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Over the last couple of months I've been working with Steph Gray and his BIS colleagues to build a modest little family of websites which could have far-reaching consequences. As Steph notes on his own blog, I've long been musing openly about seeing corporate websites as clusters of smaller websites: making a virtue of the silo [...] read on »

Steph Gray drew my attention to a piece highlighting the downside of microsites, and offered a nicely balanced view of the pros and cons. But whilst I admit to a commercial interest here, he missed one strong reason in favour of allowing at least the occasional microsite. I know it flies in the face of web [...] read on »

On reflection, if you're going to put two of the most forward-thinking people in e-government into the same department, great things are probably to be expected. BERR (as was)'s Neil and DIUS (as was)'s Steph put their heads together on Monday afternoon, and on Wednesday, they launched a new corporate website for the newly-created Department [...] 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 »

I'm genuinely delighted to see the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills allowing itself some room to innovate. As DIUS social media manager Steph Gray explains, they've just published an interactive version of their white paper on innovation (published a few months back), using - wahey! - WordPress. Or more specifically, CommentPress: the theme which [...] read on »