e-Innovations goes Wiki

Always strange to see a thing that I’m responsible for pop up in the news: e-Innovations goes Wiki says we’re first, so that must be innovative? Sorry to anyone else who has done this before (and there must be many examples).

More thoughts on the IT strategy

Forward-thinking in all but title sees some comments in the Guardian about the IT Strategy for government. Somewhat predictably, each commentator cleaves to their own background, rather than looking at it as a whole.

Challenging

E-government awards off target sees a journalist sniffing around the Digital Challenge. Let’s hope it gets launched soon!

How to Write a Resume

How to Write a Resume has what it suggests, but with a twist. I like their seventh tip: “fake an internal post-it note”. I can just see the flood of post-it note covered resumes flooding through companies’ doors. Small problem: surely the first...

1000 Bars

1000 Bars in one year? Quite an undertaking, and now being blogged about too. Classic.

Hanging by a wire in Iraq

The scale and “smarts” behind serious, coordinated attacks on key targets are likely to get us out of Iraq faster than we thought.The third vehicle, a cement mixer, didn’t reach its goal. Fortuitously, the axle of the truck became entangled in...

Less e than the Pope?

We’re less e-enabled than the Pope, according to a Brown University study. [PDF links, by the way]We’re also weren’t doing so well in terms of business use of e-Government services back in 2004.[Update: apparently our paper systems are very mature;...

TV ad revenues

It costs $0.64 per viewer to advertise in Desparate Housewives. That’s a lot of money. Some interesting stats on how you set the price point for downloadable TV.