Still observing the UK Election from the Web angle. J’accuse brings you another possible tool – direct Q&A with the leaders. Of course this entails meeting the leaders of the political parties and that means that they have to accept answering questions but just look at what the...

In the time it takes to consume a heavy, unhealthy lunch at the canteen (should I say restaurant) at the ECJ we get sufficient proof of the value of Web 2.0 in internet elections. Gordon Brown was caught off guard this morning after an exchange with a Labour voter. Having shielded her...

An interesting article by Iain Dale in the online Telegraph queries whether the UK is really having an “internet election”. Dale comments that: This was supposed to be the election when internet politics came of age, when the blogosphere and social media sites such as Twitter and...

So the government has rejected the request for shops to open on Workers’ Day. Spokespersons for the ministry of finance said that circumstances were not extraordinary such as to warrant allowing shops to stay open. I’m missing something here. What is the principle behind whether or...

I received a link to an interesting blogpost about the role of Election Videos (online) at election time in the UK (see it here at Putneydebater). There is no doubt that online videos will have an important role in the next election in Malta. Most of them will turn viral and there will be a...