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Over the last few months we've been doing a few little projects with Defra: first came the UK Location (micro)site, and I mentioned there was 'at least one more' in the pipeline. The second project emerged a few days back: a 'commentable page' platform, in the style (as Steph rightly observed) of the now-legendary Commentariat theme. [...] read on »

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; [...] read on »

Just to note that Defra is using WordPress to power its new consultation on Food 2030: a fairly straightforward use of Steph's Commentariat theme, with a bit of Defra branding added. So nothing too clever, but as I've said before, I think it's a very good thing if we're clearly seen to be reusing the [...] read on »

Over the last few weeks, I've been working with Ordnance Survey to produce a WordPress version of their new business strategy, published today. As you'll immediately spot, it's another piece of work based on Steph Gray's Commentariat theme, including some of the tweaks I did for BERR's Low Carbon Strategy. As I write this, I've literally [...] read on »

A key element of the (re)statement of UK government open source policy the other week was the need to 'embed an open source culture of sharing, re–use and collaborative development'. That may have seemed like a waste of ink/bandwidth to those outside government; but I can assure you, I've sat in too many wheel reinvention [...] read on »

Steph from the Department of Innovation is at it again. I'm really very impressed by his new WordPress theme, Commentariat, which effectively picks up where CommentPress left off. After an internal trial, he's used it publicly for the first time, allowing people to comment on the Power Of Information Taskforce's report. I think he's correctly identified [...] read on »