(photo from the flickrstream of Swamibu )
It is apparently Sunshine week in United States of America, so please excuse the metaphor collision.
Over in the UK it is goodness to see nine Lords experimenting with a blog. It is called Lords of the blog. I quote.
Apparently we are going live today. So far, our blog confessions have had a very limited audience, but now anyone may see what we have been doing.
Not that I have anything to hide. Indeed, I suspect that most members of the Lords would be only too happy if the public could and did take more notice of what we do on their behalf. Some of us spent a lengthy afternoon last Thursday debating the best way to get more people – and especially young people – interested in the way Parliament deals with their concerns, hopes and fears.
It is easy to think of the House of Lords as characters in a PG Wodehouse novel, greeting each other with what ho! chum, eating boarding school nosh, and wondering where the empire went. But that would be wrong. I’ve been lucky enough to meet a lord or two, and even though they expressed a fondness for Yorkshire Pudding, they were right on the money as far as software and technology were concerned. I blogged some time ago about the House of Lords and RFID and the science and technology select committee .
Though the link had come from the most reliable source on all matters UK law, Geeklawyer, I wondered for a moment if this was a put up job, but no, it seems to be the genuine article. The Hansard society is lending a hand.
It is also interesting to see rather than hosting it over on a server in under the woolsack, they are running it on wordpress.com. If it had been buried in the depths of a government website somewhere, who would read it? up on WordPress seems somehow less contrived, and less likely that a Sir Humphrey is moderating things in the background.
Having these Nine Lords blog is a fine thing. I look forward to them asking some probing questions about Phorm………
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