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A bit more political transparency in the UK

We’re huge fans of the work TheyWorkForYou put into archiving and making accessible the process of British Government. And we encourage you to help them out with a bit of crowdsourced video-tweaking if you can.

Meanwhile, we notice that the august Beeb has started twittering from Parliament. Last time we looked they had under 80 followers (including us!), but give ‘em a chance. A nice simple way to maintain some peripheral awareness of What Goes On in politics.

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  1. James [June 20th, 2008 at 11:06 am ]

    There’s plenty more poitical twittering going on, officially from Downing Street:

    http://twitter.com/downingstreet

    And parliament.uk:

    http://twitter.com/ukparliament

    As well as my own unnofficial twitterbots (set up before either of the above):

    http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/twitterpolitics/

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