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DCSF’s new Drupal site

Hooray for another high-profile UK government website based on an open source content management system: the new National Strategies website from DCSF, built on Drupal. It's big, bright, bold, and once you've registered - a remarkably painless process for a government site, without any apparent checks on your membership of the target audience - it offers [...] read on »

ID card debate hijacked

I wonder if the Home Office is regretting its MyLifeMyID website yet? The Drupal-based website, aimed at 16-25 year olds (for some reason?), isn't having trouble attracting traffic... but unfortunately, a large chunk of its traffic is using the site to actually organise an anti-ID Card campaign. This topic was always going to attract 'undesirable' use; [...] read on »