The following was article was picked up recently from Wikileaks. Possibly over-dramatic in a couple of places, but nevertheless indicative of a worrying trend. British courts continue to disgrace Enlightenment values. This month saw a secret UK court...
Topics: censorship, secrecy

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I picked this item up from The Times newspaper yesterday. Church leaders have drawn up a new set of Ten Commandments aimed at delivering “God bloggers” from the temptations of the blogosphere. You shall not put your blog before your...
Topics: blogging, Blogs, fun, ten commandments

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I was at a Policy and Performance event earlier this month, where one of the issues raised in my sub-group was the difficulty councils had in communicating with their citizens. This couldn't be better demonstrated by this snippet from a...
Topics: Plain English

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As a small business owner myself, struggling under the ever increasing burden of government regulations and stultifying tax, I had a vested interest in the eCademy networking event that took place on Tuesday 15th July, where Mark Prisk MP was...
Topics: Event, Mark Prisk, Politics, Presentations, SME

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According to analyst group Gartner, enterprises could make significant savings by paying staff to use their own laptops. The report suggested that a monthly payment of £47 per employee would be cost effective and attractive to staff. Gartner said that...
Topics: Gartner report, ICT, IT kit, Press

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