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Parliament flashmob: the rolled up newspaper is mightier than the pen

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Quick & dirty vid of today’s flashmob at in Westminster, in protest at our favourite media barons’ attempts to swing the election to suit themselves, and get themselves out of the mess a hung parliament might land them in.

Nice to see so many people there (including from Avaaz, 38Degrees, and Liberal Conspiracy), and a chance to meet some new faces, and get thumped by them with a roll of paper. If you weren’t there, don’t forget the 38degrees petition.

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Election 2010: It’s the Sun wot spun it

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

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Parliament flashmob today. Check the Facebook event page for more info.

Are you in London this lunchtime? Then I guess I’ll see you at a location soon to be divulged for a newspaper swordfight. The coverage from the partisan press has been pretty shameful this time round – Clegg and Brown have had the same dumping on that Kinnock faced, as Murdoch scrabbles to make sure he’s backed the winning side in the election.  (more…)

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I’d vote for that. Tom Watson’s digital pledges

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Tom Watson MP is using his blog and Uservoice.com to work up a kind of digital manifesto – getting down in black and white a set of principles that will guide his decision making if the voters choose to return him to Parliament at the election. After a very credible, and creditable, stance in the run up to the passing of the Digital Economy Bill, he’s made a pretty good stab at it too. Check out his blog to see the discussion around his draft list.

He hits one of my bugbears fairly squarely: “I will support all measures to bring non-personal public data into the public domain“. I think a pretty important point on this one is that it should be freely available. It may sound obvious, but that’s not what’s happened in some recent attempts to open up data. (more…)

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Voting tomorrow (hello Mum!)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Fame at last – I made the cut for Unions Together’s new YouTube video for tomorrow’s elections ;)   – Make sure you’re not blinking near the start if you want to catch me! (more…)

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MyBarackObama’s for life, not just for Christmas

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Good post today at JP Rangaswami’s Confused of Calcutta. He’s been reading Pew Internet’s latest report on post-election voter engagement (always one reason his excellent blog gets my gratitude, as he pulls out so many great nuggets from Pew Internet and saves me having to read them all! Now, if he’d just stop going on about cricket…).

When people signed up (as they did in their droves) for MyBarackObama.com accounts, they thought they were entering into a relationship with the campaign that would last well beyond the goal of the election. Apparently 62% of Obama voters fully expect to be involved in campaigning to actually deliver his policies (25% of online recruits expecting to be able to keep active online in this way). 46% expect ongoing communications directly from Obama and his team (and 33% of McCain voters expect it from their guy too, showing they, like he, are certainly ‘aware of the internet’). 27% of online Obama voters have been keen enough to follow the transition period online too. (more…)

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