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I’m not sure how I missed this one, but the UK Government<\/a>‘s latest public relations stunt is the Prime Minister’s blog. Yes, that’s right – since Monday<\/a>, Gordon Brown has been blogging at Number10.gov.uk<\/a> (for those outside the UK, number 10 Downing Street is the traditional London home and office for the Prime Minister of the day – and in case you hadn’t noticed, Tony Blair got out while the going was reasonably good and left the former Chancellor as a caretaker PM until the next election… [sorry, nearly broke my own golden rule<\/a> for no politics on this blog there]).<\/p>\n

Given this administration’s record on matters of an IT nature<\/a>, I would hope they had better things to do (of course, the PM is not churning this stuff out himself). With Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube feeds (as well as the Brightcove-based Number 10 TV) he wouldn’t have much time left to run the country [on second thoughts, maybe that is what he is doing… it would explain a lot about the state of the nation…].<\/p>\n

Of course the site is, at worst, a thinly veiled PR exercise and, at best, an attempt to engage an increasingly disillusioned electorate in discussion with the Government of the day. After all, the standard response to most e-petitions seems to be a condescending e-mail from the appropriate department which can usually be paraphrased as “yeah, yeah, we heard you but we’re still going to carry on regardless”.<\/p>\n

Still, at least they’re using WordPress<\/a> as their CMS (albeit without any kind of acknowledgement)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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