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Titter Ye Not: the lighter side of social technology
Technology, government and politics are not always a laugh a minute, but we thought we'd try and put together a list of e-government and e-democracy links which might raise a chuckle.
Here are our suggestions: do email in your own favourites to Mel Poluck on mel@headstar.com with the subject line 'funny links'. We'll cite you as a source if we use them.
Mash-up News
chicagocrime.org
A browseable database of crimes in the city. Search by crime, police district or draw a line on the map of Chicago, and see crimes along that route – then choose a different way to walk.
Spoof government sites
Directionless Government
A DirectGov spoof cobbled together in minutes using Google tools to allegedly outperform the government’s multi-million pound services search engine.
Preparing for emergencies
Guardian report on another classic government website spoof, from 2004.
Tall stories
Al Gore: Father of the Internet?
Did Al Gore or did he not claim to have invented the internet?
WebCam Corner
Hackney demolitions
All the recent “blowdowns” or tower block demolitions in Hackney have been recorded here.
Ordsall Hall GhostCam
Privacy campaigners may be interested to see that CCTV in Salford is hounding residents even beyond the grave.
Wirral Barn Owl Webcam
Who can resist the charms of Ellesmere Port & Neston’s avian facility?
Webcameron Corner
Cameron’s blog targeted by spoof
BBC report on UKIP spoof of Webcameron.
Sion Simon MP’s ‘Webcameron down with the kids’
The original Webcameron spoof. Want to sleep with my wife? That's cool. Come down, check it out, we'll sort it out. Safe.
Tom Watson MP’s ‘Clean up politics with David Cameron’.
Another real MP, another spoof.
Will Howell’s ‘Webcameraon’.
Yet another spoof, from the Blogosphere.
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