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  Unless your site is entertainment or the wikipedia, your visitors are not dropping by to kill time. People visit websites to solve problems: they want to learn something new, check a fact, purchase a product, or accomplish some other goal. Visitors do not come to hear your point of view for its own sake (usually), enjoy the brilliance of your branding, or le […]
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  three suggestions that would improve the BBC experiment and increase the likelihood of coming up with something genuinely useful: 1. Share the wisdom. Don’t keep the ideas in-house, waiting for some designated day when you pick the best of the emails. Instead curate all the ideas and make them available online. Refining other people’s work - or tweaking […]
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• Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonymity - Times Online
  In a landmark decision, Mr Justice Eady refused to grant an order to protect the anonymity of a police officer who is the author of a blog called NightJack.
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• BrownhillsBob does the Express & Star’s homework – whilst they relocate Shire Oak to Brownhills Market… « BrownhillsBob’s Brownhills Blog
  Imagine my surprise this evening when I happened upon the local evening paper to find there was a whole feature about Shire Oak Reservoir, complete with lead-in on the front page. The article was clearly derived from my earlier blog post, but bore no kind of reference whatsoever to the Brownhills Blog.
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  With newspapers’ traditional business model in free fall, the top media minds at global design firm IDEO (designer of the Apple mouse, consultant to Fortune 500 companies) were asked to imagine: How will we get our news after the traditional model falls apart? Here's their answer.

Help Me Investigate Blog

• Another investigation roundup: What’s happening with Birmingham.gov?
• Dogma meets reality - 2 compromises
• One test investigation and the story so far
• A case for Help Me Investigate as ‘public commissioner’?
• Video: Nick Booth explains Help Me Investigate at #localgovcamp
• There will always be early adopters
• Is this where we want to be?
• A lengthy quote from Yochai Benkler
• Media reaction to Help Me Investigate
• Some typical questions?