TV debates heavily previewed this evening. Will dominate news into Sunday. Will take up huge chunks of media coverage for rest of campaign.
Google UK general election trends page: http://bit.ly/a82GsE
Immigration not highly salient according to these Google data?: http://bit.ly/b5DS8r #ge10 #ukelection
It’s the mutual dependency between “old” and “new” media that’s driving this election. One of the big themes of the new book I’m working on
RT @markpack: I worry that Alastair Stewart’s paragraphs are not long enough http://bit.ly/b80WJd
Just finished being interviewed by a reporter from The Asahi Shimbun (Japan) about the media and the election.
Vince Cable’s recent talk at Royal Holloway’s Centre for European Politics: audio now available: http://bit.ly/bSHReY
Two junior posts advertised in my Department at Royal Holloway: http://bit.ly/9o1ClJ Please RT
Partying like it’s 1999 as Labour’s website buckles under the strain of demand for the manifesto
I should add that my saying “partying like it’s 1999” was supposed to be a joke about how many websites used to fall over in the old days
Watch Labour’s animated manifesto film now and then share it:The Labour Party Manifesto 2010: http://tinyurl.com/y7xjxq2
John Harris: http://bit.ly/aJ3G82 <- As-it-happens election reportage doesn’t get much better than this imho.
Why arguing open-source is ‘better tech’/’generative’ is ill-advised http://nyti.ms/aYcb3H (via @berrydm)
RT @markpack: What’s uniform national swing and is it any use as a predictor? http://bit.ly/ahvpFE #GE2010
The Sun also appears to have abandoned its election liveblog or “rolling campaign news” as they called it.