Archive for Online politics
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) [...]
Get the Lib Dem European manifesto on your iPhone
The party’s manifesto for the European elections is also available as an iPhone app. If you have access to an iPhone or iPod touch you can view it. Go to apps store and search for Liberal Democrats. The app is free.
And don’t forget, you can also get the party’s TV broadcasts (PPBs) using our iTunes [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
An easy way for by-election candidates to communicate with voters
votewise.co.uk - the independent website which lists forthcoming by-elections and candidates (and which I blogged about here) - has recently started displaying page view figures on the biography pages for each by-election candidate. The numbers (even allowing for being page views rather than absolute unique visitors) are generally impressive, with a candidate’s page being typically [...]
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 [...]
Tweeting in adversity: Elliot Morley
Last year I wrote about blogging in adversity:
When things go wrong or bad news breaks, it can be tempting to hunker down and say nothing. If you’re a blogger, particularly one who allows comments, the idea of having to write something for your blog can be very off-putting. The thought of ignoring the keyboard and [...]
How to make the most of Facebook
May’s edition of Total Politics carries part one of a two part series from me about how people in politics can get the most out of Facebook.
Liberal Democrat Voice has covered many aspects of Facebook in the past, including tips for keeping on top of your notifications and Steve Webb’s innovative Facebook surgery, but what [...]
