February 3rd, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 3 Comments.
Unless you’ve been in a cave (or outside of the UK) for the last few days, you’ll know that we’ve been experiencing the fun of a ‘severe snow event’. The exact definition of a severe snow event remains unanswered, and I’ll leave the debate over whether what we’ve been experiencing is severe to another time. [...]
January 24th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This week it feels like a new phase in social media and the internet has begun. The beginning of the week saw America inaugurate a technology-savvy president, who, along with his team, appears to understand the importance of technology and the internet. Throughout last year, Barack Obama and his team made fantastic use of social [...]
December 29th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Recently, the UK Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Andy Burnham did an interview with The Telegraph. During the interview he confirmed that the government was looking into a cinema-style rating system for websites. As a web developer, hosting provider and internet user, I do not understand how such [...]
November 20th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
A few days ago I came across an article about the branding of the Dutch Government. It appears that they are fed up of having different brand for each of their 200(ish) departments and ministries. Instead, they are developing a single ‘Government’ brand that will be used for everything the government does, irrespective of the [...]
November 7th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
The chaos that is the US Mid-term elections have begun today with millions of voters going to the polls to decide whether the Republicans – lead by President George Bush – retain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the next two years. For those that don’t know much about the US [...]
April 18th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Following on from posts on Scary Biscuits and Oogily Boogily Woogily I felt the need to comment on the Labour Party’s local election advertising campaign “Dave the Chameleon” (details here). I would advise anyone who reads this to go and download the movie from the website and have a watch. For a party election broadcast, [...]