So the Tories are in favour of Open Source software. Open Source Whitehall is the headline on BBC News, reporting a speech that Tory Treasury spokesman George Osborne made today at the Royal Society of Arts. Even Demos are trumpeting the speech, and Guido has a typically cynical take on […]
I’m happy to be able to announce the launch of the new site I’ve just completed for the child protection charity the Victoria Climbié Foundation UK. The site has been made in very quick time on a shoestring budget, using the Joomla CMS. Mor and Salimata in the VCF office […]
I launched a new website at the end of last week – for the Global Policy Institute of London Metropolitan University. The site is a little thin on content at the moment, but we have plenty more in the pipeline. I’ve been working on it with Henning Meyer at the […]
Andrew Marr’s Sunday AM programme on BBC1 this morning had a feature on political blogging, and the 20 seconds or so about a Labour blogger was none other than Harriet Harman. The header of her blog that I designed managed to get a quick view on national television. Quite cool! […]
Iain Dale has been complaining about how much government blogs cost to run – see his breakdown of the costs of David Miliband’s blog [link to the blog], and complaint about the DWP Welfare Reform and Child Poverty blog [link to the blog]. The costs of both blogs are in […]
I have been doing a lot of heavy programming work recently but stumbled across Agenturblog and suddenly started thinking a bit more creatively. My own blog is – after all – quite dour, and is far from being the most pleasant website I have ever created. I then let my […]
Harriet Harman’s blog and new website went live this morning. I’ve done the work to design and implement the site from scratch (all on a voluntary basis), with considerable help from Helena. The blog will hopefully generate plenty of discussion, while the website be constantly updated with the latest campaign […]
I’ve resisted a long time, but at Jeremy’s insistence I am now a member of Facebook, and what a strange kind of a system it is. I don’t think that even John Reid could have managed to muster up a better means of social surveillance than that system – quite […]
OK, so you have a computer (well, you would not be reading this if you didn’t), and you want an excellent and cheap hi-fi setup. How do you do it? My answer was to purchase some JBL Creature speakers in the January sales for £35 at Comet, and add a […]
Part of my task as a blogger at the PES Congress is to demystify what is going on there for those that are unable to be present on the spot. Yet it’s also worth spending a moment to demystify the very process of writing the blog and keeping it up […]
Hell, what a week. First of all, after the masses of work invested to get the Speak Up Europe website online by yesterday morning, the server it’s running on then was not accessible for the entire evening due to a technical fault / crash from the hosting firm – 1&1. […]
My sincere apologies for the long periods of silence on the blog. I have been working stupidly hard over the last couple of weeks, developing a number of different websites. The first of these – Speak Up Europe – is a Typo3 website on the EBD Euroserver for a Plan […]
