Great project. Fingers crossed there are big plans in the pipeline to make this accessible and user generated.

"Current TV, the independent cable television network founded by vice president Al Gore and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, broke new ground Friday night when it melded a traditional televised presidential debate format with next-generation web technology that incorporated viewers' spontaneous reactions into the broadcast. Current incorporated audiences' 140-character commentaries from the microblogging service Twitter into their broadcasts." Oh yes, the future of interactive TV and democracy is here. Love it (via Derek Baird)

Top report back on the UK Youth Online event hosted by DIUS

"There are thousands of products for independent living, pieces of daily living equipment or mobility products on the market that might be able to help you or your familiy. If you are looking for impartial information on any type of equipment for older and disabled people, want to talk through your options or even try them out for yourself under the guidance of an occupational therapist, then the DLF can help you." (via Ivo Gormley)

Not a hell of a lot of room for people outside the US then (I count 2 I think). Interesting read mind, if you can get beyond the vomit inducing tales of heroic business leadership.

Irish Times review of Nudge with a nod to Barnet

"The Social Market Foundation is a leading UK think tank, developing innovative ideas across a broad range of economic and social policy. It champions policy ideas which marry markets with social justice and takes a pro-market rather than free-market approach. Our work is characterised by the belief that governments have an important role to play in correcting market failures and setting the framework within which markets can operate in a way that benefits individuals and society as a whole."

Event summary from Laura Whitehead

Seems pretty cool.

"The Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC) is a network of researchers and practitioners working together to strengthen the field of deliberative democracy. The Consortium seeks to support research activities and to advance practice at all levels of government, in North America and around the world."

More on Scripting Enabled.

Now that is what I call a political website! Wow. Mind what more would you expect from the guy who chairs the all party group for the internet and helped to found the Oxford Internet Institute…

Has the internet brought happiness?

"Grab a video. Add some stuff. Post it anywhere."

Greenies under surveillance (via Mark Charmer)

Insight into how the mythical Gen Y is said to be communicating (via Derek Baird)

Game playing is universal, diverse, often involves social interaction, and can cultivate teen civic engagement (via Derek Baird)

An attempt to expand my horizons…

Now if I was only able to teleport to the other side of the world… Top notch by the looks too.

Mike Butcher reports back on the inaugural Harvest Twestival. Congrats @benrmatthews, @amandita and all!

"I’m your online life, right inside your pocket. I integrate your social services and make sure you can share your online identities in real life. I am the physical link to social networking." (via Steve Bridger)

Fantastic write up of the Scripting Enabled event.

Denise tells all about our journey so far as Enabled by Design.

Social network for members of the Hub

This will be where you'll now find me when I'm not out and about. New top notch touch down space in Kings Cross with a more cross-sector feel than their Islington home (public, private and social sector people welcome).

Interesting to see policy rhetoric shifting from the language of 'choice' to 'randomness' - there's strategic policy making in action for you!

Useful stake in the ground in the development of youth work and social networking.

An interesting read on the future of social enterprise in the UK (via Justin Kerr-Stevens)

"This is a production blog from the Web Centre team in the Houses of Parliament. We will be using this blog to post information about the ongoing improvements we’re making to the UK Parliament website." Liking their style! (via Robert Brook)

"Curverider creates innovative, effective web applications, and offers services and training to help you get the most out of the social web." including Elgg

"Our challenge now is to make the engagement and empowerment of people and communities mainstream in the commissioning of services. To be world class commissioners we need to know the needs and preferences of our local communities, work with our partners on the health and well being agenda and work with local people to tackle health inequalities. The Department of Health’s Patient and Public Empowerment division provides NHS organisations with the knowledge and expertise to enable them to achieve this goal."

"The NHS Centre for Involvement (NCI) supports and encourages the NHS and other organisations to involve patients and the public in health and social care decision-making."

Report back and mention for Denise

A bunch of public sector bloggers covered by DAve Briggs

"Our mission is to obliterate litter" and use social media to do it!

Outcomes from the great Scripting Enabled web accessibility event, including a report on 'Enabled by Design meets Scripting Enabled'

"ReadSpeaker provide automatic speech enabling of web content. Make your website talk, to make the text more accessible." (via Laura Whitehead)

"Easy SlideShare is an alternative way of reading SlideShare presentations. We wanted to make sure that everybody who wants to read your presentations on-line can do so - regardless of age, ability and web proficiency." Just one of many great outcomes from the Scripting Enabled hack day in opening up the web to a wider audience.

A little bit of fun for you all (via Joshua March)

"The London mayor Boris Johnson is proposing to close down Heathrow and replace it with a 24-hour airport in the Thames estuary. The airport, most likely to be located on an artificial island off Sheppey in Kent, would have four runways, but capacity for two more if required. Passengers would be transported to and from central London on high-speed trains in about 35 minutes. Luggage could be checked in at the railway station." You've got to respect his ambitious thinking.

A vision for e-Democracy in 2020 - participation 1, politicians 0 (via Tiago Peixato)

One for all us democratic engagement geeks out there (via Tiago Peixato)

OK so that is interesting! (via Tiago Peixato)

"This paper concerns the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a strategy for reinforcing democratic processes - broadly defined as 'electronic democracy' practices - and focuses on the use of ICTs in participatory democracy initiatives." From Tiago Peixoto of the E-Democracy Centre, Universität Zürich, Switzerland.

"This paper concerns the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a strategy for reinforcing democratic processes - broadly defined as 'electronic democracy' practices - and focuses on the use of ICTs in participatory democracy initiatives." From Tiago Peixoto of the E-Democracy Centre, Universität Zürich, Switzerland.

Create fun site mock ups and make wireframing interesting (via Anne Petterøe)