Money lubricates engagement

DAVE GREEN LEADS off his weekly column with a reflection of how "the busy bees of MySociety and the (comparatively) slow-moving Open Rights Group" and his point hits home with me because the Irish Digital Rights group also needs ways of receiving donations from many angles in order to facilitate democratic engagement. Green points out that "MySociety have turned their internal-nagging email bot *inside out* and converted it to an outward-facing web site which will regularly remind you about anything you were planning to do but keep forgetting. Like a cron job for the rest of your life, the site promises to "hassle you roughly" every X days according to what you specify, and even utilises 'semi-unpredictable' intervals to prevent you anticipating (and attempting to avoid?) its relentless good intentions.

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