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How to make the most of Facebook, part 2
June’s edition of Total Politics carries the second part of a two part series from me about how people in politics can get the most out of Facebook.
In the May edition of Total Politics, I went through some of the steps to get started with using Facebook, including getting your privacy settings right and pulling [...]
More goodies from the mySociety team
Their latest idea – a service that combines commute times, property prices and the beauty of an area in order to show you where you might want to live – looks very neat. It is also, once again, a good example of how letting people get at data results in all sorts of unexpected conclusions. [...]
Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology
That’s the headline from The Register:
In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.
Closing out the longest-running court case in Wikiland history, the site’s Arbitration Committee voted 10 to 0 (with one abstention) [...]
Has the BNP been telling the truth about its website?
From The Register:
A supposedly massive denial of service attack against the British National Party website has been exposed as a gross exaggeration.
The assault, which began on Friday, was described by the party in an email appeal for funds as the “largest cyber attack in recorded history” and comparable only to a 2001 assault against Microsoft. [...]
The Daily Telegraph has a little legal problem
Bit of a legal blunder at the Daily Telegraph website today, with a story appearing about the sentences handed down following the death of Baby Peter. One problem: the story includes just under a big photograph, “PLEASE LEGAL (esp, can I say Baby P’s killer?)”: The answer, by the way, I think is “no” as [...]
How not to use Twitter: Haringey Council
Haringey Council (in north London) started using Twitter in the guise of @LBHaringey on 21 March. Between then and 27 March, 15 tweets were sent, albeit mostly simply news feed updates regarding the council website. And in the two months since then? Nothing. Perhaps Haringey has experimented and decided not to continue? But in that [...]
David Boothroyd in Wikipedia sockpuppeting brouhaha
From Dizzy Thinks:
David Boothroyd has had to resign from the “Wikipedia Supreme Court”. David Boothroyd is a Labour councillor in Westminster who comments on a number of right wing blogs including this one. He has an anally retentive insistent on this blog of referring to me by my full name for some reason.
I mentioned this [...]
How much should an MP spend on a website?
I’m all for MPs spending money on websites* and, just because you can set something up for free in five minutes, that doesn’t mean an MP can’t sensibly spend a reasonable chunk of money on a website. Good MP websites contain a wealth of content, design and functionality for which it is reasonable to pay [...]
A Conservative, a Facebook profile, an expulsion
From the Sunday Mirror:
A Tory activist has been expelled from the party for posting a picture of himself with a Hitler moustache on Facebook … And beside it, in the “My Favourite Quotes” section, he allegedly made racist and sexist comments, including one saying: “I don’t hate everyone, I just hate women …
A spokesman said: [...]
Which party leads online?
Social Media Affairs has just released a report looking at the political social media landscape in the UK (with, ahem, myself being one of the four people contributing introductory remarks about politics and social media).
Any report like this has to deal with all sorts of issues of definition and categorisation but there are some striking [...]
