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Post-match analysis: Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona
Conferences are like London buses. You go for ages without one showing up, then they all come along at once. Suffice it say that, thanks to an improbable number of internet/politics conferences in a very short period, I feel I am becoming something of a connaisseur of the genre.
New technologies: Keeping up without being killed in the attempt
Today is a big day in the life of the ep-webeditors blog. Nay, a rite of passage, a coming of age, an arrival in the sunlit uplands of Parliament bloggerdom. Today, our big boss, Jaume, Director and EP official spokesman, no less, appears for the first time on this blog. What’s more, he wants to talk about us!
Big worlds and small worlds
This is probably exactly the wrong place, indeed a self-contradictory place, to hint at heretically relativising thoughts, but being away far from Brussels for a few weeks has made me reflect on digital divides of various sorts.
User-generated cyber-trash
There’s a grey zone of cyberspace cluttered with petabytes of irrelevant publicly available private content. Is social media making us waste time and in reality become anti-social?
Now what?
The emerging consensus is that the campaign went well. Speaking parochially, we believe the online part of it particularly so. Of course, indulging in a feelgood factor for a while is fine, but the time is coming now for some serious evaluation. What worked, what didn’t, what did but wasn’t worth it…
Post-electoral depression
Nothing matters any more. The day-to-day work seems quite boring. What’s the aim of the articles we write, if not to increase the turnout in the elections?
Learning to cope with social media
So now it’s all over… Nearly six weeks with intensive online election campaigns. Last week nearly 162 million European voters went to the polls to elect their 736 representatives in the European Parliament. Even though the 43, 2 % turnout is the lowest ever, it was way better than most analyst had expected before the [...]
To be a digital non-citizen
“Svetla, what is a blog?” asked recently my mother in law. She is one of those who possess an always switched off mobile phone. She doesn’t write e-mails and uses the laptop for typing her own translations of French poetry. The fact that I work as an online editor makes me look in her eyes [...]
One third of webcomm unit still floating
Each member of our team will be voting since there is always time to vote. Here at the EP headquarters we will on election night be as much waiting for the results to know how the “camembert“ will be divided as we will be waiting for the turn-out figures. As an incentive for candidates to continue campaigning: one third [...]
Yikes! Suddenly we are doing all this stuff
Seems only yesterday… It’s not long since we were in the happy position of being the ones pushing for all kinds of trendy, new-fangled ideas against a hidebound establishment. This blog seemed like a distant mirage – it was just too far outside the comfort zone of the way European institutions do communication to be [...]
MEP internet superstar
Who’d have thought it possible? The internet’s most popular video was this week a recording of a three minute speech by a Conservative MEP. Yes, that’s a speech by an MEP… With 1.4 million views at the time of writing
Waiting for the New Year
We had several New Years already this year. In the beginning of January we celebrated the New Year we all know, in mid-January it was the orthodox New Year, at the end of January it was the Chinese New Year and last week – the Iranian one. However, there is still one to come – [...]
The Fifth Estate
Dipping a toe in academia today. Prof Dutton’s thesis is that contemporary society is seeing the emergence of a “Fifth Estate”, enabled by the internet and, to a lesser extent, other information and communications technology.
Downtown on the digital frontline (with Obama)
Today, I find myself in downtown Brussels in a hotel, surrounded by people without ties but all sporting the inevitable conference badges, where in a moment I am participating in a panel discussion entitled “What won it for Obama?”
The flood gates open
Call it the Obama Effect, call it the Tide of History, call it about time, but whatever it was it happened this week. A big week for the web team. We got the go ahead for a series of new enterprises we have been working on behind the scenes for a while now.
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