24 hour Twitterthons Are Great But…….

….. What would @JackBauer do? You hear the word Twitterthon and you almost want Noel Edmonds, Dave Lee (Hairy Cornflake) Travis et-al to come bounding out in Christmas jumpers, with comedy mobile phones for 24 hours of furious tweeting induced RSI. But alas no, today it is @tamesidecouncil who are tweeting about the calls they [...]

Does Local Government Really Want Transparency?

I’m just back from speaking at the Polis Journalism Conference in London yesterday. I sat on a panel talking about DIY Media Democracy, which is one of the areas I specialise in and I strongly believe that more people need to engage with the democratic processes at a local level. While we were sitting in LSE [...]

#Twicket

Take a village in rural Lancaster, a village that happens to have a 30mbps symmetrical broadband connection, a village cricket match & throw in the micro blogging, social networking site (or whatever the media call it this week) Twitter and you get #Twicket. The idea was simple, get a group of people together to show [...]