Comments on: The Conservatives’ ‘Honest Food’ campaign http://davepress.net/2009/02/17/the-conservatives-honest-food-campaign/ Using the internet to make government more interesting Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:22:05 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Harry Harrold http://davepress.net/2009/02/17/the-conservatives-honest-food-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-2740 Harry Harrold Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:19:03 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=1353#comment-2740 The much-vaunted Mathematics taskforce site was pretty much the same... "_We_ will talk to _you_. If you're lucky, after we've _listened_ to you." But never "we will talk _with_ you." The much-vaunted Mathematics taskforce site was pretty much the same…

“_We_ will talk to _you_. If you’re lucky, after we’ve _listened_ to you.”

But never “we will talk _with_ you.”

]]> By: Rob Dyke http://davepress.net/2009/02/17/the-conservatives-honest-food-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-2739 Rob Dyke Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:28:56 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=1353#comment-2739 Thanks for your constructive and critical review of the most recent web site launched by one of our political parties. Time again political parties attempt to use the bi-directional communications medium of the internet to support uni-directional message communications. The continued failure to make meaningful use of the bi-directional medium demonstrates that our politicians and the national political parties are still conditioned by a mindset that elites can do it better and by simply mobilising people in a simplistic politics of numbers (this is a 'winner takes all' democracy, after all) to gain a numerical advantage - petitions, votes, protestors &tc - will continue to justify and sustain these elite positions. Thanks for your constructive and critical review of the most recent web site launched by one of our political parties. Time again political parties attempt to use the bi-directional communications medium of the internet to support uni-directional message communications.

The continued failure to make meaningful use of the bi-directional medium demonstrates that our politicians and the national political parties are still conditioned by a mindset that elites can do it better and by simply mobilising people in a simplistic politics of numbers (this is a ‘winner takes all’ democracy, after all) to gain a numerical advantage – petitions, votes, protestors &tc – will continue to justify and sustain these elite positions.

]]> By: PaulG http://davepress.net/2009/02/17/the-conservatives-honest-food-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-2737 PaulG Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:38:13 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=1353#comment-2737 Re: Flickr, totally agree - but even simpler, all they have to do is create a "public group" and users can add their own (existing) photos to it. They could have primed that pump by searching for terms like labeling and food and invited the owners of any images they come across to add those photos to the aforementioned group. However you are talking about misinformed, unqualified decision makers who have been hook line and sinkered into putting key information into PDFs by the guys in pink socks. Its a sign. Re: Flickr, totally agree – but even simpler, all they have to do is create a “public group” and users can add their own (existing) photos to it.

They could have primed that pump by searching for terms like labeling and food and invited the owners of any images they come across to add those photos to the aforementioned group.

However you are talking about misinformed, unqualified decision makers who have been hook line and sinkered into putting key information into PDFs by the guys in pink socks.

Its a sign.

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