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The Europe roundup: Make it short. Sort of.

Antonella Napolitano | February 18, 2010 - 2:23pm | Email This!
  • U.K. | What kind of campaign will Britain see?
    On the Guardian Kevin Anderson reflects on how (and if) British political operatives and activists will adapt Obama's strategies in this campaign: "If Facebook is good at organising groups, are there constituencies where issue-oriented organising might play a role in the outcome of an election? If the debates are the real innovation in this election, what role will the Twitter "spin room" play in public opinion?".
    Guido Fawkes, one of the top political conservative bloggers, leaves the first comment: "TV is king". What if?
  • Italy | Learning how to tweet in Italian
    La Democrazia is a newlyborn Italian political website, focusing mostly on how Italian politicians are using Twitter. In Italy Facebook is considered the next best thing but Twitter is also gaining a lot of attention. The website offers a pretty much unique service, providing regular monitoring and analysis of political twitterers, engaging in online conversation and also giving advices to political leaders to improve! Of course... they use Twitter a lot!
  • U.K. | Airbrushing has never been so easy
    The Conservative party launches the “I've never voted Tory” poster campaign, featuring three people who will be voting Conservative for the first time at the next election. But it didn't take too long to some Labour activists to airbrush this posters too (they did the same a few weeks ago with David Cameron's posters campaign). Also, the #ivenevervotedtory hashtag has been taken over by sarcastic Labour voters.
    A failure? Well, airbrushing was so predictable – suggests the Guardian – that maybe Conservatives had been expected it when they launched the campaign: “The upside for Cameron and co is a massive free media blitz every time they release a new poster. And at the most basic level all the mockery probably helps the simple messages the Conservatives want to express – we have a fairly normal-looking leader at last, we actively want different types of people to support us – to lodge themselves in the public mind.”
    Let the opponents do the viral for you?
  • EU | Haiku news for the European Parliament
    The EP web editors analyze the news experiment by a group of journalists who isolated themselves from the world’s traditional media (no radio, television or newspapers) and “produced” news having as unique sources of information “haiku” texts (a form of short Japanese poetry) on Facebook and Twitter. The results are pretty interesting. What about a regular feature?
  • EU | A Wikipedia resumè?
    On Twitter, Andreas Müllerleile (from Kosmopolito, also a fellow speaker at PDF Europe conference) asks if is it really a good idea that the official CV website of a European Commissioner links to wikipedia.

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