I was delighted to be present at the Nominet awards http://nia.nominet.org.uk/winners/2012 in the Saatchi Gallery last night with Beccy Allen and Michael Raftery from Hansard. Photograph here: http://nia.nominet.org.uk/galleries/2012?page=0%2C9 We were in the last group – Online Public Services and Information – the short listed organisations were read out and then the runner up announced. With…
This is scary! I just found the Hansard site giving all my Parliamentary contributions sine 1979. I am doomed! http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/people/mr-clive-soley
Lords of the Blog had a coming of age party on Thursday. A number of us celebrated with Hansard and House of Lords staff. The experimental stage has come to an end and we are now an established and ongoing operation. Our readers have helped make this a success – especially those who responded to…
Lords of the Blog is now one year old. Today marks the start of our second year. However, we are a mere stripling compared with the Official Report (Hansard). It is celebrating its 100th birthday as an official publication. Some form of report of parliamentary debates was published from 1803 onwards, but they were not…
With 30,568 visits in the first six weeks of this blog I hope to persuade a few more of my colleagues to participate. I have tabled a question for answer next Thursday asking how we can inform the public about the work of Parliament. This blog is part of the answer and it gives me and other blogging Lords…
