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02 Apr 2008

Government rebranding disease spreads to URLs

It’s all very well Cab-in-a-Toffice renaming itself Dburr or Deafferer rebranding as Office of the deputy Prime Minister’s ego. What’s a few new brass plates and a corporate redesign between taxpayers? But this sort of thing is wholly unnecessary:

Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:49:46 +0100
From: Adam Bahadoor
To: varioussubjectsdetained@hermajestyspleasure.com
Subject: Government News Network
Message-ID: <47F372DA.363A.00C8.0@coi.gsi.gov.uk>

Dear Detainee

I am writing to you from the Central Office of Information News Distribution Service.

On 1 April 2008 the Government News Network (GNN) and the News Distribution Service (NDS) will become part of COIs News and PR Group. The look and branding of this site have therefore changed, although the services remain the same.

From 1 April 2008 the link - http://www.gnn.gov.uk will no longer exists. You will be re-directed to our new page on http://nds.coi.gov.uk . This will have affect eventually to subscriber of your RSS feed, unless you make the necessary changes.

Happy to discuss further

Adam

Adam Bahadoor
Business Development Manager
News Distribution Service
Hercules House
Hercules Road
London
SE1 7DU

Email: adam.bahadoor[at]gnn.gsi.gov.uk

But Adam...but...but...but

As Sir Bonar would say: “Desist, whippersnappers! And give us back our streams of data!”

WIBBI people thought about the URLs that they wanted people to use…

• Posted by William Heath on 02/04/08 at 1:53pm
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