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Discourse Team Releases Guidelines for Civilized Discourse Online
The team over at Discourse, a software project aimed at re-inventing the online forum (see here), recently did an analysis of community guidelines for about 50 different online forums, bulletin board...

Intellitics Blog

Open or closed – does anything online ever last?
It’s only now, a couple of weeks after the announcement, that I feel I can talk about the demise of Google Reader. Up til now, the whole thing has just been too upsetting. Reader is the site I turn...

DavePress

Public service messages with a smile
I’ve been a bit serious lately on the blog. Sorry. Here’s a bit of whimsy to lighten the mood. Worcestershire County Council have produced this video to inform the public about what they...

DavePress

The dream is fading fast
John Naughton: Because we’ve all bought into the techno-utopianism of the early Internet, we tend to assume that it’s always going to be open to everyone. But as more and more of the world goes...

DavePress

Group Patterns: How Do They Apply to Virtual Environments?
I’ve mentioned the Group Works project before, a multi-year effort to explore and document the “deeper core of what brings a group conversation alive”. While I wasn’t able to attend the...

Intellitics Blog

Open government’s double standard
Despite open government calls for performance metrics and financial transparency in government, you’d be hard-pressed to find any of this for the movement behind it. Over the past four years I...

GovFresh

PdF 2010 – Clay Shirky: Rethinking Representation
via Jon Worth

DavePress

Let’s do the LocalGovCamp again
Photo by Mark Braggins. It’s probably about time we sorted LocalGovCamp out again! For various reasons it’s going to be running after the summer rather than before, as has previously been...

DavePress

Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Crime and Justice: an open data challenge Simple steps towards local prosperity Editorially is the collaborative writing tool we’ve been waiting...

DavePress

San Francisco makes open data city policy
SF Mayor Ed Lee introduced open data legislation on October 15 that would create a chief data officer and promote the use of open data in city government. (Photo: City of San Francisco) Today, open...

GovFresh