Month: September 2006

Four new Lib Dem policy consultation websites

Another shiny new Lib Dem site goes up.

We’ve just released the new policy consultation website – consult.libdems.org.uk.

It’s built on the previous experience of Rob Fenwick’s Meeting the Challenge website and the Make IT Policy consultation site that Richard Allan and I worked on back in 2002 and has the consultations for:

The Taking Power consultation (another Allan/Tod production together with Alex Davies and Paul Tyler) has generated more response than I expected – so it will be interesting to see how much response these generate.

All systems go for first ever UK political Skypecast…

It’s now all systems go for tomorrow.

We’ve had a few calls in with questions on 07747 867259.

Ming’s Skypecast has been made the lead feature (apparently globally!) on the Skype website.

You can download Skype from http://www.skype.com/download/ – and if all you want to do is listen to the call, you don’t even need a microphone.

To log-in and listen to the call, just go to the page for Ming’s Skypecast tomorrow morning at 10.15 a.m. BST, and hit the ‘sign in to join’ link.

More details on the Taking Power website.

Ming Skypecast on Taking Power

After a relatively successful trial of Skypecasting this evening, we’ll be going for it this coming Wednesday at 10.30 a.m. Hopefully a few people will be able to join.

Skypecasting means people can listen live and ask questions at the end.

You might still be able to spot details of the event on the Skypecasting home page! In case it’s not longer the lead story, check out the specific page for the Taking Power skypecast.

More about Taking Power, on the Taking Power website.

To join in, you will need to download and install a copy of Skype. To ask a question, you will need a microphone.

First WordPress Plug-In

My first WordPress plug-in: Decurlify RSS.

This deals with the hugely irritating feature that WordPress has of putting curly quotes into titles of RSS feeds. These then can appear as question marks when aggregated elsewhere (for example using the Magpie RSS feed reader).

Just install this plug-in and all these annoying curly quotes should be removed from the titles of your feed entries!

You can find the plug-in here.