Alun Pugh, the fat owl of the Welsh Assembly Remove, has lost his seat to a Conservative, Darren Millar. Even though Millar has had a little bit of press interest and believes that Creationism should be taught in science lessons - he still beat the former Welsh Culture Minister, Alun Pugh.
Some visitors again from the Welsh Office (hello) and if they come back they might like to know I think I’ll have something interesting for them soon about a fiddled poll, waste of taxpayers’ money, corruption, lies and Benford’s Law.
From Forbes Magazine:
By Internet standards RSS is ancient, invented circa 1997
From the Welsh Assembly:
At this stage, however, Cymru Ar-lein is not in a position to do more than monitor the rise in popularity of both RSS and Weblogs. While keen to embrace and promote appropriate new technologies both within the National Assembly for Wales and throughout Wales as a whole. Cymru Ar-lein must move at a pace which is feasible for our customers (sic).
The Welsh Assembly still has a website that contravenes the law (the Disability and Discrimination act) and isn’t the least bit accessible. Now the website isn’t even working.
This could be a Server caching error, or it might be caused by limited memory. Perhaps the latest service pack hasn’t been applied.
Axlog on BBC accessibility is not too impressed by the Graf report. I think he’s right to be annoyed. I’d have been more pissed-off myself but Zeldman cautions against crowing in the case of the accessible Odeon site designed by Matthew Somerville.
The Welsh Assembly hasn’t grasped the possibilities of RSS (or Atom) syndication. Although sites like AssemblyOnline have been providing RSS feeds of the Welsh Assembly media briefings and forum postings for some time, it seems the Welsh Assembly itself thinks you aren’t quite ready for it. Here’s what they say:
Zeldman links to our remarks about the Welsh Assembly website.
But other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?
Well, it boosted traffic for a bit.
The Welsh Assembly is redeveloping its website. A check of the new homepage shows that:
Assembly Online was setup without using blogging software, unlike our bigger cousin, Downing Street Says, because we didn’t see much use for most of the baggage of, say, Moveable Type.
