Leader: Shout about e-government sees Silicon.com applaud e-Government progress, and ask for take-up.
Archive for August, 2005
Chris (my brother-in-law) got another Perrier nomination. I wonder how many people have been multiply nominated?
Take-Up Problems Mar eGov Progress. Not quite the substance of the report, but a fair comment, I guess. Funny, even after years of publishing content, serious and not-so-serious, there’s always a slight “wrench” when you see stuff you were involved in being let loose in a public environment like this.
Local gov romps toward online targets sees the first time one of our reports is mentioned in El Reg. Hurrah!
Lots of e-gov links today:
Local authorities on the home straight looks at IEG4.5 returns. As part of this, a report we had a hand in authoring is here.- Government Connect gets £7.5m. That’s less than I expected and 10 times too little for what it should really be doing.
- ODPM’s page on better public services
- Results of the e-Citizen research
Bar Tricks. They’re for barkeeps to look clever, but useful for thou and I too.
Billboards beam adverts to passing cellphones in a fairly intrusive form of advertising called bluecasting. Or is it intrusive? If you can choose not to get the ad, maybe it’s more like Sky+ and less like broadcasting?
Macworld has 50 Mac Gems for our delectation and delight.
Some nice visual things today:
- Online mazes
- Sorting algorithms - see how fast QSort is
- Dripping tap sculpture - just fantastic
My ODPM client can’t help being photographed in the pub.
//// COLOURlovers rate colours. It’s a bit stupid, really, but then I’m useless on colours, so useful for me.
Cracking Onion on Intelligent Falling.
Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, ‘God’ if you will, is pushing them down
Phew. We were wondering whether Metropolitan Councils should be Districts, Boroughs or something else entirely. Wikipedia came up trumps with what seems like the right answer.
Akamai news traffic shows an interesting view of the news they deliver. 2m visitors per minute at the peak when I looked.
3D alphabet. As it says on the tin. Kind of cute but useless?
Kafka is a genius Belgian government website with the aim of minimising bureaucracy. The humour underlying it is brilliant (Check the 12 tasks of Q, for example). There’s something wonderful about sly humour and the French language, as well.
thefoodloop
is yet more kitchen innovation. I have a silicone oven glove which is great. More uses for silicone, please (outside the body - filthy minds)!
Remote-Controlled Humans. Bizarre, but understandable concept. Make you feel that you’re falling over and you’ll naturally adjust. Do that remotely and you’ve got a form of remote control. Good for terrorists, maybe?
Damian’s got some great photos of his cycling trip in Bolivia. I’m glad to see that “the most dangerous road in the world” didn’t do for them all.
The Exciting Game of Career Girls isn’t that exciting, but it’s beautifully made.
It reminds me of my sister’s school experience with potential jobs. They kind of ran a forty answer questionnaire at you and then put it in an old-school computer to see what you’re most likely to be good at. Jo wanted to be a dentist (more specifically an orthodontist) at the time so answered strong yes to “like science”, “wants to work with people”, etc. Tap, tap, tap, bzzt, bzzt, bzzt, the printout is ready and says “Ideal job: beautician”. Not what she was wanting to hear…
