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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 'typepad'

An MP's guide to blogs

Labour MP for Newport West, Paul Flynn has apparently 'been stripped of a Parliamentary allowance for making fun of other MPs on his blog', if you read today's BBC piece on the subject. Flynn himself tells the story slightly differently, on said blog. I've had a similar run-in with my own MP, Newbury's Richard Benyon [...] read on »

Ofcom's commentable documents

14 August 2008 3 , ,

Ofcom's Tom Loosemore shows there's still plenty that can be done with Typepad; an 'interactive' version of their Communications Market Review has just gone up on the same account used to host their Public Service Broadcasting review blog. It's actually the second time they've done this; there was a similar trial earlier this year, with [...] read on »

MOD's news blog duplication

16 July 2008 0 , , ,

It's just over a year since the MOD launched 'Defence News: official news blog', not to be confused with 'Defence News' on its main corporate site. The main 'Defence News' site is a full-on news service, publishing 3 or 4 substantial articles each day. There's a proper (editorially arranged) 'front page', with articles tagged by [...] read on »

Ofcom blogging at last

10 April 2008 6 , ,

The only surprise about Ofcom launching a new blog, in support of its review into Public Service Broadcasting, is that it's taken so long, with veteran blogger Tom Loosemore over there. (It does bear an uncanny resemblance to Tom's personal blog, actually.) With electronic communications being part of its remit, and its stated objective to [...] read on »

Health minister now blogging, courtesy of Puffbox

Today sees the launch of version 2 of the website I designed and built for Lord Darzi's national review of the NHS. V1 was built in double-quick time during the summer, and for reasons of cost and speed, used the Typepad blogging platform. Over the last month or so, Typepad's limitations have become more and [...] read on »

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