Socitm Insight, publishers of the annual Better connected reports on local authority websites, is to run a seminar on Web 2.0 as a curtain-raiser to publication of its forthcoming report Web 2.0: what it is and why it matters - briefing for public sector managers.

Socitm Insight has launched a microsite to support and supplement its report Web 2.0: what it is and why it matters – a briefing for public sector managers. The report describes a wide range of ‘Web 2.0’ developments - and discusses their significance for all public sector managers, not just web or ICT specialists.

Here’s my (brief) story. I’m a web developer, I dabble in new web technologies and find it all incredibly exciting. I started web development almost as soon as I first got an opportunity to go on to the internet, around 1998 and years later I took Computer Science at A-Level and university. Yet despite all

I just came across this graph that shows that web interest in the Green Party has now overtaken web interest in all other parties except ukip. Greens are apparently also the most twittered about on Sky - see here.It was also good to see The Guardian score the Green Party's political broadcast "Think Again, Vote Green" (and see below), as the best to grab attention of floating voters. They scored

Just had a "why didn't you reply" exchange with someone whom Guido really did not intentionally mean to ignore. This may seem very Web 1.0, but email really is best. Despite now getting some 800 emails a day this is still the best way of communicating with Guido. Text via SMS if you know the number is slightly higher priority (or call the voicemail number on the blog 0709 284 0531, this is texted ...

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Responding to a BusinessWeek report, which questioned whether the Web 2.0 industry will survive the credit crunch, enterprise specialist WorkLight predicts that Web 2.0 will actually prosper, despite many areas of modern IT struggling.

This is spreading like wildfire on twitter, facebook, THE WEB - its a daily updated web page with various skits on Palin in the office. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet. I was keen, though, to know who was behind it. Was it Obama's camp and did they have a grand plan to get it round the web? In true Sherlock Holmes fashion I tracked it down to the authorship of an ad creative call...

We've just uploaded Lloyd Evans's Web Exclusive report on the latest Spectator / Intelligence Squared event - Howard Jacobsen discussing his novel 'The Act of Love' with Peter Florence.  You can read it here.

Web firms will have to seek Internet users' explicit consent before downloading their personal data and allowing private information to disappear for good from the web, according to a European Commission strategy on data protection to be unveiled today (4 November).