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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Example “House Rules” for community forums
These are the (slightly modified) house rules I developed for Sutton Chat. If you’re starting a new community forum or blog and would like to use them as the basis for your own rules, please take them and modify them … Continue reading
Why I’m throwing down the gauntlet to our councils over RSS feeds
You’re free to republish this article under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK licence with credit and a link to Adrian Short / Mash the State Today I connected 66 councils to their citizens by making it easy to subscribe … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Web design
Tagged campaigns, councils, e-government, government, Mash the State, rss, Sutton Council, Sutton Council website
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Did police kill G20 protester in London? (Updated: not looking good)
Article title preserved for posterity but it’s clear now that Ian Tomlinson was not a protester and was just walking home from work. Please see the updates in the comments at the bottom of this post. Unnamed: The protester who … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Politics
Tagged Bank of England, City of London, G20, G20 protests, london, police, policing, protesters
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MPs’ expenses: Forget fiddling the rules, give us live data and real transparency
What a squalid mess our system for reimbursing MPs’ expenses is. Whether it’s Mr Jacqui Smith’s much-publicised solo viewing habits, the inevitable confusion among highly-paid, highly-skilled representatives about first and second homes, or the shameless London MPs claiming for a … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Web design
Tagged accountability, data, free data, greed, Jacqui Smith, MPs, parliament, parliamentary expenses, Tony McNulty, transparency
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