Comments on: British Foreign Office bloggers in Russia

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:11:14 +0000

Yeah, I think I probably commented on the cost at the time, over at my old blog.

I suppose the cost comes mainly from two things

1) wanting to have a system that’s more robust than WordPress – can you imagine the flak he’d have gotten if he’d been hacked on day 1.

2) Stuff that government does inevitably costs ten times as much as outside, in the real world.

By: Da Russophile

Da Russophile — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:23:29 +0000

How DO you manage that?

I would’ve thought even a fully professionally set up blog, like Robert Amsterdam’s, would cost no more than a few hundred.

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By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:00:34 +0000

He was the first British Cabinet Minister to set up a blog, way back in 2006 when he was Minister for Trade, a move that resulted in the typical British reaction to anything new – horror.

IIRC, the bulk of the horror came from bloggers who could not understand how he managed to spend a few thousand pounds of taxpayers’ money setting up his blog, while every other blogger in the world managed it for free.

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