Where did they get the idea for this from?

The House to Home exhibition organised by the Hansard Society at Westminster Hall yeilded some interesting - although hardly suprising given voter turnout figures - feedback from its 45,000 visitors. More than 80% of respondents felt excluded by Westminster politics. I had a poke around the online version of the exhibition. From the site you can create your own banner and send it someone as an e-card. Here’s one from me....

August 15, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

Who’s got your attention?

Technocratic has crunched the weblogs once again and come up with a metric of authority or trust in online sources. So, just who are we - the online community - trusting for our news? The results are a wake-up call to the established media houses. This should worry quite a few people. Click here for source image Community edited news recycling sites rank among the traditional sources such as CNN and the BBC....

August 15, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

Didn’t we just do something about this?

Last week, Sarah was trumpeting the launch of the ‘Safer Neighbourhoods’ initiative in Kilburn ward. This week, she’s calling for action to tackle ticket touts in Kilburn ward. Surely any action taken would be taken as part of the Safer Neighbourhoods initiative. Having spoken last week about how the “…police are not allowed to get on with their job because of excessive paperwork”, Sarah now wants to devote police time to persuing the small-fry petty-crook - with all the paper chase that accompanies it....

August 12, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

I had to get this checked. Twice.

Are mine eyes deceiving me? Go to the home page of Labour Party in Sheperds Bush. It may be a crap URL - but it is the one linked to from the London Labour site “If you are interested in our neighbours in Hounslow, Ann Keen or Alan Keen have a look at www.hounslowlabour.org” Click the link…..(it should be SFW but it’s NSFW) I had to mail Tim. I wasn’t sure....

August 12, 2004 · 2 min · Rob Dyke

1000th unique page loads

At 01:26 this morning, sarah teather is my mp received its 1000th unique page load. from the statcounter logs… Users of the Parliament network can’t type. They keep on ending up at the blog after searching for a miss-spelling of ‘sarah teather is my mp’ Users who arrive at the site from search engine results have only used Google to search Those working late on the Brent Council Network had fun with the “Google ‘sarah teather’ find the blog game” on Tuesday

August 12, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke