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Is that news or a blog?

By scott

One of the very noticeable things to come with the new coalition government has been a very quick overhaul of several of the departmental websites, with things getting even more web2.0 (am I even allowed to still use that term anymore?) than before.

Over at the DCMS for example things are going all, well, bloggy. Minister for Tourism and Heritage, John Penrose, published the first ‘of what I very much hope will become a weekly bulletin describing what I?ve been up to, who I?ve met and ? from time to time ? my thoughts and reflections on issues that I?ve had to deal with in the week’ (comments disabled of course). All seems quite jolly and a nice idea.

However, that doesn’t explain why Sports and Olympics Minister, Hugh Robertson, who has decided to do something similar ? a look forward at the week ahead type thing - “This is the first of what will be regular previews of my week ahead, I hope they will shed some light on the day to day work of a Sport and Olympics Minister” is not on the blog, but under ‘latest news’ instead.

Why is one ‘news’, and the other a ‘blog’ item? All seems a bit unjoined-up to me. DCMS, a quiet word ? put them both in the blog feed.

Full post as published by Information Overload on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).