Archive for RSS

Yes, council websites can

2 October 2009 , , , , , , ,
The October edition of Total Politics has a piece from me on how local authorities can learn from the Obama campaign’s mastery of the internet to build communities of active and engaged residents: Why does your local council exist? There are many answers to that question, especially from different points on the political spectrum, but [...]

Why councils should provide RSS feeds

1 October 2009 , ,
I’ve blogged before about how few local councils in Britain provide RSS feeds from their main website. Adrian Short has got a good recent post listing some of the ways that such RSS feeds could be used – and so what those councils are missing out on. Do go and take a read.

Cunning RSS expertise needed…

16 September 2009
I’ve got a few blogs on my “would like to follow in my feed reader, but there are just too many posts” list. The blogs are mostly full of fun or interesting posts; reading them all is too much, never reading them is being a bit too puritanical with my time. What I’d really like [...]