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Politics And Twitter

Posted by Gez Smith on Jan 27 2010 | Conversations, Debate, Democracy and government, Engagement, Good examples, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

Interesting report out from Tweetminster the other day about the amount of politicians and political parties using Twitter at the moment, which hopefully adds a bit of context to the whole 'This will be an internet' election meme around at the moment. More interesting in many ways though is the response to it from the political chattering types, and Tweetminster's response to that. Lots of useful stuff… read more

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‘Spooks’ and the fear of online participation

Posted by Ben on Nov 23 2009 | Bad examples, Democracy and government, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

Anyone else catch this (the episode and the drift)?  I watched the latest episode of Spooks over the weekend (and enjoyed it, so what?) and, part-way through, realised that it was actually a dramatisation of what's going on in the heads of those risk-averse types who see in online participation cause for terror and dread and disruption, rather than opportunity and progress and value. I don't want to give the… read more

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Twitter – Data Vs Copy

Posted by Gez Smith on Oct 19 2009 | Bad examples, Conversations, Democracy and government, Engagement, Good examples, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

Before the article, a brief synopsis of it for the tech savvy 

 

"TL:DR? gez @delibconsults wants tweet txt kept simple #web2.0"

 

Now actual words for real people. … read more

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Trafigura And The Guardian – Never Forget Who You Are

Posted by Gez Smith on Oct 13 2009 | Bad examples, Democracy and government, Engagement, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

IMG_0727 I'm in the London office today, and just took a photo of this postcard on the wall, thinking it would fit with a blog post at some point. Then it suddenly struck me, today's main internet news in this part of the world fits it perfectly.  You can read more about it elsewhere, but in essence, a gagging order was… read more

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Six Pieces about Sentiment Analysis

Posted by Andy on Sep 22 2009 | Advice, Opinion research, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

I've been researching sentiment analysis, and I think I've found pieces to suit a range of tastes and interests.

Tasters

First the notes from a 2008 talk given by Lillan Lee from Cornell University. Lee's topic is "...the flood of interest in: sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and the computational treatment of subjective language."

This is a good 'who, what, why, how', featuring:

  • - background
  • - useful stats
  • - an exploration of the broader implications
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Brum vs Utah

Posted by Ben on Sep 08 2009 | Good examples, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

OK, so the whole of the digital government Twitterati has come out of the woodwork to 'have their say' on what a bad job Capita have done of the new Birmingham Council website, how it's outrageous that it cost £2.8m, how they all would've done it better using WordPress/Drupal/paper and sellotape/whatever is their consultancy specialised weapon of choice blah blah blah.  Mostly, I'm not interested in their griping and… read more

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Obama’s democracy 2.0

Posted by ChrisQ on Sep 08 2009 | Delib news and events, Democracy and government, Good examples, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

In the context of Senator Obama's radical and successful use of the internet to win the Presidency, commentators wildly speculated about how President Obama would then use the internet to govern.  Having amassed 1 million+ followers, would he run the first ever Twit-ocracy and use Twitter to solve his country's problems?  Would he run an enlarged collaborative People's Cabinet via Facebook? Months into President Obama's period of governance, we… read more

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Seven August things to help you convert the skeptics

Posted by Ben on Sep 03 2009 | Democracy and government, Engagement, Participation, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

Chances are, if you're reading this, you're already somewhat sold on the whole idea of the internet and the opportunities it presents for better involving people in decision-making/governance – and that means you almost certainly know and are frustrated by someone who, for whatever reason, doesn't 'get it'. If that's the case, here's a few things from this month that might help change their mind: 1. Seattle suggests correlation between
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How Teenagers Use The Internet

Posted by Gez Smith on Jul 14 2009 | Advice, Engagement, Good examples, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

Odd one this, Morgan Stanley recently took on a 15 year old intern named Matthew Robson, and asked him to write them a briefing paper on how teenagers use different media. It's 'shaken the city' apparently, a location you would have thought would have been reasonably difficult to surprise by now given recent economic events, but no matter. In a nutshell, he reported that teenagers don't listen to the… read more

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Internet debate round-up

Posted by Ben on Jul 01 2009 | Debate, Delib news and events, Democracy and government, Participation, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

So you may have noticed that we were running this debate last night, 'the internet: the saviour or corruptor of democracy?', (with the help of the Henry Jackson Society, sponsored by MessageSpace and very graciously hosted in Parliament by Danny Alexander MP). Our pretty prestigious panel comprised Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes blog), Peter Kellner (YouGov), Michael White (Associate Editor, the Guardian), Grant Shapps MP (Shadow Minister for Housing)… read more

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