It’s time to wind this thing down. The Guardian owns and pays for this site and domain, and has decided the blog has run its course, which is entirely their prerogative and fair enough. They’ve been great for the last two years.
We’ve got, I think, a final four weeks before it closes end October. I’ll try to have backed up the content which has some gems and nuggets, vital to the future historian of wibbies and of the Benighted ID Scheme.
I’ll be blogging personal and idealgov stuff over at williamheath.net, and e-government matters European will be covered at malmo09.org. My new work is covered at Mydex.org (which is quiet in blogging terms but busy behind the scenes) and at Ctrl-Shift (which is busy, blogs, and tweets too). Between them Mydex and Ctrl-Shift will seek to put right the things going wrong with personal data we have described over the years here (whether under the categories Identity, Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust or co-creation.
In a way this multi-author blog has done it’s job, and we’re increasingly just reporting stuff in the slightly smug but valid category “We told you so”. In another sense now, more than ever, is the time the online community needs to summon the energy and focus to tell a potential incoming administration just what we want from ideal e-enabled government - a crowd-sourced Wibbi in response to Transformational Government and the Benighted Scheme.
Of course that has to happen. But it won’t be on this site.