Two Scottish councils are planning to share front-line service management, as far as I can tell.
Nice fake-3D presentation of spherical things (like the earth).
I want!
Some e-gov related things:
- Social exclusion is clearly in Cabinet Office.
- Council FDs should be responsible for the council and community. A tricky ask, you’d have thought they have enough to do sorting the council out.
- Good financial management is the only option for successful public sector reform. But she would say that, wouldn’t she?
- LAs are to deliver £1.3bn in efficiencies in 2006/07 (as their forward look says) which is ahead of target. I haven’t done the comparison of forward and backward looks, now they are available.
- Whitehall could save £500m a year doing HR and Finance properly. In the launch event, the Scottish Executive suggested that their shared services strategy was looking for £750m savings on £26bn total spend. Pro-rataed, this gives on £14bn saving on £500bn spend for England. We thought £40bn. Who can say?
Summary Computer Weekly article on shared services across the public sector.
Not good to be selling your tunes on iTunes, apparently. It could be as high as an 85% difference, sometimes.
One to remember: observe, orient, decide, act. Neat. And explains JRobb’s “skating to where the puck is going to be”.
Nice display of who’s reading what on the BBC News site. I guess this is potentially hoist by the idea that the top 10 become even more the top 10 through being listed as such.
Not unusual, but there’s a very good video showing quite how rapid the hits are.
Quite why it took me so long to get to use VLC is a valid question. However, Anto tells me it does streaming, too. Schplendid.
Six lovely factoids from Charles Arthur – here is a cut-down summary of the ones I liked. Why not read them all:
- Knife deaths are falling; surgeons treat attacks more effectively
- Motorola got its country name field length wrong and ended up publicising Palestine and not Israel. Death threats ensued.
- “News is stuff that I care about, and stuff that I want to pass on.” Thought provoking. Does that include objects as well as information?