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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
OK, so it might have been like tossing a canary into a cat’s home – with clipped wings, and a fish in its beak - but there was something about the deluge of abuse that former UK Home Secretary David Blunkett received in a Guardian newspaper ‘Comment is Free (CiF) ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
When I was growing up in New England my mother used to use Emily Post's finishing school in Connecticutt as a barometer for 'good manners.' Think of what 'Miss Manners' would say - or some such refrain - would inevitably meet my teenage breach of New England social protocol. Now all ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Twitter and Microblogging in general is all the rage right now and there have been several examples of politicians and parties using this tool. Even though Microblogging is very simple (both in use and technology) its concepts have to be understood to know which values it is offering. The Online ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
How can we be sure that the online discussion will not be biased or manipulated by certain interest groups?
Online discourses mirror the world as it is and should not be misunderstood as an ideal or protected room where only the Habermasian “forceless force of the better argument” counts. Participants are ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
As most readers of this blog will know, the European elections this year are in early June (precise dates vary from country to country: the UK and the Netherlands is voting on 4 June but most if not all the other nations on 7 June).
Fraser’s post about the ‘bug’ campaign ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Writing letters to elected representatives has always been one of the more effective ways for citizens to state their concern for a political question or to make their opinion clear to “their” member of parliament. This seems perfectly reasonable: If hundreds or even thousands members of the constituency write to ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Residents in Örebro city can right now speak up on how they want one of the city’s square to be designed. For a time, there have been efforts to change the city center and now the work has come to improve the square. To find out what people think, there ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Google has recently announced the suspension of a number of its services, notably Google Video, in a recent move to de-clutter and streamline during the current economic crisis. Included among the upcoming closures are: Google Notebooks, Google Catalogs, Dodgeball, Google Mashup Editor, and future ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Well, the economic background is very bad for this year, as I am not the first to point out, and this will inevitably make this year tough going for many of us in the e-democracy community. Those of us in the private sector will have to tighten our belts, and ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Are online forums dominated by techies and geeks and, if so, does this deter wider citizen participation?
The European Citizens' Consultation 2009 (ECC09) might provide an interesting case study. ECC09 is an ambitious project which is seeking the views of the citizens of Europe on the economic and ...
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