Politics

Moi? Well, JC thinks so. I’ll see if I can redeem myself over the next few days. Updates to follow… .. .

Developed by Big New World for the Labour Party, Web-in-a-Box (WiaB) is a website-building tool for the Labour Party family. “You don’t need any specialist programming knowledge to edit the site - just basic word processing skills.” So, is it a bit like using Blogspot/MT then? Here’s an example of what it produces…So a LOT like blogspot then…. But it’s NOT! It’s the same old, tired, static, centralised, plug-and-produce website that stifles any sort of discussion or relationship with an MP....

Blog for your MP Make your blog part of the solution, not part of the problem. This bit is important. Your already poking enough fun by running a blog on their behalf, riding google rankings and racking up page views when their site should be getting the traffic. And if you have some real deep-seated hatred for your MP, perhaps you ought to reconsider your motives for doing this. Part of the solution....

Following on from the Hansard Society report into UK Political Weblogs (PDF report here), the Guardian keeps the spotlight on this area with this story, basically encouraging MPs to get blogging. There has been much said on this topic in blogsphere of late. And with good reason. So I’m not going to repeat it here. But I would like to highlight a few bits of the Guardian article. “Although the public might think otherwise, a lot of MPs do not have a great deal of money,” explains Ferguson....

Use the neat A-Z of Parliment from the BBC. TWFY.com also have a great glossary