One of the best comments I’ve found under one of my blog posts a while ago (it was about whinging in comments boxes) said…
“Philosophers have sought to understand the world. The point is to complain about it.”
Here, Peter Levine has a nice post up about the ‘complaints choir‘ in Chicago.
Posts under ‘Seen elsewhere’
Valituskuoro – the ‘complaints choir’
Another perspective
There’s been quite enough sensible earnest commentary on how Data.gov.uk will transform policy and help us all join in describing problems.
Here’s the Daily Mash’s alternative take. (via @stevemoore4good)
A few words on governance
Local government governance guru Peter Keith-Lucas has
an article in this week’s Local Government Lawyer assessing the current state of governance in local councils.
It’s a good read – expert but not too technical. Keith-Lucas has plagues to put on the houses of both parties: the Labour party for watering down the proper role of scrutiny [...]
Glum councillors
As the silly season draws to a close (it is Friday as well), those nice people over at the internet have brought the ultimate in municipal-porn-meets-pavement-politics: the Glum Councillors.
For some time, I’ve thought that the LGA could prove it’s worth to the nation by doing a Calender Girls type fundraising exercise for charity featuring photos of [...]
Eric Blair on fanatics
One of the unexpected joys that the blogosphere has brought is is the revival of writings that were originally presented on a serialised basis.
Samuel Pepys diary, for example. ‘Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog’ is a nice variation – a contemporary set of sentiments put to the vulgar rhythms of late-middle English.
Flann O’Brien would be a [...]
Bloggers Circle
Apologies for the very light posting this week. Hopefully something approaching normal service will be resumed next week.
In the meantime, check out Matthew Taylor’s ‘Bloggers Circle‘ – if you have a site of your own, it’s well worth visiting it and joining. Here’s the drill:
Receive an email at about lunchtime when blogposts have been submitted [...]
Seen elsewhere lately
I’ve already referred to a few of these in recent posts, but here are my ten most recently ’shared’ Google Reader items.
I’m always up for sharing Google Reader feeds with others.
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
