Technology

30.05.2007 Technology

Server works – complete for now

The work to change this blog and website has now been completed. The changes are as follows: The main address is now www.jonworth.eu and the homepage contains information rather than blog entries blog.jonworth.eu remains the domain name for the blog,

26.05.2007 Technology

Deputy Leader technology

The Labour Deputy Leadership race is all there really is in UK politics at the moment when it comes to using the internet for political campaigning. But there are a couple of developments that I really wonder about. Firstly is

23.05.2007 Technology

Navigating online communities

How do you navigate around the wide variety of online communities in existence? Well, you need a map. Click the image above to see the full size version. It’s an excellent graphical representation (initially from here) of how different online

14.05.2007 Technology

Fabian Society’s lousy website

I have a lot of respect for the work that the Fabian Society does, but they just do not seem to understand that the old channels of influence do not work in quite the same way as before. The new

25.04.2007 Technology

New Social Europe blog

First there was the Social Europe journal, and now there’s the Social Europe blog to go with it. The idea is to be able to publish articles about centre left EU politics that are intellectual but not as long or

16.04.2007 Technology

New website launched – tmponline.org

I’m back in London and just want to make a quick plug for a new website I’ve launched this weekend. It’s TMP Online, a multi-user blog system for those on the centre left from a diverse range of backgrounds to

10.04.2007 Technology

Bloggers’ code of conduct – fine in principle

Following hot on the heels of Oliver Kamm’s criticism of blogging and democracy (see this post), there’s a heated debate going on about Tim O’Reilly’s ideas for a broad code of conduct for bloggers – and it’s even considered important

05.04.2007 Technology / UK Politics

UK elected representatives – not leading the way online

The New Statesman is running its New Media Awards again this year, and I’ve just been casting my eye over the list of nominees in the Elected Representative category. What a terrible collection! There are some better efforts at interactivity

29.03.2007 Technology

I’m not Hain’s friend, and I don’t want Cruddas spam

I’ve been added as a ‘friend’ in Facebook by Peter Hain. But while Hain might be an interesting person to have as a real friend (you could ask him why he was a young liberal and ended up joining Labour…

29.03.2007 Technology

Pothole reporting

A colleague at work mentioned MySociety‘s new website to me – Neighbourhood Fix It. This is a site that allows you to report all kinds of minor problems in your area. I’ve just used it to report a major pothole

17.03.2007 Technology

Up and running

It’s taken longer than I would have thought, but I’m now online at the Congress. Seems the technology is far from perfect at the 1960s conference centre. The first few videos will be online very soon. My fellow bloggers here

Dead Linux Penguin - source http://www.timheuer.com/blog/archive/2006/09/30/13545.aspx

09.03.2007 Technology

Tories not practicing what they preach on Open Source

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