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An MP's guide to blogs
Labour MP for Newport West, Paul Flynn has apparently 'been stripped of a Parliamentary allowance for making fun of other MPs on his blog', if you read today's BBC piece on the subject. Flynn himself...
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DFID redesigned
This week saw the next phase in the incremental redesign of the Department For International Development's website. It's a much airier, brighter look than before, and with a YouTube video front and...
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It's a sign of how far WordPress has come, that I find myself noting the Telegraph's transfer of its blogging platform to WordPress purely because I feel I should... and not because it's especially...
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New Cabinet’s online footprint
I make it seven members of the new Coalition cabinet with Twitter accounts: although of course, some have been more personal than others: Nick Clegg William Hague Vince Cable Chris Huhne Eric Pickles...
View ArticleMinister (not) warned for (not) tweeting at 1am
For the last week or two, I've been trying to draw together some thoughts on Ministers and blogging / tweeting, particularly as regards former Opposition figures now finding themselves in government,...
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Paul Waugh takes his audience with him to PoliticsHome
Evening Standard deputy political editor Paul Waugh starts his new job this morning, as editor of (increasingly paywalled) website PoliticsHome.com. Mildly interesting in itself, as evidence of the...
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BIS gets a blog
A fairly soft launch today for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills's new corporate blog: built by Steph Gray (obviously), using WordPress (naturally). Taking a quick whizz round the...
View ArticleNo10 proposal to replace press offices with a blog
The FT is getting all excited by apparent 'proposals' by Downing Street's shaven-headed, shoeless strategy director Steve Hilton to abolish maternity leave and suspend consumer protection laws, in the...
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The return of e-petitions; a new home for the Govt Digital Service; and an...
Two site launches today worth noting: the return of e-petitions, and the 'new' Government Digital Service blog. E-petitions used to belong to Downing Street; now it's moved over to Directgov, and...
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Foreign Office finally switches to WordPress
Earlier this week, the Foreign Office rebuilt its blogs.fco.gov.uk site. It doesn't look much different. But the screenshot above isn't the significant one. The one below is. Yes, after some gentle...
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