links for 2013-10-11
“Brent Council will integrate Twitter with the live streaming of council meetings, as part of Local Democracy Week 2013. The council will be the first local authority in London to enable people watching the webcasts to tweet messages to the council. Councillors at the meeting will be able to reply to messages live in a Question Time-style evening on 14 October.”
Superb work over in Brent, and a reminder that #localgov needs to take the message out to the masses, rather than wait for a response from residents.
Note the trust in allowing Cllr’s to conduct a meeting and tweet at the same time. *some* local authorities don’t seem to credit Cllr’s with the multi-tasking skills to contribute to a meeting and simultaneously tweet. Which leads to the old top-down structure of #localgov with layer upon layer of hierarchies, and little public engagement [URGH].
Meanwhile, any attempt at hyperlocal transparency further down the food chain is still being brushed aside with a medieval battering ram of:
“It’s not in our Standing Orders.”
No wonder there is so little faith in a closed talking shop, percevied to be in place to perpetuate civic social standings, rather than offer solutions.
Catch up, Comrades.
“In future, our print product will derive from the web offering – not vice versa. FT journalism must adapt further to a world where reporters and commentators converse with readers.”
No such old school Establishment layers in the um, FT.
A brave move in going Back to the Future with a single print edition, and one that purposeltfully relegates the power of print as only a secondary concern when it comes to the modern interweb.
The FT is Dead, Long Live the FT, etc. This isn’t so much as a changing business model, but the building of a new business. You almost get the impression that the Dead Tree Media is something of a thorn in the side for the digital disruptors that want to dive straight in.
The gatekeepers have gone (sort of) and the users are shaping the content. ACE that the old publishing barriers have been broken in what was once the bastion of The Establishment.
SHIT, FUCK, WANK, BOLLOCKS, D***Y
Shout yer nuts off at the House of Pain, Borough High Street, as part of the Merge Festival, 2013.
via @tiredoflondon.
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