The Political Weblog Project is a collaborative effort designed to encourage MPs, Councillors and other elected officials to communicate more effectively online via the intelligent use of weblogs. Elected officials who wish to take part in this scheme must follow these simple rules that exist primarily for your own benefit:Rule #1 - You must own (or be ready to purchase) your own domain name.
Rule #2 - You must use the technology to engage in two-way commmunication
Rule #3 - You must fund/source the weblog with your own money or resources.
Those who pledge to follow these rules will be provided with all the necessary assets and expertise at an extremely competitive rate.
What is a weblog? | Why two-way communication? | Why do I need my own domain?
More politicians need to be using weblogs properly. Maybe you can help.
PRIMARY NAVIGATION
Main Page
Starting and Running a Political Weblog
Information for Councillors
Information for Members of Parliament
Information for Cabinet Members
WEBLOG PACKAGES
(withdrawn)
CONTACT DETAILS
manic AT bloggerheads DOT com
If you click on any of the 'Blogs' categories below, you will find that these entries have been individually backdated to correspond with the launch date of the blog that entry references (in order to provide a categorised and sequential history of these blogs).
CATEGORIES
Blogs: All (31) Blogs: Campaign (2) Blogs: Councillors (Labour) (1) Blogs: House of Lords (1) Blogs: MPs (Conservative) (1) Blogs: MPs (Labour) (5) Blogs: MPs (Liberal Democrat) (2) Blogs: Proxies (20) Designers and Providers (4) Education and Seminars (2) Fighting Ignorance (6) General (1) News (2)« Jim Cousins (Proxy Blog) | Main | Frank Dobson (Proxy Blog) » July 2, 2004 Nick Raynsford (Proxy Blog)Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich Proxy blog by: James Launched: July 02, 2004 Format: Blogger.com (standard template) Comments: Yes Created as part of the proxy blog project and - whoops - it includes 'mp' in the resulting domain name. While updates to this proxy blog may have been sporadic, the author did take his target to task and almost succeeded. Nick Raynsford responded by launching a non-blog in November 2004. This is located at http://www.nickraynsfordmp.org/ (*Sigh*... 'mp' in the domain name. When will people learn?) It's progress of sorts. Before November 2004, Nick Raynsford didn't even have a website to call his own. Now he does (and it features such useful information as contact details and surgery dates), but if he thinks that a series of sequential entries without comments or trackback qualifies as a weblog, he is sorely mistaken. C'mon, Nick; you're *this* close... Posted by timireland on July 2, 2004 12:49 PM in the category Blogs: Proxies CommentsPost a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) |