Simon Dickson, principal consultant at Puffbox, writes stuff about e-government, online news and politics. Some important people read it.

Defence green paper on WordPress

4 February 2010 , ,

Delighted to note the Ministry of Defence's decision to publish its new green paper in commentable form, using a restyled version of Steph's Commentariat theme for WordPress.

The MoD have been doing some excellent, if a little underpublicised, work with blogging tools - Defence News and a blog from Afghanistan, both running on a Typepad account; and Blogger-based initiatives from Basra and Helmand; not to mention efforts around YouTube, Facebook and so on. But I think this is their first WordPress-based work.

Looks to be sitting in ultra-cheap hosting space provided by Hampshire-based Justhost.com - £2.95 a month for unlimited disk space and bandwidth; although I think the server itself is in California.

Depending on your definitions, I think that's now a majority of central government departments - or certainly very close to it, anyway - who have run public-facing WordPress-based websites.

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