Mark Pack

If you are, then the hashtag people are using again looks to be #ldconf And if you're wondering what a hashtag is... it's just a bit of text that everyone talking about a particular event uses. If we all use the same tag, it means you can easily search and find what other people are saying [...] »

Changes in position and score are since February’s figures, and the same caveats apply as before to these numbers from TweetLevel (i.e. Twitter isn’t the only thing in the world, and this isn’t the only way of measuring people’s influence on / use of Twitter): 1. (nc) nick_clegg 55 (-4) 2. (nc) joswinson 52 (nc) 3. (+3)  SandraGidley [...] »

I'm struggling to work out why you'd want to do this, but a follow-up to my post about the unusual email sign up options offered by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Not only, as I pointed out, does it offer you the chance to sign up to emails from the US Environmental Protection Agency, [...] »

The Hansard Society has a new report out which asks the public what they want out of politicians and the political system online. Although many studies have looked at what politicians do or don’t do online, those looking at what the public actually wants are rather rarer. That makes this a particularly welcome report and is [...] »

Go to the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Click on "Email updates" on the right. You get stepped through an email sign-up process which is generally pretty good, even if the list of options for different sources of news from DECC is rather long - and it is a bit surprising to be offered email updates [...] »

That's the headline on a BBC report today, which also features myself: Former Liberal Democrat web chief Mark Pack believes the internet will spell the end of indentikit candidates, all repeating the same election message crafted for them by party HQ. "It will encourage individuality and creativity," he says. He even argues that round-the-clock scrutiny by camera-phone wielding [...] »

Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: Google has just launched a new social networking service and unsurprisingly the blogs are, ahem, buzzing with discussion. If you've not yet seen it yourself, this video is an excellent quick introduction: Based on what has been seen so far, it looks like Google Buzz's biggest strength will also be its biggest [...] »

Not a good end to the week for Vodafone with the following message sent out on their official @VodafoneUK account: VodafoneUK is fed up of dirty homo's and is going after beaver In response though Vodafone have not tried to dodge around the issue and are responding to numerous people, saying: We're very sorry. A severe breach of [...] »

Although as I’ve said before I’m very sceptical of lists which rate users of Twitter by the number of followers they have, there is some merit in some of the more complex Twitter rating schemes. A good example of these is TweetLevel which, as you can see from the details on its site, includes factors [...] »

Well well well, this is a bit of a rum turn of events in Cornwall. Councillors send tweets during council meeting. Western Morning News runs a story about this, taking a few potshots and quoting The Taxpayers’ Alliance slamming the councillors for this behaviour. One of the councillors then points out that someone from the TPA was actually sending [...] »