Tweets from the excellent @ruskin147 (the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones) alert me to the Cabinet Office analysis of Government websites. They've grown with a carelessness for true cost, value and impact only matched in the BBC - and now they're being slashed.
The Government has also laid out metrics by which all sites will be measured in future, which attempt to deal with the tricky business of part-time effort in maintaining content.
But control isn't always possible - a pained page 5 of the report lists new sites set up without Cabinet Office approval. They are...
marinemanagement.org.uk (new site - range of departments "working together")
cabinetforum.org (for creative industry engagement, set up apparently by the DCMS)
begrand.net (for grandparents - seems to have used seed money from the Department for Education, but hopes to rival Mumsnet)
census.gov.uk (previously closed site re-opened by the Office for National Statistics, branded Direct.gov)
censusjobs.co.uk (new micro-site, aimed at recruiting people to work on the 2011 census)
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