Apologies for the very light posting here in recent weeks. When you blog about politics and elections a lot, you probably have the excuse that you are doing rather than blogging during elections, and this is true of some of our contributors. In my case, a tide of work that was only indirectly related to the election hit me about five weeks ago and I’ve been drowning in it ever since.
We have a plan to crank up the volume here, and you’ll hear more about it shortly. But filling our recent silence has been an unprecedented volume of quite excellent blogging on the subject of the election and the constitutional issues that arose from the inconclusive (by UK standards) election result. The 2010 Election Blog has been very good, and I hope the continue it – if they’re looking for a longer-term home for it, modesty forbids me from mentioning the perfect blog for them to do this on.
On the longer finger, Peter Levine has offered this collection of posts that I’m linking to in the right order with his subheadings.
- Creating informed communities (part one)
- Strategy 1: A Civic Information Corps: Using the nation’s “service” infrastructure to generate knowledge
- Creating informed communities (part two)
- Strategy 2: Universities as Community Information Hubs
- Creating informed communities (part three)
- Strategy 3: Invest in Face-to-Face Public Deliberation
- Creating informed communities (part four)
- Strategy 4: Generate Public “Relational” Knowledge
- Creating informed communities (part five)
- Strategy 5: Organize People to Defend the Knowledge Commons
Stay tuned. We’ll be back to our usual posting-rate shortly.
