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Archive for November 2005

Off to the International Information Industry Awards

We’re off to the International Information Industry Awards tomorrow night, where the Knowledge Community we developed for our clients, the National Institute for Mental Health in England, is up for an award in the Innovation in Knowledge Management category.

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eGovernment Conference 2005: honourable mention

Many thanks to our new consulting team member, Stuart G Hall, for alerting us to the honourable mention of our clients, Patient Opinion, in the excellent speech by William Heath at the recent Ministerial eGovernment Conference 2005.

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Excellent intro to corporate blogging

Useful introductory presentation of corporate blogging

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Who best delivers politics? Broadcast, Broadsheet or Broadband?

Broadcast, broadsheet or broadband was the subject of last nights rather pedestrian Hansard Society annual debate and to cut straight to the chase everyone more or less agreed that “broadband” was the way forward. Though none of them presented a very sophisticated appreciation of the online world. I was also a little disappointed at the quality of the preparation, apart from Pete Picton (The Sun Online) no one seemed to have taken much time to put together a good argument, they just rocked up and complained randomly around the subject.

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Digital funds to bridge global technology divide

We’re in the middle of upgrading our network connectivity here at Headshift and very soon we’ll all enjoy a 24Mbps connection right to our desktop or wifi. This will help us do more stuff, faster and begin to sate our online multi-tasking fetish.
But among all the empty hardware packaging and frenzied installations comes this BBC news report on the Senegalese president’s call on the richer nations to do more to help developing countries buy technology hardware.

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Music CDs – now with added spyware

Sony rootkit code infects PCs that run their DRM-protected music CDs, thanks to a system supplied by a British company.

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e-Democracy ’05: The characteristics of e-Democracy

e-Democracy is an incomplete project based on two other incomplete historical projects, the Internet and Democracy.

Stephen Coleman’s words sum up the entire e-Democracy ’05 event. All the attendees and speakers were really enthusiastic about both the Internet and Democracy, no one there was quite sure how to glue them together, but everyone knew that it had to happen.
In his introductory speech Coleman introduced what he had identified as four key characteristics of top-down and bottom-up e-Democracy…

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Enhancing User Interfaces With Ajax

Last week I gave a talk at the UK ColdFusion User Group

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