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A top Whitehall civil servant has sensationally quit in protest at government's failure to take the web seriously. Well, I'm sure someone's going to write it up like that, so it might as well be me. It hasn't exactly been top secret, but 'Whitehall Webby' blogger Jeremy Gould has now formally announced his departure [...] read on »

Thanks to Jeremy for pointing out Harry Metcalfe's new 'Tell Them What You Think', the latest mass screen-scraping exercise from the MySociety stable: this time, it's government departments' consultation exercises. I actually met Harry last week, but didn't realise the project was actually 'out there'. It bears all the classic MySociety hallmarks - which Harry [...] read on »

Puffbox's latest project was unleashed today; working alongside Jeremy Gould at the Ministry of Justice, we've built a WordPress-based website in support of the Whitehall-wide programme of UK constitutional reform, going under the banner Governance of Britain. As regular readers will know, I've started specialising in blog-powered websites which aren't actually blogs. And this one is [...] read on »