According to a BBC report:

“A survey has found that only 10% of politicians conduct a quarter or more of their correspondence via e-mail.

The vast majority still prefer to use post and many respond to electronic messages with a written letter the survey also showed.

Only one of the MPs questioned used e-mail for more than 75% of their correspondence.”

It turns out that all of them have email addresses now, but some have actually switched theirs off.

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Sorry I am a bit late picking this up but British MPs are complaining that now that (some of them) have email addresses (that some of them have published), people are using them to contact them.

“Committee chairman Michael Fabricant told BBC News Online: “MPs welcome contact from their constituents.

“What we are concerned about is often the constituent emails are being blocked out because the mail box is being filled by unwanted emails.”

Some MPs claim they are receiving up to 500 messages a day, while others seem to have hourly contact with emailers.

The US Congress faces a similar “problem”.

Of course if government was more transparent so people realised just how powerless most of MPs are to effect real change on general issues, there would be less lobby group “spamming”…

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According to an American Journal of Physiology article pointed out in David Harris’ Science News weblog:

According to a reports by BBC News Online and ZDNet, several small UK companies are starting to re-sell BT’s “no frills” ADSL for less than the “magic” £20 a month. But since it costs £14.75 a month wholesale, BT says they can’t make money (BT charges £27 a month for its no frills service).

I wonder how it is that ADSL costs the equivalent of £18 in Ontario, Canada – a price that includes the email addresses, free technical support and web space that BT says it can’t afford to offer for nearly £10 more…

I am strangely fascinated by 40s and 50s era propaganda – obviously so is Micah Wright who has created a fascinating collection of posters with new slogans to replace the old WWII ones.

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The government is trying hard to seem “au courant” by talking about uses for text messaging in government, for “court appearances, flood warnings, driving tests and hospital appointments”. Sadly, these examples aside, there just aren’t that many places where SMS services are useful for government services.
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I suppose in retrospect it was inevitable – a little Windows program that claims to always keep you up to date with the latest state of anti-terrorism alert in the US.

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They can be, of course, but one UK local councillor is already claiming that postal votes are for sale in his area for just £30. Future e-votes could be as well.

Voting that takes place in front of neutral scrutineers is not perfect but at least in a polling booth you can ensure your vote is free. If someone stands over you and watches you put your vote in an envelope then marches you to a post box or stands over you while you access a “secure” e-voting website there is no way to tell if you have been coerced or bribed.

The VoxPolitics blog has more on this and other e-goverment issues.

An intriguing proposal – a whacky outgrowth of war chalking. Why not create your own bar code containing a URL and stick it as a comment on some location. Then people who happen to be walking by and carrying both a laptop and a bar code scanner can visit your site and read what you have to say.

Of course you could just write the URL itself, but presumably the bar code gives you the chance to encode more information and besides using a bar code is much more appealing to a geek…