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The longlist… there’s always next year
Although this blog made it to the longlist of best political blog in the Welsh Blog Awards; it has, unfourtunately, not been lucky enough to make it to the short list.
However @caebrwyn’s (Jacqui Thomson) blog has made it to the short list, and a very well done to her! There is a ‘people’s choice award’ for the blog where you all can vote, and so I urge all of you to go and vote for carmarthenshireplanning.blogspot.com. The blog has been working constantly to open up local government decision making, and to attain the right to film at council meetings, a cause fully supported on this blog!
Quoting tweets
From now on I will be able to quote tweets directly onto here. Not only will you be able to see the tweet but you will be able to retweet, reply, view the tweeter’s profile etc all from the post. Here’s one of my tweets to test…. go on try replying from here.
Here is a tweet for my blog that you will be able to reply to straight from the blog post on http://www.aledwyn.com—
Aled™ (@aledwg) April 25, 2011
Methu mynd i Bala?
Mae’n hynod o gyffroes fod yn rhan o dîm sy’ gyda phobl dalentog ynddi. Yep mae gan Metastwnsh aelod newydd, a gyda fe’r syniad o greu stwnsh o brofiadau pobl o’r eisteddfod. Gyda’r syniad hwn a dylunio Gareth Jones mae gan Metastwnsh gwasanaeth newydd sy’n ffrydio pob tweet sy’n cynnwys y tag #eisteddfod09 , #eisteddfod a #bala. Ynghyd a hyn mae pob llun sy’n cynnwys y geiriau hyn yn cael eu ffrydio o Flickr, ac mae yna ddefnydd gwych o google maps a grëwyd gan Rhys Llwyd wedi cael ei chynnwys ar y gwefan.
Mae’n syndod faint a ellir cyflawni mewn amser bach iawn a heb gyllideb fawr, os o gwbwl. Meddyliwch beth allai’r BBC, S4C neu’r Eisteddfod ei hun cyflawni os oedd ganddynt y weledigaeth…
Fello os na allwch chi mynd i Bala mewn cwch banana, neu unrhyw ffordd arall, ewch i weld GWASANAETH METASTWNSH.
Is Twitter good for democracy?
Today there will be a short debate in the National Assembly for Wales, tabled by Bethan Jenkis AM on the role of “new media”, i.e Twitter in democracy. Can services such as Twitter invigorate politics in Wales, where turnout for elections are small at best? I think it can, and I believe that it’s required of our elected representatives to make full use of these new ways of communicating. This is especially true for younger voters, who are less likely to communicate with their AM’s through the “traditional” channels (surgeries, lettering, attending public meetings).
Twitter can, and IS being used to commentate on debates within the Senedd, which can be a quick way of keeping up with debate (as long as you keep in mind that Party Politics can come into play when it is the politicians themselves who Twitter).
We see ourselves at an interesting time, when blogs are maturing into the mainstream and people aren’t sure what exactly to do with Twitter in a political context. I suppose it takes time for a new technology to be fully realized. Apart from printing Bibles, the printing press’ full potential wasn’t utilized in its infancy, could this new revolution in communications be a similar scenario?
