Neil Williams (blog, Twitter) has drafted a template strategy for Government departments wanting to use Twitter; find it on the Cabinet Office’s Digital Engagement Blog or on Neil’s website as a PDF. It’s a good document – you have to bear in mind that this is for civil servants – and could be a good [...]

Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission. Click on “Settings” up at the top where you see the “Logout” link. Select “Privacy”. Then select “News Feed and Wall”. Next, select the tab that reads “Facebook Ads”. In the drop down box, select “No One”. Then save your [...]

I'm guessing it's not this @tom_watson who's lost the golf… # Great piece from Christian Wolmar on Boris & transport http://bit.ly/IAT3t # Having a debate with a BNP member at my blog. All welcome to weigh in. http://davecole.org/blog/?p=1238 # The BNP have updated their 'language and concepts discipline manual': http://davecole.org/blog/?p=1535 # Hi @ditlev – any [...]

Over at the OpenLeft website, various worthies are asked the question “What is it about your political beliefs that put you on the Left rather than the Right?”. Various others have weighed in; I’d like to go through some of the comments people made and then have a go myself. Polly Toynbee Sunder Katwala Jon [...]

From the Man in a Shed, via James Higham: OK some sort of guidelines were asked for so here goes: For the whole of the week 27th July participants will mostly issue daft and silly posts. ( Moon made of cheese type stuff – or even some genuine left wing moonbattery that may be true [...]

TfL have released more information on the replacements to the 507. As of Saturday, 25th July (edited – had August originally!) 2009. The note, which is available here as a PDF, says: Brand new two door single deck buses will replace the current bendy buses on route 507. Passengers will still need a valid ticket [...]

I’ve finally worked out how to make mod_rewrite work. URLs for this blog will now be something like davecole.org/blog//year/month/date/title rather than davecole.org/blog/?p=1234. Using the latter style will still take you to the right post, though. I moved servers recently (VPS.net are rather good, IMHO) and it took me a while to work out how to [...]

I wrote here, in passing, about the BNP’s Language and Concepts Discipline Manual which included Rule #15. BNP activists and writers should never refer to ‘black Britons’ or ‘Asian Britons’ etc, for the simple reason that such persons do not exist. These people are ‘black residents’ of the UK etc, and are no more British [...]

Just doing some working out for a blog post and I thought this might be useful to record. I believe it’s all right. Country Governing Party Europarty Austria SDP PES Belgium CD&V EPP Bulgaria Socialist PES Cyprus Communist Nordic Green Left Czech Republic Civic Platform EC&R Denmark Venstre ALDE Estonia Reform ALDE Finland SDP PES [...]

Good morning, Twitterverse. I'm back from my honeymoon… what did I miss? # Anyone have experience of phone and broadband from the Post Office? # If cannabis is legalised, we could end up with supermarkets selling own brand versions. Finest, Basics & of course 'this is not just skunk' # RT @prashantrao @tracyalloway Unbelievable correction [...]