Yesterday, Richard Pope and I launched WhatTheyClaimed.com, a site aimed at digitising and collating all of the data from MPs expenses.
The website is based upon a system I built a few weeks ago to monitor our own expenses at Consumer Focus Labs . The site was designed to match the processes at Consumer Focus, [...]
In case you somehow missed the media frenzy, the final version of the Digital Britain report was published yesterday. After reading some of the media reports, I decided to read as much of the detail of the report as I could to see what was actually proposed.
Firstly I need to make a few disclaimers. [...]
I’m sorry to say that today I’m slightly embarrassed for the UK. Not only are we being badly affected by the recession, have a crumbling ruling party in Government and have a Parliament full of people milking the system for all its worth, but we’ve just sent two members of the racist British National [...]
Earlier today at the Future of Web Apps conference in Dublin, Robin Christopherson from UK charity AbilityNet gave a talk on website accessibility. I’ve seen quite a few different talks and sessions on website accessibility and understand how important this topic is. This talk however really hit home - Robin is blind and gave the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 a [...]
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 [...]
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 government, [...]
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, [...]