As part of my research into Lewisham’s Democracy Review I needed to look at web site design, UX/UI and usability because theirs is very poor. Here’s what I found about being good.
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Open access to research
I read Marc Armstrong’s academic paper Open Access to Research and wanted to make a commentary on my blog. Here are my notes,
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More on classes in D+D
For some reason I looked at the video below/overleaf on Youtube, it’s about D&D character classes and multi-classing and this is my response. Not sure how useful it is as most of the words relate to rules no longer used. I conclude with the words, “in summary, if playing in a balanced party, given the…
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Dungeons & Dragons
I bought Ben a copy of the AD&D 5e Starter Pack for Xmas, let’s hope he reciprocates by asking me to join in, although how to do that while’s he’s abroad might be fun … need to check out NWN worlds. Here are some notes….
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Lewisham Council’s Democracy Review
Lewisham Council, are looking at their constitution to see if they make it more democratic. They are running a consultation which started in 2018 and is planned to finish and I propose to submit some evidence. I thought I understood how it worked, but I don’t; here are my notes.
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Employee Protection
I did a course on employment law and here are some notes.
Read moreRed or Blue
A poll, using YOP Poll between Red & Blue [yop_poll id=1]
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Collaboration Tools
Having another thing about collaboration, and renewed my aquaintance with discuto and loomio. I also consider the big boys!
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Forms with Google
The time has come! I found this, and am working through it as an example. Here are my notes.
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Measuring Democracy
Often one finds that people argue their solution is more democratic; how does one know? Some political scientists have looked at measuring democracyness, here’s what I have found.
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On the ECHR and its conflict with UK law
Here’s some links about the ECHR and why its a marmite issue in British Politics.
Read moreCorbyn’s 10 Point Plan
In the 2016 Labour Leadership campaign, Jeremy Corbyn made 10 pledges, which were then adopted by Conference 2016. The pledges have disappeared from the site, but I checked on the wayback machine and have made this image from that site’s pledge page.
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Easy Index
While experimenting with YOP Poll, I came across Easy Index, which looked rather pretty, although it depends on on the featured images chosen. I made a category index to see how it looked. This might be better if one of the first plugins chosen as it would allow you to chose the featured images more…
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Polling in WordPress
I checked out YOP Poll this evening; a wordpress polling plugin. Here are my notes.
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Flickr Slide Shows
This page documents my use of widgets, HTML and plugins to display flickr slide shows on my blogs. As at August 2021, I am using wordpress plugins see below/overleaf or on the blog wordpress now support flickr URLs with a native embed. I just have to paste the URL. Here are my notes, developed over…
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