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.
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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).
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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)« David Lepper (Proxy Blog) | Main | Michael Clapham (Proxy Blog) » August 4, 2004 Keith Vaz (Proxy Blog)Labour MP for Leicester East, former Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office Proxy blog by: Frances Launched: August 04, 2004 Format: Blogger.com (standard template) Comments: Yes This website has maintained the top search result in Google and Yahoo for 'keith vaz' for well over 8 months now. This has a lot to do with it being a comprehensive blog with regular posts. It's well worth reading, and keeps track of the man's movements with a firm but fair hand. The proxy author also set up a dedicated website for the 2005 General Election and now plans to use this as a base for promoting political blogging in Leicester. Keith Vaz has since responded by setting up camp at http://www.keithvaz.labour.co.uk/ and including blog-like features such as sequential entries - but nothing approaching two-way communication. And with his colourful past, who can blame him? It is not wise to open the floor for questions when everybody is sure to ask the same question. Message to all MPs with dodgy pasts: If you wish to keep your head down, no-one will blame you for doing so. Stick to writing crappy novels, like this fellow does. Posted by timireland on August 4, 2004 1:51 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.) |