The Cost of Policing Blogs
Posted December 19th, 2006 by quarsan
It's well known that the media obsessed government monitor blogs - especially if you can read your server logs. This is a good thing, at least they're trying to find out what people are saying and, slightly suprisingly, we haven't had anyone knocking at our door yet.
The PM's office and others have teams of people who read blogs all day (much like any modern office really) as nobody has worked out how to use Google Alerts.
But what does it all cost? John Reid's not saying.
Shame, we could put in a tender for the job if you want, we'll do it better and cheaper!
Someome should tell them
Someome should tell them about Political Opinions. It's saved me a lot of research time since I discovered it (and no, they're not paying me to say this!).
Ian
They know exactly what we
They know exactly what we (and they) ought to be talking about -- that's why they put in all that effort to spin things so that we don't talk about it (and they don't need to).
All we're doing is giving them feedback about where their spin isn't working. This could go either way: they could improve their game of spin, or they give up wasting everyone's time. If only. If only.