Michigan.gov Named Best In Nation
On Tuesday the Center for Digital Government announced that Michigan.gov had won its annual “Best of the Web” award. You can see the state’s press release here. The site has introduced a number of...
View ArticleCivic Footprint
For some time now I’ve been interested in the possibility of bringing together political information from all different layers of government and finding ways of layering it. Too few of us understand...
View ArticleFilesharing legislation and why it’s unworkable
According to leaked documents obtained by The Times, the UK government is planning a green (discussion/consultation) paper proposing strong action against “illegal file-sharing.” According to the...
View ArticleAlpha.gov.uk is GO!
Late last night I commented out the HTTP authentication settings, and Alpha.gov.uk was live. I’ve not slept much since then, but so far everything seems to be running smoothly. Apart from my email and...
View ArticleInside Government
The second of the three GOV.UK beta releases was unveiled last week. “INSIDE GOVERNMENT” is the promised “corporate publishing platform” designed to bring together the core web publishing activity of...
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