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Category Archives: Web design
Why councils shouldn’t run Google AdSense ads
Shortly after Nottingham City Council presented at the Google local government conference last year and announced their £15K windfall from AdSense, I took a close look at their site to see what kinds of ads were being served and how … Continue reading
Worst practice: 10 ways that Sutton Council’s website (still) drives me nuts
UPDATE 1 March 2010: Let’s see how the site’s doing seven months after I originally published this article. Someone famous once said that the true definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the results … 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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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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DDAM: Don’t discriminate against machines
I’d like to emphasise a point that Emma Mulqueeny has alluded to in her seven principles for digital engagement and which I also made in passing in my previous article on building local news mashups. The web is rife with … Continue reading
Adding Twitter autodiscovery to your website
There are various lists of UK councils which use Twitter floating around. I assume that some are compiled manually and others by screen scrapers. Given that the rel=”alternate” attribute of (X)HTML’s <link> element is already semantically broken by the widely-adopted … Continue reading
Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 3: Starting a chess club
Brian loves chess but finds it hard to get a decent match with an opponent at his level. He’d love to start a local chess club but doesn’t want to take the risk of setting something up and having too … Continue reading
Posted in Sutton, Web design
Tagged iCalendar, PledgeBank, rss, Sutton Guardian, Upcoming
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Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 2: Street faults
Early one Sunday morning, Mark walks to the newsagent for his paper. He almost literally trips over a metal street bollard that has been uprooted from somewhere and dumped a couple of doors down from his house. He scans the … Continue reading
bbPress forum software review
This modern and lightweight forum system from the makers of WordPress might be just enough for your needs. I explore its delights and shortcomings. Continue reading
Posted in Web design
Tagged bbPress, bulletin board software, bulletin boards, forum software, software, web software
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PHP forum bloatware comparison: bbPress, PunBB, SMF, phpBB
Four leading open source forum systems compared for bloat and joy. Continue reading
Posted in Web design
Tagged bbPress, forum software, php, phpBB, PunBB, reviews, Simple Machines Forum, SMF, software, software reviews, web software
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