19 January 2010 – 2:25 PM
There are currently 7771 members of the Facebook group “NoBonus4RBS“, started by Billy Bragg.
Let’s watch it fly and fly.
RATM wasn’t the first successful Facebook group-based campaign (see HSBC’s student overdraft charges, for instance). But I think it is a good model to emulate.
As I said here about song-based campaigns, negative campaigns can work (by that [...]
13 January 2010 – 9:00 PM
Sometimes I feel as if I’m always playing catch-up.
This book “A Useful Fiction“, which came out last year, has just brought me reasonably up-to-date with devolution of the United Kingdom, particularly some of the finer details which I’d missed.
It has many good insights into the idea of Britain and its democracy, or rather democracies. The [...]
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Tagged A Useful Fiction, britain, democracy, devolution, Gordon Brown, Northern Ireland, Patrick Hannan, Scotland, Tony Blair, wales
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11 January 2010 – 10:19 PM
I have two predictions for 2010.
Prediction one is that we will see lots of online campaigns around songs, inspired by Rage Against The Machines’s chart success in 2009. It will be easy to be dismissive and call these “copycat” campaigns but the idea of mobilising large groups of fans via social media is a seductive [...]
9 December 2009 – 1:06 PM
Remember the recent All Wales Convention? Yesterday they sent me this message via Facebook:
Diolch am ymaelodi a’r Grwp hwn. Gan fod yr Adroddiad wedi ei gyhoeddi bellach, rydym wedi cadw cofnod o gynnwys y Grwp Gweplyfr a’i ddirwyn i ben.
Thanks for joining the Group. Since the Report has now been published, we have kept a [...]
11 November 2009 – 12:14 PM
I went to a public meeting at the Assembly buildings in Cardiff last night, which was a chance to meet Wales’ new Cross-Party Digital Group and have a discussion to answer the question:
“How can we make better use of new media and digital technology to engage with the people of Wales?”.
The members of the group [...]
By Carl Morris
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Tagged blog, broadband, data, digitalwales, engagement, facebook, open, openness, politics, posterous, wales, wiki
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11 November 2009 – 10:45 AM
I’m going to be writing more about politics on this blog.
My interest is how politics might relate to technology, business and “ordinary” people in the UK – with a particular emphasis on Wales.
As a personal rule I try and stay away from the various personalities and day-to-day machinations, allegiances, squabblings, who wore what clothes and [...]
Below is some full background to this, but in summary TheyWorkForYou are looking for volunteer coders interested in working on Welsh Assembly data. If that’s you, please join the new discussion list and let’s figure out how to do it.
If you don’t know TheyWorkForYou then take some time to familiarise yourself. It’s a well established [...]
I’m thinking about our obsession with “open”.
People work in “open plan” offices. If not then maybe their manager has an “open door policy” and offers an “open mind”. Maybe they conduct negotiations with “open palm”.
Then there’s open source software, now pretty familiar and widely used. Of which OpenOffice is an example (as well as Firefox). [...]
Language is important.
Recently I found George Orwell’s seminal essay Politics and the English Language online, originally written in 1946. I’d heard of it before but never thought to track it down.
Here’s some of the intro:
Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due [...]
