Ross Ferguson’s blog with it’s bold new eye-catching design has a post with the sort of data that I suspect will form the basis of a good many plagarists’ powerpoint presentations over the coming months.
Here’s my standout stat:
“38% of professionals believe the internet makes them more productive (OxIS 2009)”
I don’t know how the rest of [...]
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Against participatory democracy
Brian Barder’s excellent – and comprehensive – opposition to ‘participatory democracy’ has been up and commented-up for long enough to be worth a second visit if you’ve seen it already.
My only problem with it is that posts such as this probably have an obligation to advocate consultation – in it’s most creative and energetic form [...]
Trust
Further to this (very good) post by ‘Living with rats‘ (name explained here)
“Never trust public servants, the community leader said. ‘They always dump you. They never keep their promises. They’ll always let you down.”
…. here’s rent-a-rant Charlie Brooker on good form:
But if the media’s rotten and the government’s rotten and the police are rotten and [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
