Comments on: STOP BLOCKING http://davepress.net/2009/01/29/stop-blocking/ Using the internet to make government more interesting Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:22:05 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Caspar Aremi http://davepress.net/2009/01/29/stop-blocking/comment-page-1/#comment-2682 Caspar Aremi Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:52:22 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=1290#comment-2682 At Dept of Health most sites are open, the only one which I've found to be blocked is spreadsheets.google.com - oddly, you can get onto Google Docs, and edit word documents, you just can't open spreadsheets on it! At Dept of Health most sites are open, the only one which I’ve found to be blocked is spreadsheets.google.com – oddly, you can get onto Google Docs, and edit word documents, you just can’t open spreadsheets on it!

]]> By: Andrew Beeken http://davepress.net/2009/01/29/stop-blocking/comment-page-1/#comment-2663 Andrew Beeken Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:19:42 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=1290#comment-2663 We also recently started blocking Google Docs here which hampered some stuff that I was doing; Zoho is open though, so I have migrated my work to there. Also, interestingly, while we don't block Flickr, Picasaweb is blocked. Even though the (global) reason is down to a lack of trust, however, I think that it also shows a lack of trust in management to be able to properly control their staff's use of the web. We also recently started blocking Google Docs here which hampered some stuff that I was doing; Zoho is open though, so I have migrated my work to there.

Also, interestingly, while we don’t block Flickr, Picasaweb is blocked.

Even though the (global) reason is down to a lack of trust, however, I think that it also shows a lack of trust in management to be able to properly control their staff’s use of the web.

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