Bookmarks

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 8th:

• Socialreporter | Organise social reporters? Up to a point. - Great post and discussion on David Wilcox's blog

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 7th:

• Beckenham Residents - Local action in Beckenham via a Ning social network site. Hat tip @lesteph

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 4th:

• paulcanning: How not to do video about recycling - Great notes from Paul on how local gov can make their video go viral (ie get people to actually watch it)

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd through September 3rd:

• Mantis Bug Tracker - Bug tracker built in PHP
• Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face - Hosted subversion, via @lesteph
• Website Improvements and New Features - Your Archives - The national archives in the uk has put up a wiki. Please help suggest web projects they should undertake on this page… via @mysociety on twitter
• Consultation Institute on online only consultation | Delib Blog - "The time to see new technologies in consultation as a supplemental has long since passed."

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd:

• Obama’s Secret Weapon: Geeks. Lots of Them | Linux Journal - "The man has means for e-governance already in place. And geeks are the ones who put it there. And will continue to put it there, whether Obama wins or not in November."

Stuff I have bookmarked for August 29th:

• UK Central government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds - Er… just what it says. Useful list, hat tip to Tom Steinberg on the MySociety list
• Municipalist: Q & A: Jeremy Gould, U.K. Ministry of Justice - Everyone's favourite gov webby gets asked some questions and gives mostly coherent answers
• MySQL GUI Tools Downloads - Helpful MySQL management apps

Stuff I have bookmarked for August 27th:

• MJ Ray - slef on WsM Forum - Parish councillor's blog
• Supplying Decent Services - Hazel Blears announces a review of what happens when local gov doesn't deliver the goods, to be chaired by the Chief Exec of my local authority!
• Oosah - Homepage - 1 terabyte of online storage for free - and works nicely with the iPhone! Thanks to Bill T for the link.

Stuff I have bookmarked for August 26th:

• 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free Wordpress Themes - Another useful roundup of wordpress themes

Stuff I have bookmarked for August 21st:

• Screencasting: How To Start, Tools and Guidelines - Great guide on screencasting
• 10 Downing Street Website on More4 News - Spot from More4 News going through some of the criticisms of the Number 10 website.

Stuff I have bookmarked for August 20th:

• URL Rewriting for Beginners - Apache - Added Bytes - Useful guide. Thanks to Pete Ashton for the tip.
• Citizenscape - The CitizenScape eParticipation Programme Trial Project will integrate and test state-of-the-art Web 2.0 social networking ICT-based tools and solutions in a socially purposeful way in concrete legislative and decision-making processes - specifically looking at engaging Citizens to debate and engage with the implementation of EU environmental legislation at a local level.