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Books,
budgets,
council,
decline,
government,
Libraries,
library,
local,
MLA,
public,
purchasing,
service,
spending,
UK
In fifty year’s time, people will look back and laugh at us for a lot of reasons. Apart from the fashions (“d00d, those jeans, like WTF!!!1!1″), what gets the biggest chuckles will surely be the hopelessly outdated concept of representative democracy.
Continue reading “The Demise of the Demagogue”
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ad-hoc,
communications,
community,
democracy,
flawed,
Futurism,
government,
implementation,
internet,
local,
politics,
representative
Ah, the web as a platform. I love it; so much good stuff to play with. Continue reading “Web 2.0 goodies”
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aggregator,
application,
blog,
Blogging,
computer,
del.icio.us,
earth,
google,
Librarything,
live,
local,
Newsgator,
office,
RSS,
Software,
suite,
Thinkfree,
web2.0,
Windows
Ah, good old Billy Gates and his merry band of code-monkeys. They said they’d trounce their competitors, and they sure are trying. Continue reading “Google Earth? Sooooo 2005, baby…”
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drivethrough,
earth,
Gadgets,
google,
live,
local,
microsoft,
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