As local newspapers retreat from providing anything like a good quality of news coverage, local authorities are wondering what their response should be. On the one hand, there’s the model that Birmingham City Council have taken – providing a much more user-friendly information gateway that is designed to provide resources to citizen-journalists and bloggers. Other [...]
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Announcing picamp Belfast
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be promoting and working on ‘picamp’ – the political innovation camp event in Belfast on the 26th of May. This project is being done in conjunction with the Northern Ireland political weblog Slugger O’Toole, with NESTA-sponsored Amplified ’09 and Queens University Belfast who have kindly allowed us [...]
Slugger welcomes David Cameron to Northern Ireland
UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron is visiting Northern Ireland this weekend to speak at an Ulster Unionist Party conference. Slugger O’Toole has been crowdsourcing questions for him, and he’s agreed to answer them. The site’s managers are also encouraging Twitterers to post to a widget on the site. The widget can be seen on [...]