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.
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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)« Moving forward | Main | Pricing I » August 25, 2005 Mark Pritchard punks outThe Mark Pritchard Proxy Blog brings to our attention the new and fabulous and not-at-all blog-like website for Conservative MP Mark Pritchard (located at www.markpritchard.com) Mark Pritchard is, of course, rightly famous for publishing the most inactive weblog of all time (and when I says 'of all time', I means of ALL time). The author of the Mark Pritchard proxy-blog has quite rightly asked why this MP continually fails to communicate with his constituents. He also asks this question of his MP: Why didn't you use a local company to do your work? Allow me to field that one... The design company behind this website is Butter Mountain. They have also developed sites for the following people: Tariq Ahmad - Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Croydon North (Is anyone else detecting a pattern here?) Nick Hurd - Conservative Member of Parliament for Ruislip-Northwood OK, enough snarking... Two of these websites provide a glimmer of hope. Both David Gauke and Michael Gove are running pseudo-blogs (i.e. blogs used as content-management devices with no two-way communication)... so they're *almost* understand there. Almost. I'll be in touch with these two chaps once we have the troops and packages in order. If it's permitted, we may even be able to plug our expertise into the inner workings of Butter Mountain. I've said it before, and I'll say it again; it doesn't matter who builds these things... all that really matters is that they get built correctly used properly. But I wouldn't hold any great hope of Mark Pritchard coming online and communicating properly... this is a man who held his first surgery 106 days after the election. Posted by timireland on August 25, 2005 3:18 PM in the category Fighting Ignorance 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.) |