13 January 2010 – 9:00 PM
Sometimes I feel as if I’m always playing catch-up.
This book “A Useful Fiction“, which came out last year, has just brought me reasonably up-to-date with devolution of the United Kingdom, particularly some of the finer details which I’d missed.
It has many good insights into the idea of Britain and its democracy, or rather democracies. The [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in books, britain, england, politics, uk, wales
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Also tagged A Useful Fiction, britain, democracy, devolution, Gordon Brown, Northern Ireland, Patrick Hannan, Scotland, Tony Blair
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24 November 2009 – 3:26 PM
Here’s a fun conversation starter about Wales and attempts to give it a “global brand”.
I have a mixed attitude to marketing people. The ones I agree with are good. The rest are weasels.
11 November 2009 – 12:14 PM
I went to a public meeting at the Assembly buildings in Cardiff last night, which was a chance to meet Wales’ new Cross-Party Digital Group and have a discussion to answer the question:
“How can we make better use of new media and digital technology to engage with the people of Wales?”.
The members of the group [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in politics, wales
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Also tagged blog, broadband, data, digitalwales, engagement, facebook, open, openness, politics, posterous, wiki
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11 November 2009 – 10:45 AM
I’m going to be writing more about politics on this blog.
My interest is how politics might relate to technology, business and “ordinary” people in the UK – with a particular emphasis on Wales.
As a personal rule I try and stay away from the various personalities and day-to-day machinations, allegiances, squabblings, who wore what clothes and [...]
Below is some full background to this, but in summary TheyWorkForYou are looking for volunteer coders interested in working on Welsh Assembly data. If that’s you, please join the new discussion list and let’s figure out how to do it.
If you don’t know TheyWorkForYou then take some time to familiarise yourself. It’s a well established [...]
Just a couple of days ago, I mentioned some really odd police posters I’d seen in Cardiff. This isn’t about those posters. (At least those police ones were trying to make some kind of valid point, but failed.)
It’s about the ones that say “These chemicals won’t be used in a bomb because a neighbour reported [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in britain, england, places, politics, uk, wales
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Also tagged anti-terrorist hotline, caerdydd, cardiff, cory doctorow, cymru, fear, grangetown, liberty, posters, terror
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The police have some new posters on display around the UK. I don’t like the posters. It was a definite case of dislike at first sight.
It turns out the posters are there to advertise the new Policing Pledge:
The Policing Pledge is a set of promises to local residents that not only gives more information about [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in britain, england, politics, technology, uk, wales, web
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Also tagged advertising, big brother, communication, orwell, orwellian, police, policing pledge, propaganda, uk
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27 February 2009 – 4:12 PM
WordPress has become the platform of choice for many people, for conventional blogs and also as a fully-fledged, customisable CMS.
It’s a seriously good piece of software. If you don’t care about the technical reasons, it’s very easy to use. In my opinion, that’s what a blog should be – as simple as possible so you [...]
