Big conference

On Monday (14th) I will be attending the Social Media World Forum Europe conference, at London’s Olympia venue. It looks like quite a big do. I’m also going to appear on a couple of panels, one in the morning and…

Flaming for Obama

Lovely piece in Prospect this month from Peter Jukes, talking about the occasionally fractious community of Democrat bloggers in the US: For many in Britain, blogging, especially political blogging, is a bit of a disappointment. Many of our political sites…

Learning from Obama

One of the interesting topics to emerge from 2gether08, specifically the sessions on whether UK politics is ‘big enough’ for the web, and ‘egov to wegov‘, was where we stand on campaigning online, especially in comparison with the US. This…

Who’s left blogging?

Charlie Beckett writes entertainingly about the state of the presence of the political left in the UK blogosphere: The Online Socialists have various problems. No-one reads them. Guido Fawkes and his wicked Right-wing pals are far more entertaining and they…