May 27, 2010
While plenty of people were shouting about how 2010 would see the first social media election, I wasn’t so sure. A more locally-focused general election seemed on the cards from where I sat (not surprising though as ‘local’ is kinda my thing now). The Orange Digital Campaigning Awards are supposed to pick out those good [...]
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April 30, 2010
Democracy Club is a volunteer-driven website for crowdsourcing democratic data which is otherwise hard to find. Yesterday, with TheyWorkForYou, we launched the UK’s first-ever survey of candidates. Voters can type in their postcode and compare candidates’ opinions, and are also helping gently pester candidates who’ve not answered. We’re really pleased with the results: answers in [...]
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Whatever you think hyperlocal is, you’re wrong
June 18, 2010…but you’re probably right as well. Today a lot of people have been commenting on a blog post by David Ottewell at the Manchester Evening News about hyperlocal. In it, David says, There is a lot of talk these days about ‘hyperlocal’ sites. The idea is that journalists working in a small community can cover [...]