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New Wales Office websites by Puffbox

We're exceptionally proud to unveil the latest Puffbox site: a new corporate website - or indeed, two - for the Wales Office. And as you'd probably expect from us, it's not just another government website. In late 2007, I was invited over to the Wales Office's Whitehall HQ. I hope they don't mind me saying, their [...] read on »

Breaking news blogs (again)

Alfred Hermida, ex BBC, now Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia's school of journalism, makes an interesting suggestion: using the new WordPress Twitter-style 'Prologue' theme as a breaking news site, 'with reporters adding the latest details as they come in'. I actually suggested something identical to this, back in July: 'A ‘breaking news blog’, [...] read on »

Leading blogger is new e-gov Minister

I haven't yet seen official confirmation, but I'm reliably informed that Tom Watson is the new minister for e-government, post-reshuffle. The Cabinet Office website only says that: 'Following on from Gillian Merron's departure to the Department for International Development, Tom Watson MP has been appointed as new [...] read on »

WordPress meets Twitter

As if I needed another reason to love WordPress, along comes their new Prologue theme which effectively gives you your own local version of Twitter. That's not to say it's a competitor to Twitter: the whole beauty of Twitter is that everyone is using the same platform (with occasionally unfortunate consequences). But as a team [...] read on »

Thoughts from Barcamp: just do it

The mere fact that Saturday's BarcampUKGovWeb happened at all would have been enough in itself; but the assembled group of influential, inspirational and interesting people made for a fantastic day. At one point in the afternoon, I remember looking at the schedule and getting depressed at the countless interesting sessions I'd missed. It's been a [...] read on »

Meet the new Puffbox site

Everything seems to have rolled over successfully, so I think I'm now safe to talk about the new Puffbox.com site. The majority of Puffbox's work since launching in April 2007 has been based around WordPress. I make no secret of my feelings for the product; so it was only natural that, at some point, I'd want [...] read on »

‘Governance of Britain’: Puffbox helps rewrite the UK’s constitution

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 »

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 »