From here:
“The best thing about being a blogger is the people you get to meet.” I have found this to be true and self-evident. When I was younger, the people who inspired me the most professionally were famous, dead, or both. Since I become a blogger the people who inspired me the most became good [...]

If I spent an hour on a story I would end up with a ‘truth’ that represented 60 minutes of effort. A week of effort would yield a 7 days of ‘truth’. What the facts mean is always subjective, regardless of the solidity of those facts.

Good journalism chases honesty, not truth. Honesty is a [...]

I didn’t understand this until I checked here. Now I do and I like it a lot. Homo Ludens suceeds through play.

Hat tip Jon Bounds. Original source Emergent Game.

Simon has just started the first official live blog of a UK summit here. Now press accredit a bunch of other bloggers (if you haven’t already).

The West Midlands leads the digital way, well our politicians seem to be up for it. Comment at Tom Watson:
today I am announcing the establishment of the Power of Information Taskforce. I’m pleased to say that Richard Allan has agreed to Chair the Taskforce. Richard has a vast breadth of knowledge in this field. He’s [...]

There has been a lot of interest in Downing Street joining Twitter. But does it really mean much, or anything, that’s new?

At the moment number 10 is using it predominantly as a means to feed us links to press releases plus the odd Youtube film. Very good.

Within less than 24 hours 178 people [...]

It is becoming downright tricky for the government to get our attention. Not for the old reasons of being mostly boring. Rather because our attention is increasingly elsewhere – immersed more and more in networks and relationships.

What I pay heed to is much more self indulgent now than it was 15 years ago. [...]

I received an e-mail today from the office of George Osbourne the Shadow Chancellor. Thanks to Rohan Silva for getting in touch.

They wanted to point out similarities between the speech Tom Watson made yesterday on The Power of Information and previous speeches and announcements made by the Conservative Party. The body [...]