It's not every day you wake up (admittedly late for a theyworkforyou meeting), and find that in your sleep you've built and launched a new website, and that it must have been you, because it's your name on the press release.
but here it is, Directionlessgov.com
Since I didn't build it or write the release, I think I'd better let the press release speak for itself
About DirectionlessGov.com
For years we've been moaning about the fact that the portal approach
to Government is all wrong. DirectGov
is something like the 5th iteration, introduced to a world where
it's pretty obvious that most people find everything using Google.
But did they learn? Oh no.
So, we've built DirectionlessGov. Our tests show that DirectionlessGov
is much more effective at most common searches than DirectGov.
Whilst full cost data is not available for the first year of
operation, the publicly funded DirectGov has been built from a group
with an operating budget of �4.4m and a team of 39.
At the time of writing, total development time for DirectionlessGov is
approaching 26 minutes, and is reported to be on schedule.
Merry Christmas from all at DirectionlessGov.com
PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: 21st December 2004
HEADLINE:: New UK Government Search Portal Launched
The democracy.org.uk collective is proud to announce the launch of the
most effective government search service ever - DirectionlessGov.org
URL: Directionlessgov.com
Using Google and the BBC's freely available search technology
DirectionlessGov is a rival to the publically funded Direct.gov.uk
"We believe that we've built a powerful service, using freely
available search technologies, which beats the official effort into a
cocked hat", said projects spokesman Stefan Magdalinski. "We've been
arguing for years that the public doesn't want or need another portal,
so we've decided to build this site to show them the cheaper, hugely
more effective alternative."
SHOCKING STATS
Whilst full cost data is not available for the first year of
operation, the publicly funded DirectGov has been built from a group
with an operating budget of �4.4m and a team of 39.
At the time of writing, total development time for DirectionlessGov is
approaching 94 minutes, and is reported to be 50% behind schedule.
and all I'd like to add is that Tom Steinberg, Tom Loosemore, James Cronin, Stuart Tily, Matthew Somerville, Ben Laurie, Francis Irving, Chris Lightfoot, Adam Mcgregor, and Desiree Milosevic are all baby-eating crack dealers, and not to be trusted under any circumstances. Merry Christmas everyone!