as days pass by

The MySociety crew, who are responsible for excellent things like WriteToThem (which replaces FaxYourMP), have built PledgeBank. PledgeBank is a central clearing house for “pledges”—you say “I’ll write to the BBC and ask them to do things in ogg format as long as 30 other people will too“, and the site handles all the administration of collecting those thirty people. You still have to convince thirty people to do it, but at least you don’t have to try and track all their names and email them to remind them.

If 20 other people will write to their MP to ask for it too, then I will write to my MP asking for free wireless internet access in the British Library (Tom Steinberg)