You Better You Bet
And so following the launch of the #lambethcoop wiki (woh!) less than twenty-four hours ago, the wiki edits are coming in quick and fast.
That’s the idea of online co-op (steady…) eration. People share knowledge, work together and place spread bets on the outcome that @LambethLabour’s Big Society John Lewis model will actually work.
Yeah, yeah, a cheap shot, but the first edit to the wiki appeared this morning:
“Lambeth Council accepts no responsibility or has any editorial control over the adverts supplied by Google that appear on the right hand side of this wiki. These appear as we have set this wiki up under the free subscription option as provided by wikispaces.”
I tweeted yesterday how the self-generated Google ads appearing on the wiki page aren’t quite in line with a squeaky clean Nu Labour local authority. It seems that a wiki editor also agrees.
Still, the use of the free subscription service by @LambethLabour for the wiki is to be applauded. At least it’s keeping in line with the Big Society John Lewis model of saving some money.
Of course it would be extremely childless to add edits to the wiki with the intention of influencing which Google ads actually appear on the page.
Wouldn’t it?
I’m offering odds on even that we find out who is actually sitting on the (unelected) Citizen’s Commission that met secretly for the first time yesterday.
Plus: @BrixtonBlog’s take on the wonders of the Big Society John Lewis White Paper.
28/05/2010 at 10:46 am Permalink
As someone who doesn’t have the patience to read through the whitepaper and wiki, I have a question: does the co-op council plan mean we will have fewer councillors and council bureaucrats? Or will they simply do less work as more of the load is shifted to volunteers?
28/05/2010 at 11:57 am Permalink
@matt There is no mention in the White Paper of fewer Councillors, or even a reduction in the allowances paid to councillors. The Tory group actually proposed a 5% drop in the allowances at the full council meeting on Wednesday. @LambethLabour blocked this
Council staff are being cut though. Buried away deep on the @lambeth_council website (and published on the same day as the White Paper) was the proposed loss of 400 council jobs.
Ouch.