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Author Archives: Dave
Ideapad S205
For the last couple of months I’ve been playing around with a Lenovo Ideapad S205. It’s a slightly bigger than a netbook machine that runs Windows 7. I’ve been a pretty dedicated Mac user for the last five years or … Continue reading
Some recent dead tree reading
Now and again I find time to read books about work-related stuff. Here are three I have been tucking into recently. John Naughton is a hero of mine. His weekly column in The Observer is required reading, and A Brief History … Continue reading
An online conference for online stuff
Here’s my latest wheeze: an entirely online conference to discuss digital government stuff. It’ll be free too. Here’s how things will run. There will be two sessions per day, three days a week over 2 weeks – so 12 in … Continue reading
Covering events with Kind of Digital
One bit of work we’ve been doing a fair bit of at Kind of Digital is putting events on the web. One example is the seminar that took place in Leeds yesterday, run by Local Government Yorkshire and Humber. The … Continue reading
Lloyd on GovCamp
The group blog collecting people’s thoughts is really good reading. Lloyd hits the nail on the head here: We do it this way because it works and because we’ve seen the alternative really fail big time again and again. Because … Continue reading
