“- IT upgraded in Brent – so council staff can discuss the world cup online” - maybe the Council and BRAVA will find the resources to support The Bonnet Project so residents associations and community groups can communicate with each other online.

hush! here’s a sneek on something I’ve been working on at comwifinet recently… Spot it? Text it! - report things to Brent Council via SMS and MMS. What things? a faulty parking meter, fly-tipping, broken things in the environment that you see out and about. Here is the opportunity to report them as you see them… using your mobile phone.

I posted recently on what could be done next with this journal. “wither b.e.c?” i asked. well, new projects are on the horizon. I’ve been working on a community information network project with Colin George, Chair of QPARA and Director of MarketSpark (publisher of the excellent Local Directories for Brent residents associations). We see a need to weave links between associations and organisations active in Brent and an opportunity to develop such a network in the light of the demise of Brent Community Empowerment Network....

I’m a big user of messaging applications. From my email addiction to my instant messaging accounts. I like IM’s. I like online status messages. My current online status reads: ‘that’s not a pig - it’s a shaved cat with its tail permed’. My friend Adoms' status messages are usually a gem. Currently it reads ‘We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered....

Last weeks' (24th May) KTimes carried two stories about potential legal challenges to the results of the Brent Council elections. I don’t know what is happening with the query about the election of Cllr Pawan Gupta in Dudden Hill but I do have some news on the challenge to the count in Queen’s Park. I understand that Brent Council have written to all the candidates in the Queen’s Park ward acknowledging the concern and the reasoning behind the querry raised by Shahrar Ali....