Peter Orszag started blogging when he was the head of the Congressional Budget Office. Now working for the President, he has continued. You can see this on his latest blog about tax hikes, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/02/26/Clearingupamisconceptiontaxhikesduringarecession/. His general website, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ , provides great prominence to the blog as well. He has also provided an explanation of the value he sees in...
Steven Clift flagged up the Australian consultation on Future Directions for the digital economy which took the form of a blog. My initial reaction was that this was a great thing to do, but my second reaction was to worry about how they were going to handle the response - what do you do with hundreds of responses on broad strategic issues? how can you respond to them or take them on board? And of course the flip side of this is that it actually discourages responses - why should I as a citiz...
We Feel Fine uses large scale blog analysis to provide a glimpse inside the hearts and minds of people all around the world. Once a sentence containing ‘I feel’ or ‘I am feeling’ is found, the system looks backward to the beginning of the sentence, and forward to the end of the sentence, and then saves the full sentence in a database. Once saved, the sentence is scanned to see if it includes one of about 5,000 pre-identified ‘feelings’. We Feel Fine is divi...
I don't know what it all means, but these pictures of the blogosphere are beautiful - http://datamining.typepad.com/gallery/blog-map-gallery.html
Today I participated in e-Democracy 08, the annual e-democracy event in London. There was an interesting opening presentation by My Society’s Tom Steinberg who assessed progress over the last 12 months. Not surprisingly, his initial focus was the recent US elections and to my outsider’s eyes I thought his analysis got it just right. He highlighted President-elect Obama’s success in securing mass participation, but noted that much of his online campaign was about usin...
New Zealand's State Services often get asked how public bodies should blog - so they went ahead and created a blog both to show how it should be done and to get some real benefits for themselves. http://blog.e.govt.nz/. (And yes I did steal this find from feedback from Martin's recent Govt 2.0 event in Sydney!)
Again with thanks to Dave just come across a new UK public sector blog which shows how blogging is not just for ministers and leaders but can be used right across an organisations. Congratulations to the UK's Department for International Development for this new site - http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/