Huddle's survey of 202 local authority officials found a (very slim) majority to be 'disappointed with lack of innovation in IT services', and (just under) a third thinking 'Government’s IT problems could be solved by buying from local, UK-based companies rather than multi-national conglomerates'. If anything, I'm surprised those numbers - particularly the latter one - are so low.

But I'm interested to see 31% would like to set up a social network for their own organisation, whilst 38% would support a government-wide social network. Again, to be fair - they would say that, wouldn't they.

(And equally inevitably, I'm going to say 'WordPress': the planned BuddyPress theme/plugin collection looks fabulous, particularly these recent screenshots on the lead guy's blog. However, the consensus from WordCamp the other week seemed to be that BuddyPress isn't quite production-ready yet. See: I can be dispassionate about WordPress.)

I've got an account on Huddle, but I've never used it properly myself. It looks like a nice tool, not dissimilar to Basecamp but with a slightly more corporate, less startup kinda feel - and that's probably not a bad thing. Apparently it's been used by DCMS and John Lewis, but they aren't on their website's list of case studies, which remains a bit short on household names.