[Electronics Technicians ] [ResourceShelf] Newsletter 454

[Gary Price]

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Number 454 May 6, 2010

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We take a look at a a resource with an across-the-pond focus this
week. The UK general election is this week. Our UK contributing
editor for DocuTicker, Adrian Janes, offers a tour of a one-stop
shopping site for information about the UK General Election 2010.

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Resource of the Week - Politicsresources.Net - British General
Election, 2010 By Adrian Janes, DocuTicker Contributing Editor

Direct link to this post online: <http://digbig.com/5bbnma>

A British General Election will take place on May 6th. For a gateway
to many of the key sources of information, the General Election page
of Politicsresources.net is very hard to beat. The site also includes
some original content, as in this page about the party leaders' TV
debates (the first ever in Britain).

There are five main sections:

* Parties, candidates and the election
* Polls, predictions, statistics and tactical voting
* Hung Parliament
* Newspaper and TV General Election sites
* Other election sites and information

In a situation where partisan views are prevalent,
Politicsresources.net provides a useful corrective by trying to offer
direct links to all of the political spectrum. The Parties section
exemplifies this, with an enormous list of links for both national and
local party websites and manifestos, allowing them to speak for
themselves. Bear in mind that some organisations listed are not
parties as such, but as interest groups are politically active in some
measure. But this, too, has the virtue of increasing a truer awareness
of the range of views on the political scene, beyond the standard
'three major parties' scenario that dominates most political
discussion in Britain. (If, however, you only want to examine
registered political parties, a link is given to the official
Electoral Commission list.)

Sites on a particular aspect of the election are also usefully
included in this section. For example, many parliamentary
constituencies have had their boundaries altered since the 2005
General Election; they are listed here. The Times provides an analysis
of seats considered likely to be affected by one of the big issues of
the past year, the abuse of the MPs' expenses system.

The day-by-day fluctuations of views are reflected in the Polls
section, the polls themselves being drawn from various sources (which
are, of course, inclined to give their own slant to any poll results).
Some interactive maps - e.g.,from the Daily Telegraph - are also given
here, providing a brief description of the circumstances, electoral
history and prospects of a constituency.

The very existence of this site is testimony to the part the Internet
now plays in shaping politics and how we gather information about
public affairs. But in the past five years since the last General
Election, there has also been the explosion in blogging and social
networking - incorporated here through such sites as Tweetelection
(based on general voter sentiment) and Tweetminster (based on tweets
from candidates and others considered politically influential). Many
other sites, even if not explicitly based around something like
Twitter, include invitations to network and share.

Another way in which the Internet effect is revealed is by searches
and, as the search engine of choice for the majority in Britain,
Google's UK Election search trends is potentially highly significant,
showing spikes and declines in interest in major figures, parties and
issues, with a zoom facility to manipulate the period covered between
a day and a year.

The third section of the site is given over to explaining the concept
of a 'hung' parliament (PDF), where no party has an overall majority,
and examining its implications. Many polls were already suggesting
that voter sentiment is such that this may well occur, and the effect
of the TV debates has been to accentuate this. Some sites listed here
are actually agitating for that outcome.

The fourth section draws together the coverage from some of the
traditional media (e.g., the BBC, the Guardian and Reuters). This
further illustrates the overall convenience of the site - what remain
as the chief sources of current news for most people are provided as
well as the blogs and social networking opportunities.

'Other election sites and information' appears to be essentially a
miscellaneous category, often blogs of some sort. But it also includes
such sites as The Straight Choice, reproducing scans of local
political leaflets with a postcode search facility; the UK National
Debt Clock; the Mumsnet General Election page, offering its members'
perspectives; and party iPhone apps:

# http://digbig.com/5bbngw, and

# http://digbig.com/5bbnha

It’s certainly an absorbing and sometimes surprising selection.

To gain a really comprehensive picture of the British General Election
- its issues, the range of party policies and voters' views - would
take a lot of reading of many sources. Politicsresources.net does an
immense service in making this task that bit more achievable, by its
channeling of the daily news and the variety of ideas being expressed.

Full post online with live links: <http://digbig.com/5bbnma>

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