Saturday, September 05, 2009

Martha Lane Fox's blogging experience

Paul Bradshaw's MA Social media course is starting up and they are blogging regularly

John Hickman has been doing some investigation of the Government's digital inclusion champion Martha Lane Fox and

happened to take a look at her website today, and was a little surprised by what I found. It’s a slick looking site, but it seems to lack some understanding of the digital world which Lane Fox is selling to the public. I find this a little worrying. There are two issues which I’d like to pick up on: technical problems and voice.


The technical being that the site lacks an RSS feed,surely an appropriate tool for people keeping track of postings but also that it is difficult to decide who is actually speaking on the blog

As he concludes

You too can be a champion of the digital world, all you need is the budget to buy a web designer’s time. And an executive assistant.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I grepped a feed from the diary on her site... 5 minutes more investment than she has managed

http://feed43.com/marthalanefox.xml

DK