Che Tibby’s great post this week about how government can/should interact with people via the Internet, Free on the Range, throws up some very interesting issues and, for me, some questions about what it is we mean when we talk about Govt 2.0 (government in the Web 2.0 age).
Given that Web 2.0 is a term [...]
At the beginning of March Gartner published a brief paper, titled ‘What Does Web 2.0 Mean to Government (no link: subscription required), that included some significant observations about our future operating environment, and it set me thinking about what this will mean for the public sector in big-picture terms.
Before we get to the report itself, [...]
February 1, 2007 – 4:02 pm
I posted before Chrsitmas about the launch of the new websites for the Herald and the Dominion Post. At the time I focussed on the fact that Fairfax, in keeping with their strategy for their Australian papers, had not implemented RSS feeds on the site. I charitably described it this way:
Smart move. Why would you [...]
November 20, 2006 – 2:37 pm
Looking for a quote to spice up a presentation or speech? Not content to trawl through all those passé Web 1.0 quote sites? Then check out Quotiki.
As the name suggests, it is a wiki for quotes — well, sort of a wiki. That’s right, rather than pay someone to laboriously enter all those quotes into [...]
November 8, 2006 – 7:06 pm
Wired magazine has reported on a new startup, called ReputationDefender (note the lack of a space between the two words, a sure sign that this company is certified Web 2.0™), whose mission in life is to:
…act on your behalf by contacting data hosting services and requesting the removal of any materials that threaten your good [...]
September 29, 2006 – 3:05 pm
Russell Brown said, during his talk last Friday – and I am paraphrasing because, unlike the more diligent among you, I wasn’t taking notes (if you want to write in and correct the record, please do) – that he thought RSS was going to play a huge part of the future of the web. I [...]
