Charlie Beckett notes that all this capacity to dig down in depth into other news bases does not mean that somehow there is a new, internet-based global market for news… It’s sort of borne out by this visualisation from the PDF EU event in Barcelona of the patterns in online conversation which take place in ...
On Slugger, we’re currently in the process of packing down a tight set of rules which we hope to share with other political blogs who are keen on promoting civil engagement between their commenters. Top of the list of things we hope to capture is a clearer understanding of the difference between a breach of ...
On Slugger, we’re currently in the process of packing down a tight set of rules which we hope to share with other political blogs who are keen on promoting civil engagement between their commenters. Top of the list of things we hope to capture is a clearer understanding of the difference between a breach of ...
As Guido notes, the Conservative’s in-house digi-guru Rishi Saha has been appointed as a civil servant in a “to-be-merged Downing Street and Cabinet Office online team as Deputy Director of Communications”. He’s the one who curated the ‘Blue Blog’, the party’s first step into the often boisterous world of the blogosphere… Guido appends this note: ...
I was up in London last night co-hosting a session with London based colleague Paul Evans: we’re collaborating on a couple of projects. This pub session was to help us progress with a policy focused site we’re working on by gathering criticism from a small group of experts/enthusiasts for constructive civic engagement with government. Earlier ...
Apparently I’ve been tagged twice for this blog meme idea started by Matt Wardman, so you can see my thoughts on Labour’s new leader below the fold. I’ve deliberately avoided foreign policy, and not laboured exclusively on his handling of the economy. I’ve been tagged by Anthony over at OpenDemocracy, so here’s my late offering: ...
Whilst we’ve seen a slow (and radical) shift in the way British papers began by dipping their toes tentatively in the blogosphere water. Now, it seems de rigeur for most of the mainstream. Irish papers have still, by and large, to take the plunge. The Bivings Report has some starter tips for nervous editors, particularly ...
Front page of the LA Times yesterday, the Digg website is facing a revolution because it tried to ban its users from recommending an illegal code that helps people pirate copies of online movies. ...
In March I was asked to respond informally to a presentation by George Osbourne at the RSA on the need to for government to listen to and respond to those outside the official political and professional cadres in central government. The main thrust of his speech related to the economic and technological good sense of ...
Simon at Irishelection.com ably demonstrates the difference between good political PR and bad… Good is when things happen like you say they will, and bad, well, is when people remember if they don’t… ...
There is much to be said for some of Polly Toynbee’s argument in her Bagehot Lecture, organised by Queen Mary College recently, and entitled “The art of the column”. Particularly when she argued: ...
It’s more than four years since political bloggers in the US first exerted their considerable collective power. Then they took their first political scalp: the resignation of Republican majority Senate leader Trent Lott over politically embarrassing remarks that were, at first, largely ignored in the mainstream press. ...
According to the Economist, the answer is yes. As it notes, the blogads model only contributes minorly towards costs rather than generates income. The money making blogs in the States it mentions have signed up to the more targeted kind of ad service that MessageSpace offers. ...
Slugger got a first link and recommend from Doc Searls himself for the piece on the Oireachtas ban on blogging at work. ...
My CIF post on the Oireachtas’s decision to bar employees from blogging, gave rise to an interesting conversation. Not least in this comment from Mike Brisco who works at (but does not blog from) Flinders University in Australia. He argues that his university specifies precisely what he can and cannot do in work time, and ...