Chris Lightfoot
Terrible news arrives via Devil’s Kitchen that blogger’s blogger and all round good egg Chris Lightfoot died unexpectedly and long before his time on February 11th.
I wondered if something was in the wind last week when somebody reached Chicken Yoghurt by googling Chris and him having died. I then heard him mentioned in a podcast shortly afterwards and so assumed that he was alive and well. Sadly, not.
I knew Chris only vaguely via his excellent blog, the fantastic websites he would build to help foster political engagement, and his occasional kind offers – to webhost sites for other bloggers looking for a home – that would circulate various email groups.
You can read here and here just what an impressive man he was.
Tom Steinberg of MySociety says of Chris: ‘It doesn’t stretch the truth an inch to say that with his death the whole of the UK’s citizenry, not just his family, friends and colleagues, will be worse off’.
Update: Tim Ireland says it better. And a heartbreaking number of tributes are coming in.
Update 8/3: A comprehensive list of tributes is being kept on Chris’ site.
Posted on March 5th, 2007 at 1:05pm under Civil liberties, Science and progress
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To: Chris Lightfoot…
Damn it, Chris! 1. We were supposed to spend more facetime together. 2. I was supposed to pay you back for the many times you offered your help, support, advice and expertise. 3. You were supposed to be acknowledged as……
Well fuck… Never got the chance to meet the guy, but he evidently had something special going on in that head of his.
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There’s no justice…
It has taken some time before I could bring myself to write this piece. Today I heard of Chris Lightfoot’s untimely death. I first got to know Chris through his work with mySociety and the excellent Political Survey, two masterful……
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