Sunday, January 4, 2009

The DE Blog Ends (wih a whimper)

Well - the DBCDE blog ended just before Christmas. It was nice to receive acknowledgment on the last post for my efforts. Pity they didn't link to my blog rather than just one of the posts though.

Dave Bath and Sam D both were deserving of that recognition though. Dave gave a good summary of the failings of the blog in general though. I must check his references to the AGIMO work on blogs and consultation.

It is a pity though that most of the coverage of australia and the Digital Economy continues to be about filtering. HotSearch picked up that the blog was swamped with filtering stories. Meanwhile Arts Technica picked up on the leaked then released report on filtering that was the diversion at the end of the year, while UbNews picked up Conroy's comment that the Government would look at peer-to-peer filtering as well. Even the The Minneapolis Star Tribune got into the act.

It ultimately is a pity that the discussion paper released by the Department did show that the blog was just the discussion paper released in pieces (though a different order).

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the recognition of my analysis.

    As 'Someone who wants to know - "what is truth?"' and with an obvious interest in web activities of government, you'll probably be interested in the discussion of mismanagement of parliamentary systems here and here, and related posts, as well as a few posts in the planning stages

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