Backburner

Some questions. What are the names of your local councillors? What about your MP? Your MEPs? If you have a complaint about your local hospital closing, which of `them should you contact? Or if you want to mention the great teaching in your local school? Or campaign about dropping Third World debt? Or just moan about the state of your pavements?

If you breezed through that interrogation, chances are that what follows won’t be of much interest to you. For the rest of us though, today sees the test launch of WriteToThem.com, which should make life easier for all … Continue Reading

Rhys’ note: For fairly obvious reasons, Tom Steinberg’s mobile number doesn’t appear here. If you’re a bona fide journalist and you want it, drop him or myself an email.

PRESS RELEASE

SUBJECT: WriteToThem.com {Launching Monday) allows British Citizens to write to any of their elected representatives, from MPs to councillors, easily and for free.

Date: Monday 14th February 2004 – EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY 1AM

Contact: Tom Steinberg – 07xxx xxxxxx – tom@mysociety.org

What it Does

mySociety is pleased to announce the beta launch of WriteToThem.com [ http://www.writetothem.com ]. WriteToThem.com allows any British citizen to discover the identity of and then send a message to … Continue Reading

The weblog discovery of my week has been Holl Garthion fy Mhen Ynghyd (lit. trans: All the Rubbish from My Head, Together – who says Welsh isn’t a compact language?), a photo weblog with various pictures from in and around Swansea. An inventive photographer who manages to capture some scrumptious scenes. Worth a look even if you don’t live in this city.