what are we doing today, brain?

Forrester Profiling tool for online engagement by people in different countries. Check out the 18-24 year olds in Australia

This looks like a fascinating idea, can't wait to hear more. "All public services could be delivered online within four years under an ambitious pledge by Gordon Brown to create a paperless state and save billions of pounds, The Times has learnt."

An interesting look into the business benefits and value you can derive from social networking. Some interesting and unexpected use cases

A great article linking open government, FOSS and open data together. Also covers briefly the attitudes to open government in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Nice work!

Emergency 2.0 Australia, a project examining how Social Media can assist in Emergency Management.

A talk by Andrew Krzmarzick about what people look for in Gov 2.0 leadership. Interesting read. Reflects what you look for in any community leadership, so I'm not sure it is Gov 2.0 specific, but useful.

An interesting guide. "Procuring Web 2.0 Technology for the Federal Government"

A great blog post containing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham City Jail. An amazing read both to reflect his work and approach, and as a lesson in inspirational writing and change-making.

Amazing application for analysing data and in particular relationships and people. This is a short video demo of the data resulting from Public Sphere 3 on ICT & Creative Industry Development. It is very cool, and interactive!

Interesting article. "Our behaviour as journalists is now measurable. And measurability gives the lie to the pretence that journalists behave like scientists, impartially observing the petri dish of society."

Gorgeous poster for foss.my 2009, featuring a gorgeous kid in a penguin suit holding the OLPC laptop I gave to her at last year's foss.my

"The Marine Corps' ban on Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and other social media could hurt morale more than it helps security, a public policy researcher said. "The ban is at odds with realities of the 21st-century military," said Chris Bronk. Very interesting.

"Managing staff who participate in social networks." - some great links and guides put together by Laurel Papworth! Thanks!

"Far from heralding in a "2001: Space Odyssey" dystopia, Baron believes that social networking sites, blogs and the Internet are actually making us better writers and improving our ability to reach out to our fellow man." Very interesting!

Awesome timeshifting graphing tool. Very nice!

"It has come to my attention that the music industry now wants royalties for those 30-second clips of music you hear in iTunes." Insanity! Great article.

"So in case it's of use to others who are thinking of doing the same, I've turned BIS's Twitter strategy into a generic template Twitter strategy for Departments" Quite useful for gov esp politicians. A little over the top if terms of risk mgmt, but very useful.

"As a preview it's rough around the edges, may your love for data guide you." - Lovely, interactive and mashable datasets publicly available. Really useful!

"data visualizations you just gotta love…" - Lovely blog for chart and data philes

"How does the government spend our money - and what would you cut? Click on the link to hear economics editor". UK Government spending in beautiful interactive format. Nice!