Tag Archives: rss

Open sourcing government

In April last year, I published a post on what I considered to be the 5 principles for Govt 2.0, one of which was open source government. This week, some academics form Princeton University have published a paper, still in draft, with the wonderful – if only slightly melodramatic – title, Government Data and the [...]

Rate your agency

As we approach the end of the financial year, public servants (with varying degrees of apprehension) start to turn their minds to their performance reviews. And while typically this is when you demonstrate your unswerving devotion to the cause and highlight the prodigious efforts you have been making throughout the year, it is also an [...]

Media monitoring and blogs

It was with some delight, tempered by wry amusement, that I opened the PDF forwarded on by a colleague this week that announced a new service launched by Chong Newztel, the media monitoring firm. From the end of this month they are going to be monitoring the blogosphere as well as traditional media.
Why delight? Announcements [...]

Dominion Post goes digital

The Dominion Post, the Wellington morning newspaper, has launched a digital edition, currently available to paper subscribers for a 3 month trial or to the merely curious for a 7 day preview. This offering comes less than a year after Fairfax (the parent company) redeveloped the Stuff website, a redevelopment I was less than enthused [...]

Public sector blogging toolbox

You have got the go-ahead to trial a blog within your organization after winning management over with your business case for a blog, and now you are down to the implementation. What are the sorts of tools (hardware and software) that you will need to make this thing work?
Before you begin downloading, installing and customising, [...]

RSS in the government namespace

Yesterdays post about social tools in newspapers got me thinking about the prevalence of RSS feeds in the government namespace. I was saying that RSS was now mainstream and that it was only a matter of time before all our feed stats were going through the roof. Mmm, not quite.
I did a quick whip around [...]

Social tools & NZ newspapers

I posted before Chrsitmas about the launch of the new websites for the Herald and the Dominion Post. At the time I focussed on the fact that Fairfax, in keeping with their strategy for their Australian papers, had not implemented RSS feeds on the site. I charitably described it this way:

Smart move. Why would you [...]

Scoop goes social

Russell Brown mentioned in his Listener column this week that Scoop have a social news site up. So I went in and snuck a peek. Bearing in mind that this is still in alpha, which means that there is still probably a good deal of work to be done to customize and refine the site, [...]

Microformats and the social media release

There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere about the social media release and its subsequent adoption by some of the big PR firms. And, as some agencies here are starting to use microformatted information in other applications, I thought it might be interesting to look at what these standards mean for [...]

Replacing email

If you accept the proposition that email is broken, (and if you don’t I would be interested to hear how it is working for you) then I thought that it might be worth exploring a few options for working around the problem.
The first thing to acknowledge is that, as much as we would like to [...]