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Simon Dickson, principal consultant at Puffbox, has been blogging about e-government, online politics, and WordPress since 2005. Some important people read it.

Archive for 'onepolitics'

Onepolitics now Android and iPhone-optimised

5 November 2008 4 , , ,

I've just rebuilt my onepolitics website, which aims to bring together the latest from a personal selection of prominent political blogs into a single page. It's the third incarnation of the site in less than a year: initially it was built in WordPress, then rebuilt in June as a more straightforward PHP/RSS-powered website. It's had [...] read on »

Puffbox's onepolitics site relaunched

11 June 2008 1 , , , ,

A few months back, I built and launched onepolitics: an automated website which pulled together the latest blog postings from the 'proper' political commentators. It wasn't ever meant to be a mass-audience website: I built it for myself, but if anyone else wanted to use it, they were welcome. As I wrote at the time: [...] read on »

On the political parties' sites…

Looking at the political parties' websites, I've found a few surprising features - and not necessarily pleasant surprises. SNP and DUP people, I'm looking at you here. read on »

PoliticsHome: overwhelming and soulless

'Staying on top of modern politics has become a full time job,' declares the long-awaited PoliticsHome on its About page. 'Things move too fast: it is too much for any single person to track.' Unfortunately, the same can be said about the site itself: load up the homepage, and a torrent of headlines hits you [...] read on »

PoliticsHome: like onepolitics, but with cash

onepolitics has competition. The Dizzy Thinks blog revealed at the end of January that Stefan Shakespeare (who previously brought you 18 Doughty Street and YouGov) is set to launch PoliticsHome.com, promising to be the 'definitive portal to the ongoing political debate, edited by some of the UK's leading political journalists and pollsters'. Then Guido published [...] read on »

onepolitics, the new Puffbox site

22 February 2008 11 , , , ,

It wasn't originally intended for public consumption, but today I'm unveiling a new website produced by Puffbox. onepolitics is an at-a-glance view of the latest posts on the growing number of political blogs being written by 'proper' reporters. You can wait until tomorrow to see what they say in print, or in tonight's bulletin; or [...] read on »

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