Abdul,
What you appear to have is a precious resource - time, energy, and enthusiasm.
Here is what I'd like to encourage you to do.
1. Learn how to edit this simple wiki page and gather as many links to
mostly national-level election related websites and put them here:
http://pages.e-democracy.org/UK_elections
2. As you add new links, simply tweet "Added XYZ site to
http://bit.ly/9Bz3FG under ABC category #ukelection"
3. Let the sites you add to the directory know you've added them if
you can find an easy way to contact them.
4. After adding/updating (there are a lot of links from 2005 that need
to be removed/updated) say 25 links, then join and start posting the
link to Facebook Pages/Groups about the election, register and join
various UK political discussion forum sites and post carefully as
well, etc. With Facebook you have to customize your posts to each
group or they might think you are spammer when what you really are is
a democratically spirited organizer.
Why do all this?
1. Google doesn't take you to the new stuff.
2. The established media brands will garner most of the election
information related traffic and the dozens of creative upstarts will
receive only a fraction of the attention ... unless they break through
in terms of awareness. The wiki directory is actually more of a
listing that will inform the "linkers" be they media-based bloggers or
others about new and interesting sites to check out and then promote
to the masses. (The big sites probably won't link to the directory
because they like being gatekeepers, but they are happy to grab
organized links from anywhere to add into their own sites.)
Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Abdul Hai <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that a similar site is a good idea but I don't have the technical
> know how.
>
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> ________________________________
> From: Dave Cross <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, 14 April, 2010 13:40:45
> Subject: Re: [mySociety:public] General Election Feed Aggregator
>
> On 04/14/2010 10:55 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:12:14AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
>>>
>>> I've built a web site that aggregates all of the web feeds I can find
>>> that are created by General Election candidates in my constituency
>>> (Battersea).
>>
>>> The site is at http://ge2010.battersea-mp.org.uk/
>>
>> Nice knock-up. That there's nothing about the candidate, apart from
>> the feeds, might help break the whole party stuff.
>
> Yeah. That's definitely on my list. I'll probably add that this evening.
>
>>> If anyone would like to build a similar site for other constituencies
>>> then I'd be happy to help in any way that I can. Perhaps we could create
>>> a directory of such sites or something like that.
>>
>> There's the Panopticon, too:
>> http://panopticon.mysociety.org/
>>
>> and
>>
>> https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/dir?d=mysociety/panopticon
>
> Thanks. I'll take a look at those and see if there's any synergy.
>
>> As with all these things, I guess finding the right search terms is
>> one of the pesky aspects.
>
> Well, I'm just looking for "official" web feeds. So I'm using stuff
> that's linked to from their web sites. Of course, in some cases evenin
> finding their web site is a bit of a trial.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave...
>
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