By: jaduncan
Story's not even true. [...] Orlowski Two concepts that often go together. You should try reading his utterly terrible climate pieces sometime [1]; it's entirely possible that his hate-on for the BBC...
View ArticleBy: genghis
Hartster: That jumped out for me for a different reason. Orlowski, who appears himself in the history of the interwebs exactly nowhere (having never contributed anything except trolling-for-money),...
View ArticleBy: dhartung
Not just a little unfair. This is The Register we're talking about. Wouldn't want to push them out of their comfort zone.
View ArticleBy: honest knave
Not just a little unfair. Gov.uk is a broad sweeping initiative that has completely rethought how access to major UK government sites should work. It's oriented toward the questions and needs that...
View ArticleBy: zamboni
After months of deliberation, the GOV 2.0 recently standardised on a new font for Whitehall sites, called Transport.Transport has been around since the 60s - it's the typeface used for road signs in...
View ArticleBy: yath
"Karas ensured the programmers were kept well away from the data store. "Programmers don't have a clue how databases work, particularly the security side," he said. "I hired a database administrator...
View ArticleBy: adrianhon
I think that's a little unfair about GOV 2.0 (aka GOV.UK). It's not like the only thing they were doing for months was umming and ahhing over the font; all in all I've been impressed with the redesign,...
View ArticleBy: MartinWisse
Yes, this is another good case study in how to get to do something cool, well: small teams of smart, dedicated people, shelter from internal and external bureaucracies and people willing to make the...
View ArticleBy: NoRelationToLea
Great link - thanks for sharing. For better or worse, I know this world a little too well. Getting long established organizations to do something new is really, really hard.
View ArticleBy: Hartster
My favourite parenthetical note in the story is: "He went on to head a large team devising "BBC 2.0", which was cancelled, and now works at a vastly expanded Cabinet Office devising "GOV 2.0"– a...
View ArticleNation shall speak unto nation using Objective-C
The inside story of the website that saved the BBC
View ArticleBy: danhon
Hartster: it's *an* article, certainly, and a good history about the genesis of BBC News does deserve to be told. That said, there are some glaring inaccuracies and, well, it's a bit par for the course...
View ArticleBy: Hartster
I think I managed to derail my own FPP right out of the gate, which must at least equal the record. I don't really pay much attention to either The Register or Orlowski (or, in fact, Gov 2.0), but this...
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