MPs have been given direct access to the site via a content management system, so the blogs aren’t moderated editorially by Echo or Post staff
The South Australian Government passed a Bill late last year which makes it illegal during election time to post political views on a blog or comment without also including a name and address.
when 2008's elections saw the ruling coalition lose key seats to the opposition, then-Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi admitted his government had underestimated the power of the internet.
So now, members of parliament from all over the country are using Twitter and Facebook to communicate with their voters.
The report also analysed media, journalists and influencers. While established media, like The Economist, The Guardian, Sky News and the Financial Times top the list for most followers, journalists (Channel 4’s @krishgm), bloggers (@timmontgomerie and @iaindale) and activists (@bevaniteellie) receive more mentions and retweets - they and, not the Sun, are more likely to win it on Twitter.
1. It reduces the barriers to getting involved in political activism and political media - either independently or through political parties
2. It enables political parties or movements to mobilise support (eg Barrack Obama) much more efficiently
3. It allows political parties and activists to start to escape from mainstream media agenda setting
4. It allows much quicker and more open reform of political parties themselves
5. It allows Government to open itself up to the public and so become more transparent and therefore, both more democratic and efficient
It will form a distinct unit within a new media company, owned jointly by Stephan Shakespeare and Lord Ashcroft, who will take a 57.5% stake in the holding company. ConservativeHome and ConservativeIntelligence will continue to be part of the same group of companies but as before they operate in completely different spheres and there will be no editorial crossover whatsoever.
I became Editor-in-Chief on the basis that PoliticsHome was dedicated to being a non-partisan site clearly independent of any party both editorially and financially. It was essential for users of the site that they could feel absolute confidence in the political independence of PoliticsHome. I do not believe that can be compatible with being under the ownership of the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party.
If the politicians like social media so much, then we must be doing something wrong.
accepted that independent social media is now part of the political communications landscape. They realise it will be rude, irregular and unpredictable. They even agreed that they should make sure that they and their parties, councils and government should be open to what social media can do for their electors.but and a big but
I didn’t get the sense that they thought it would really change anything. The ballot box and party politics are safe. The system sees social media as a tool for making the machine work more smoothly, not for a change of gear, let alone direction.
there is not the critical mass behind social political media either locally or nationally for it to make much of a real-world difference
The makings of a global community do not rest on fast access to international content-sharing websites or the immediate gratification of creating a blog housed for free by Google. Without context, knowing an unlimited amount of information is just a mouse-click away does no more to enhance your sense of community than purchasing a used Christmas ornament on eBay.
while bloggers reach to effect change, and hope to shift the “ways citizens and politicians practice politics” simply by changing the model of sharing information, their work is rarely read outside small circles of fans and vehement detractors.
April saw a total of over 3.6m pageviews from 1,382,879 visits by 347,994 visitors making 2,995,765 pageviews plus 680,207 views via RSS feed readers. Not bad for one guy with a laptop, Blackberry and a penchant for Guinness. With traffic averaging over 100,000 pageviews daily this blog puts traditional political publications like the New Statesman in the shade,and adds
Many thanks to you the readers and the advertisers who make this blog more profitable than both the Guardian and Independent combined.
He asked me how I did it. H ow I managed to get original stories that his paper and other papers and broadcasters then picked up on ran with - a mainstream media hit as it were. When I told him that I read through the information published by Parliament daily each morning; scanned the departmental websites for freedom of information request responses; sent sporadic FoI's into departments asking questions that might elicit interesting answers and wrote my own little programmes that could pattern match other available information online, he was taken aback.
The creator of the Guido Fawkes website, Paul Staines, is in my view one of the most influential figures in the British media. One day this week I heard five items on the Today programme that followed up his stories or his observations. Politicians have not learnt how to cope with an individual who has as much impact as entire newspapers. He is one of the reasons why Derek Draper, the recipient of McBride's emails, felt the need for a left of centre equivalent.
The easiest column to write is an attack on Brown. You are part of the pack, safely protected by hundreds of other articles and blogs all making the same points and you know you will be showered with praise for your boldness. If anyone writes a defence they will be slaughtered for being tame.
simply offered his material to the newspapers in the sweet old fashioned way as recipients of leaks have been doing for generations.
It's important, however, to keep blogs in context. Those who dismiss them as an irrelevance to real politics, like those bloggers who dismiss the mainstream media as archaic, are equally wrong. The reality is that the overwhelming majority of people still get their news from traditional media, whether it is newspapers or broadcasters.adding that
In the end, the difference between quality newspapers and even serious blogs is that your default reaction to a newspaper piece should be that it is true, whereas your default reaction to a blog post should be that it might be true, but it might equally well be a pack of lies."
MPs are trying to look in touch by using the latest webtools. But all they reveal is how insecure the political elite has become
In this country, middle-aged MPs hope they will look youthful and “in touch” if they use the latest web tool. But there is a slight Dad-on-the-dancefloor feel to some of their attempts. The content is all too often less twitter than witter. Is the reputation of politics really enhanced by the revelation that Jim Knight, the Schools Minister, is “snowed under with paperwork” or that Grant Shapps, the Tory housing spokesman, is “contemplating taking my eldest son to play football in the rain” or that Tom Harris, the Labour MP, “can't find the TV remote control”?she writes and if that is what it is used for then she is correct.
The White House decided in advance which reporters would be selected. And on Monday night, correspondents for The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Time and Newsweek were not on the list.
The TwitVote result was 86% for Obama; 14% for McCain. Twitterholic's Top 100 is dominated by bloggers and Silicon Valley executives who are wildly effusive about Obama: remember the simultaneous, worldwide Twittergasm on January 20?
A great deal of public discourse is still hijacked by liberals, particularly where it concerns media and the arts. Lefties are generally the "content creators" on the web.
a green paper will be published in the New Year setting out plans to make it easier for people to sue for defamation. The idea is to cut down the disproportionate costs of bringing a libel action and there’s even a suggestion that there could be a small claims court for libel.
The move is bound to be seen as a way of dealing with government irritants such as Guido and to a lesser extent Iain Dale.
Tomorrow morning Derek Draper is convening a "New Media Breakfast" meeting with dozens of Labour bloggers and New Media types to hear from Blue State Digital how Labour can use the Internet to win the next election. Blue State Digital are the people that did Obama's online stuff - rather well.
