[LINK] UK government to create 'super websites'

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:20 +1100 11/1/07, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>I thoroughly dislike, as a consumer/taxpayer, having to assess which 
>is the best location to find information, and in any event, there is 
>simply too much of it about to make sense of it much of the time 
>(less is more).

Entry-Points are hardly a new idea:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ESD.html#MO
(1999, reporting on consultancy work of the preceding years)

The Entry-Point concept is distinct from 'portal'/'vortal' and its ilk:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/WillPay.html#Comm5

Examples include:
http://www.australia.gov.au/
http://www.business.gov.au/
http://www.canberraconnect.act.gov.au/
http://www.vic.gov.au/

Dispersed repositories, using common protocols and standards.

(No, they didn't implement anything like all of the recommendations 
we gave them;  but some of these sites are reasonably functional).

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