pre-dating fixmystreet

via @derekeb

via Tony Bovard

Astonished they went ahead with it after all the negative media coverage around HMIC ripping off @MyPolice. Shocking.

Love

via @frabcus

"Why is a government body setting up a website that has almost the exact same name and function as a private sector one that's been around since last year?" Well social innovation anyway…

This report advocates a simple yet transformational approach to public services – self-directed services – which allocate people budgets so they can shape, with the advice of professionals and peers, the support they need. This participative approach delivers personalised, lasting solutions to people’s needs at lower cost than traditional, inflexible and top-down approaches, by mobilising the intelligence of thousands of service users to devise better solutions.

"use of IT to socialize and commoditize government processes, services and data" eek

via @jontyoc

"With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties."

"Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate."

via @citizensheep

h/t @carribish

assess the social responsibility of the companies with the most power to change the world - via @immunity

via @nicstreatfeild

via @georgejulian

via @rich_w

Great work @pezholio! (via @ingridk)

Great line up

Go DC!

Approaches to social media

Nice innovative stuff. Loving the outreach work.

"keep the web 2.0 freaks and consultants at bay"

h/t @carriebish

How good, bad or ugly are UK council websites

via @zachtumin

US comes to the UK. Again.

winners of the Helen Hamlyn DBA challenge

Interesting use of Google Moderator as well

via @netociety

Suggest a bike rack (via @netociety)

via @netociety

Love

Should be a goodun

via @richjm

via @felix_cohen

Worth a look

"Every user will have one. It will be a secure key to every user’s cloud data. And, with six degrees of freedom and with tactile feedback, the cloud mouse will enable users to orchestrate, interact with, and engage with their data as if they were inside the cloud."

via @sidekickstudios

via @artsmonkey

Sublime and ridiculous

via @noelito

A mixture of good, the treating politicians like they're idiots and the wrong