March 2009
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The Foreign Office's Digital Diplomacy Initiative
Last week, the UK Foreign Office held a Digital Diplomacy event. Chaired by the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones and promoted by Weber Shandwick, the event was designed as a showcase for the recent intensification of social media initiatives at the FCO. These come under the heading of “Bringing Foreign Policy Home.”
Cellan-Jones has a typically funny post about the event.
While...
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“Sad, but true. All my archives from 1999-2004, prior to when I turned off...”
– Caterine Fake. I’m sorry to say I agree with this approach. It makes sense.
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“92,934 people have submitted 104,060 questions and cast 3,605,265 votes”
– http://www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions/
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When web 2.0 goes bad: Furl and Diigo
Last week the social bookmarking site Furl.net announced that it had been taken over by rival Diigo and was to discontinue its service. Users were offered what sounded like a painless transition to Diigo. But it soon became obvious that Diigo was not equipped to handle the volume of transfers. There were also one or two bugs and inconsistencies involved in transferring the Furl metadata, and...
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"The Change We Need" - context
The Change We Need has rightly sparked off a huge debate, and it’s an important one, not only for Labour, but for all British political parties.
Part of the analytical context here can be found in this article that Nick Anstead and I published in the summer of 2008:
Anstead, N. and Chadwick, A. (2008) ‘Parties, Election Campaigning and the Internet: Toward A Comparative Institutional...
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"The Change We Need" book launch
New Political Communication Unit PhD student and UEA politics lecturer Nick Anstead today publishes The Change We Need: What Britain Can Learn from Obama’s Victory, a Fabian Society book co-edited with Will Straw and featuring a Foreword by Gordon Brown.
Links:
Book website
Launch event in central London with Alastair Campbell (sold out)
Liveblog from the launch
Video from the launch...
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Guardian 1000 Songs Everyone Should Hear - Spotify...
The Guardian has a new series: 1000 Songs Everyone Should Hear. It starts today with Part One: “Love.” (Note: The URL proudly emblazoned on today’s dead-tree Saturday supplement is incorrect; the page is here).
They’ve generously provided links to individual tracks on Spotify. There’s no shared playlist, but I easily created this (in Safari on the Mac at any rate) by...
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Working Together →
Report. Power of Information ideas start to make their way into policy. “eBay-style” rating of public services. Story in the Telegraph here.
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"Social networks now more popular than email" →
New Nielson report here.
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Transforming Global Information and Communication... →
“Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets is a new book that addresses innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) and how it fuels the growth of the global economy.
Authors Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan D. Aronson analyze changes in ICT markets, examine case studies, and consider principles and norms for future global policies.”
MIT Press, but also...
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Mediated Citizenship: Political Information and... →
Conference at ICS, Leeds.
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“As JP and I walked towards the underground station at the end, he couldn’t...”
– Alastair Campbell on John Prescott.
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Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and... →
“a multi-disciplinary research center intent on understanding and transforming community interactions. Our focus is on harnessing the power of novel technologies to support the needs of real and virtual communities and social networks. CASCI is physically located at the iSchool at Maryland, but includes members from across the University of Maryland from a variety of disciplines.”
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“There is no evidence…”
– … That the internet changes your brain. But she thought she’d just say it anyway…
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WatchPhotos of the Progress/Blue State Digital Labour 2.0 conference, February 28, 2009, courtesy of bitospud.