ScotWeb2 is a one-day event being held at Edinburgh University's Holyrood Campus, with backing from BT, on Friday 31 October - long weekend, anyone? It's already a cracking line-up, with Ross Ferguson (ex Hansard Society, now at Glasgow's Dog Digital); James Munro from Patient Opinion; Iain Henderson of the intriguing Mydex; and Stewart Kirkpatrick, ex editor of Scotsman.com, now running w00tonomy - 'Scotland's first, only and leading content marketing agency'. Oh yeah, and me. Gee, that's a lot to pack into a single day, never mind a Friday. (And more is promised.)

There's more information at Eventbrite, with the ability to claim your (free) ticket; there will be a website at scotweb2.com, but it's not really ready yet.

I've been doing a bit of work for the Wales Office over the last month or so, which I'll (hopefully?) be unveiling at Saturday's government BarCamp. I'm exceptionally proud of it, and I think it's a potentially groundbreaking piece of work for e-government. But if Downing Street had announced the end of the Wales Office as a department in its own right, the whole point of my project would have disappeared. And for a moment this afternoon, it looked like my masterpiece might never see the light of day.

Paul Murphy, I can't tell you how pleased I am to hear of your appointment. I note he'll also be chairing a 'new cross-departmental committee on IT and information security - although the grammar of the No10 announcement doesn't make clear if it means IT generally, or IT security specifically.