Lots of wiffle, waffle and bluster about the DE Bill. This is not wiffle nor waffle nor bluster.

This is the site which people can send leaked documents to without fear of lawyers serving them writs. They provide an invaluable service. Go throw them a fiver or something.

On Tuesday, the City Council voted to move to a new system of governance. You can be forgiven for not realising that there was a change in the offing, but the governing party wanted to do it quietly and I don't think that they've done it properly.

Interesting move from Google. There's a push for councils to use Google adverts to "connect with your citizens at the exact moment when they are searching for services" and I'm not sure AdSense is of a quality I'd like to see on a government website, but they also list Google's free web optimization tools in a clear and understandable way, which is dead handy.

Might be relevant to your organisation?

60 minute documentary about social media affecting society. Notable because it looks at British examples, albeit mainly from a politics / democracy POV. The stuff about the football club is interesting - moving fans from supporting a club to participating in running a club by turning it into a game of sorts.

A handy bit of clarity on things like "it's too hard", "If we let people say anything, then they’ll say the worst thing" and "It’s a replacement for traditional consultation and engagement" <i>via <a href="http://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/statuses/1238083511">Andy Mabbett</a></i>

Another formal and well thought out guide for members of a large organisation on how to deal with the social internet.

Culture, Media and Sport select committee display a shocking ignorance of how online social spaces operate. You wouldn't vet how someone uses a park - you deal with problems as they occur.

Another gem from Dave Harte. Contains such observations as "Kids are great and way more talented than grown-ups. But they don't get enough culture and are a bit fat."

Dave Harte makes another impenetrable report slightly more penetrable. "This is all about counting and about how for all these years we've been doing the counting the wrong way."