Monthly Archives: October 2010

What if Leeds…

Nice, informal, consultation site for what Leeds residents would like to see in their city:

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The pipe problem

At Public Sector Online (which Elaine did a marvellous job of writing up on the LP blog) last Monday, the question was asked – as it often is at these events – what could be done about the fact that … Continue reading

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CityCamp London

Dominic and his team at FutureGov did a fabulous job of running CityCamp London this weekend. Sadly I could only make Friday afternoon’s ‘stimulate’ session, which saw a roomful of people at the RSA get together to listen to some … Continue reading

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Oh dear, Andrew Marr…

I don’t tend to respond to this sort of thing, but this one pressed several of my buttons. The so-called “citizen journalists” will never offer a real replacement to newspapers and television news, he told Cheltenham Literature Festival. He said: … Continue reading

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Products vs. Communities

Jonathan Schwarz, then CEO of Sun Microsystems: As will become more obvious by the day, you can compete against a product, but it’s close to impossible to compete against a community.

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