Posts tagged: councils
Why councils shouldn’t run Google AdSense ads
25 February 2010
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 they were presented. Variously, I found numerous ads that seemed to act against the direct [...]
Why I’m throwing down the gauntlet to our councils over RSS feeds
14 April 2009
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 to their news by email. It took me around ten minutes. I’d say this was [...]