Yokelahoma

Dave Fletcher rightly points out the chains that bind Utah's state site, Your Oklahoma.

According to youroklahoma.com, the official website for the State of Oklahoma, their most popular site is the "Accountancy Board".

I know Oklahoma is not the sexiest state in the union, but the Accountancy Board? Something's amok...

DirectGov: UK's response to FirstGov?

From Directgov:

Welcome to our brand new service. Directgov is the place to turn to for the latest and widest range of public service information. Browse the lists below or go straight to search

As a UK-bound tourist this summer, I can't find a "visitors" link under "Information for...," but otherwise this is a respectable, though exceedingly orange, offering. Subportals, top-5 lists, search (had trouble finding anything on "e-government" until I used its advanced search interface). Oh, yeah: An astonishing lack of sentences ending in periods. In any event, great to see a government portal follow the likes of FirstGov.

Postscript: Bev Godwin, director of FirstGov who attended last week's IASummit, relates that the U.S. portal was named that way not because the U.S. was or is the "first," but because the portal aims to be citizen's "first" stop for government services.