A number of the more perceptive readers at ToK blog have noticed that I have seemed to have dropped off the perch during the last fortnight. The good news is that I am still live and kicking and a...
This research position would be very interesting: Research Assistant positions with The Cooperation Research Group: Case Studies in Commons-Based Peer Production Project Description: What makes W...
Another excellent article on Obama's Online Outreach group to make you drool, this time from WaPo. Highlights: A year and a half ago, Rospars led a group of 11. It's easily double that now, with s...
Doorstops with Peter Costello are becoming more and more like conversations with the Cheshire Cat: Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter?...
Gary Langer, (US) ABC News polling guru has interesting things to say about Presidential Nomination Convention polling bounces: Convention bounces became apparent in 1968 (election polling was too...
Making the greatest foreign policy mistake in the last thirty years would have this effect I guess: THE Coalition lost its traditional position as the party of choice on defence and security last y...
Those looking for a more considered political response to the Russo-Georgian conflict than John McCain's bellicose rhetoric need look no further than UK Foreign Minister, David Miliband's Op-Ed in ...
A Tip/Wag for the BBC's new linking policy. A tip of the hat for the fact that the BBC will be introducing a form of in text linking and will be providing readers with links to background material ...
If there's one thing we've learnt from the past 8 years, it's that dumb candidates make bad Presidents. Which means people should be worried about this (via Scatterplot): That John McCain graduated...
10 Downing St responds to an online petition in favour of making Jeremy Clarkson Prime Minister, signed by cira 50,000 people via YouTube: [youtube cNy1w4DV5Hw linktext] Not exactly knee-slapping f...
Larry Lessig lays the smack down on the loooong overdue McCain tech policy: [youtube uvohYMgp0oo linktext]
The doyen of independent US media survey research, The Pew Institute has released its latest biennial report on news consumption. This is a first impressions post at this point, but the first and...
This: Is how I envisaged PolicyWikiShop being structured. HT: (the excellent Infosthetics)
A good (read 'constructive') critique of the UK Govt's Power of Information agenda here: While there is no doubting that Tom Steinberg and Ed Mayo's original PoI review was a significant and game c...
The Third Phase of the Hansard Society's Digital Dialogues Report (a review of the UK Government's online engagement experiences) should be required reading for anyone for anyone interested in gove...
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