I was just looking for some stuff to do in San Francisco next week while I’m there and came across this photo of Wired editor Chris Anderson explaining the Long Tail. It looks like the Pro-Am idea is spreading…

I edited Pick Me Up last week and popped in a little story about the Harrow Open Budget. You can read it here.

Tom Steinberg popped into Demos last night and was chatting about how HearFromYourMP is growing surely but steadily without any publicity. The idea is that when 50 people sign up for a particular constiuency, a message will be sent to the MP asking if they want to use the email list that’s been generated for a discussion.

I signed up a little while ago but just noticed that you can see how many people have signed up in your constituency and, well, Carshalton and Wallington isn’t doing very well. We’re on 4. I’m going to see if I can encourage a few friends…