of a single page on a government department’s website is the subject of a parliamentary question.
Naturally, the Tories’ shadow secretary of state for Work & Pensions has a particularly keen interest in new additions to the DWP site’s What’s New page. The top of said page says [...] Mash! Mash! Mash!The latest move from Tom Watson’s Power Of Information Taskforce, effectively a big BBC Backstage-style government mashup competition, is a master stroke.
The Power of Information Taskforce want to hear your ideas on how to reuse, represent, mashup or combine the information the government holds to make it useful. … We will take the best ideas [...] Lammy’s lessons from ObamaLabour MP David Lammy’s speech to the Fabian Society on Monday wasn’t the first to say ‘we need to learn lessons from the Obama campaign’, and it won’t be the last. But it’s a well-constructued speech, and well worth a read.
He notes the eventual success of two ‘outsider’ candidates, prepared to take risks - on [...] Guido-Tom Watson consensus on gov jobs?One senses there’s not a lot of love between Guido Fawkes and Tom Watson. So it’s all the more remarkable that, within a few days, they’ve effectively reached an identical conclusion on the need for a better approach to public sector job advertising.
A week ago, Tom wrote a blog post noting the lack of a [...] Hansard back to 1880sOne of those ‘hidden gem’ websites: Hansard 1804-2004, which currently features the text of parliamentary business back to 1885. It’s not absolutely comprehensive, and the scanning isn’t error-free, but it’s amazing to have all this data at your fingertips. It’s very interesting to note how the site’s been set up:
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