Comments on: Help Me Investigate Birmingham.gov

By: Crowdsourcing platform Help Me Investigate is live - and generates its first story | Online Journalism Blog

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:08:53 +0000

[...] Particularly interesting was the fact that someone who had worked on the project set up another Twitter feed to give further information to the person who began it. You can read more about how the investigation developed on Josh Hart’s blog post (down at the time of writing). [...]

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:55:38 +0000

@Brenda: That’s a little unfair. Nick Booth is many things but he’s not a woman.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:52:58 +0000

The BCCWebTeam twitter account at http://twitter.com/BCCWebTeam links to a progress PDF at http://bit.ly/YY1u which goes into more detail about the current state than the press release.

By: Mike Cummins

Mike Cummins — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:54:32 +0000

Help Me Investigate is quite excellent! I look forward to it going live.

By: Brenda Burrell

Brenda Burrell — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:24:23 +0000

I don’t live in Birmingham anymore, so I can say this in safety and comfort 200 miles up the M1, but when I looked at the BCC website the other day to find something, it was actually quite a shock to see how bad it actually looks. Like something out of the wayback machine.

What is even more of a mystery to me is how its self styled Website Manager can give a presentation about the semantic web at Moseley Bar Camp on Saturday without mentioning this state of affairs to anyone. I wonder whether people might have been more interested in helping him solve his current difficulties than watching him bundle Moseley’s geek women into a row to represent his fantasy machine tags?

By: Matt Machell

Matt Machell — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:22:43 +0000

You might find Bruce’s DTI complaint files hauntingly familiar:

http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/category/accessibility-web-standards/dti-complaint/