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YouTube Interviews: Strengths and Weaknesses

I’m pretty much expecting to wake up today and read a number of stories about how the YouTube interview of the Prime Minister didn’t work, about how we should leave interviews to journalists, and that all this internet, audience driven stuff is a big waste of time.
I’m not sure I agree.
Was the interview good? It [...]

Posted 17 March 2010 | David Eaves § canadian politics § free culture § public policy § technology ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

The Prime Minister, The Press and The Fear Disintermediation

Last week the Prime Minister announced that he would use YouTube to answer citizen submitted questions. Over the past seven days thousands of Canadians have submitted and voted on questions that they would like to Prime Minister to answer.
Is this novel or new? Not really – on a smaller scale politicians have been doing Town [...]

Posted 15 March 2010 | David Eaves § canadian politics § media § technology ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Q&A from O’Reilly Media: Gov 2.0 International Online Conference

I know during my session I wasn’t able to answer everyone’s questions. However, I was able to find a few other questions in the chat and twitter stream. I’m a big believer that everyone should have a chance to ask a question so – with apologies that I couldn’t do them live – here are [...]

Posted 11 March 2010 | David Eaves § commentary § public service sector renewal § technology ‡ Comments (9) ° Also tagged: , ,

Interview on the State of Open Gov and Gov 2.0 on O’Reilly Radar

At the moment I’m at the mid-point of an epic 8 city, two and a half week tour de force (Vancouver-Chicago-Ottawa-Edmonton-Toronto-New York City-Toronto-Austin-Indianapolis-Vancouver) with talks happening at most stops (I’ve three today).
As some of you already know, one of today’s talk is part of the online Gov 2.0 International Conference being hosted by O’Reilly Media. [...]

Posted 11 March 2010 | David Eaves § cool links § open data § public policy § public service sector renewal § technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Today in the Globe: Facebook’s Political Reach

I have the following piece published in the Globe and Mail today. It isn’t going to further endear me to Michael Valpy (who is already not impressed with me)… but felt another perspective on the issue was needed. He, like many traditional columnists, is not a fan of social – or digital – media. Indeed, [...]

Posted 19 February 2010 | David Eaves § canadian politics § commentary § free culture § media § technology ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

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