Yesterday I was at the Future e-Democracy 09 conference on a panel talking about "Digital campaigning post-Obama" along with Sam Coates (from MyConservatives.com) and Sue MacMillan (Labour's Head of New Media) and chaired by the Hansard Society's Andy...

After just over a year of writing a fortnightly Gearbox column over on the Wardman Wire, it's time to bring the series to a close. With too many other demands on my writing time, I'm quitting whilst I'm ahead (i.e. before it becomes late and irregular)...

For the record, the last episode of The Thick of It didn't in any way bring back any memories of a radio interview with a Liberal Democrat candidate where I was frantically passing him handwritten  notes. Not at all. No memory of that whatsoever. Hope...

Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: What does and should the digital future hold for Britain? Those were the issues addressed by Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and others, including Mandate's Sacha Deshmukh, at an event last week...

Martin Belam is one of those who has picked up on the story about the number of people contributing to Wikipedia falling away. He makes the reasonable comment: Not entirely convinced by this argument. Yes edit wars and holier-than-thou editors on...