Spinning the Web

I was to the 'Spinning the Web' event on Tuesday 5 July. A very large audience, one mad activist, good chair [though they should be endowed with electric baton to dissuade mad acticists] and a few interesting papers I thought.

[oh, and I was the one pressing the arrow key during Steve's presentation]

There are various accounts of what happened on the night, from Lynne Featherstone MP, Bill Thompson [ paper notes] [presentation] [voxpolitics post], Robin Grant, the BBC online,

Being in such good company, I'll be excused if I don't give my own account. But you can read Steve Ward and yours truly's contribution to the report, if you are interested [PDF]:

Logging On or Switching Off? The Public and the Internet at the 2005 General Election

Data, data and more data

Make sure you read the full report, available from the Hansard Society website.