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....
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....
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....
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
On Friday 6th August, Sarah announced that she was to conduct her own ‘Big Conversation’ consultation with the residents of Brent East. “Too many politicians think they know what’s best, without taking the time to listen to local people. I hope that Brent residents take the time to fill in the survey so that I can take up their issues both with the local Council as well as taking them up in Parliament....