Awesome visualisation map for tweets using the hashtag gov20

BLIMEY.

Missed it at the time, but Tim wrote a cracking article on the 50 hurdles to open government and prompted a very interesting discussion. That discussion is now taking place on a wiki, and is well worth checking out. Something Andrew Stott and team might want to take a look at?

Canadian government Twitter use on the increase - and some useful thoughts (some of which will be going straight into a document I'm drafting) about how gov can use Twitter

I've been re-reading this with new perspectives after a month of digital engagement envelope pushing in my new job, some of it guerrilla and some by committee.

I'm eagerly awaiting some write-ups from Rewired State, which happened this weekend. Make it so, Mulqueeny!

Very eeeenteresting.

"MuniGov 2.0 is a coalition of [American] local/municipal governments focused on exploring the use and principles of Web 2.0 in an effort to improve citizen services and communication via technology".

A summary of the Pew Internet report and spot-on commentary from Nick Booth: "It will only be fruitful if Obama’s team and the government they inherit find new ways to pass authority and permission down the food chain. This is not potential, as we have with UK government. This is a reality which will be tested from this month onwards."

Interesting discussion in the comments over on Dominic Campbell's blog between Us Now director Ivo Gormley and MP Tom Watson.

Mashable seeking better names for Gov2.0. I like participatory government, because technology is not the point.

"We're in the early days of fundamental change in the nature of democracy itself."

Dead handy roll call of UK government Twitter users.

Nifty set of slides on Government 2.0. By some hot babe.