Comments on: Dodgy start to David Davis campaign http://puffbox.com/2008/06/17/dodgy-start-david-davis-campaign/ Simon Dickson blogs about online news, e-government and the New Politics. Some important people read it. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:55:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matthew http://puffbox.com/2008/06/17/dodgy-start-david-davis-campaign/#comment-1247 Matthew Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:38:39 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=194#comment-1247 And there's one glaring factual error on every page: "On 12 June, I resigned from Parliament" - no he didn't. He's resigning today, e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7460345.stm . The main blurb gets it right, with "announced my intention to resign"... And there's one glaring factual error on every page: "On 12 June, I resigned from Parliament" - no he didn't. He's resigning today, e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7460345.stm . The main blurb gets it right, with "announced my intention to resign"...

]]> By: Simon http://puffbox.com/2008/06/17/dodgy-start-david-davis-campaign/#comment-1246 Simon Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:57:37 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=194#comment-1246 @Paul Yeah, spotted that (very) late last night. First job of the day: ensuring my recently added 'blogs linking here' list included the 'nofollow' attribute. @Andrew Before anyone accuses me of being age-ist, I did mention the over-40 thing myself. Glad we agreed on the age barrier, though. Wasn't sure if that was just my own mid-to-late-30s angst. And for any white supremacists who might be dropping by: I didn't actually express any 'fury' at the lack of diversity, and I'm not sure Recess Monkey or Pickled Politics did either. It was just an observation. @Paul Yeah, spotted that (very) late last night. First job of the day: ensuring my recently added 'blogs linking here' list included the 'nofollow' attribute.

@Andrew Before anyone accuses me of being age-ist, I did mention the over-40 thing myself. Glad we agreed on the age barrier, though. Wasn't sure if that was just my own mid-to-late-30s angst.

And for any white supremacists who might be dropping by: I didn't actually express any 'fury' at the lack of diversity, and I'm not sure Recess Monkey or Pickled Politics did either. It was just an observation.

]]> By: paul canning http://puffbox.com/2008/06/17/dodgy-start-david-davis-campaign/#comment-1245 paul canning Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:53:59 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=194#comment-1245 er, I clicked on the third link down and stormfront's dissecting the line-up: 'fourth in from the left is a Chinky. Also, faint signals, perhaps one of them is a Jew, one a queer (fifth in from the left), and one with six webbed toes.' er, I clicked on the third link down and stormfront's dissecting the line-up:

'fourth in from the left is a Chinky.
Also, faint signals, perhaps one of them is a Jew, one a queer (fifth in from the left), and one with six webbed toes.'

]]> By: Andrew Cooper http://puffbox.com/2008/06/17/dodgy-start-david-davis-campaign/#comment-1243 Andrew Cooper Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:17:35 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=194#comment-1243 PS - I've just emailed a link to this discussion to Davis's team asking them to respond to my point. Hopefully they'll do so below, but don't hold your breath. PS - I've just emailed a link to this discussion to Davis's team asking them to respond to my point. Hopefully they'll do so below, but don't hold your breath.

]]> By: Andrew Cooper http://puffbox.com/2008/06/17/dodgy-start-david-davis-campaign/#comment-1242 Andrew Cooper Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:09:21 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=194#comment-1242 And another thing. Why are all the people featured in the blog's banner (apart from Davis himself, obviously) clearly a lot less than 40? Any why are they all grinning? And cocking their heads in a 'this guy is saying some really interesting things' sort of way? If I were a violent person I'd want to take a baseball bat to the lot of them. Thankfully I'm not, but I wonder what Davis's advisers were thinking of when they decided to exclude us baby-boomers, not to mention our parents. Crass. And another thing. Why are all the people featured in the blog's banner (apart from Davis himself, obviously) clearly a lot less than 40? Any why are they all grinning? And cocking their heads in a 'this guy is saying some really interesting things' sort of way? If I were a violent person I'd want to take a baseball bat to the lot of them. Thankfully I'm not, but I wonder what Davis's advisers were thinking of when they decided to exclude us baby-boomers, not to mention our parents.

Crass.

]]> By: links for 2008-06-17 | DavePress http://puffbox.com/2008/06/17/dodgy-start-david-davis-campaign/#comment-1241 links for 2008-06-17 | DavePress Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:38:11 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=194#comment-1241 [...] Puffbox.com » Archive » Dodgy start to David Davis campaign Simon Dickson takes apart David Davis’ campaign website. It really is rubbish. (tags: david+davis simon+dickson by+election politics campaign website blog) [...] [...] Puffbox.com » Archive » Dodgy start to David Davis campaign Simon Dickson takes apart David Davis’ campaign website. It really is rubbish. (tags: david+davis simon+dickson by+election politics campaign website blog) [...]

]]> By: Stuart Bruce http://puffbox.com/2008/06/17/dodgy-start-david-davis-campaign/#comment-1237 Stuart Bruce Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:09:31 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=194#comment-1237 Adding to Jon's comments the DD site is particularly bad exactly because of the flexibility and potential he has. As Alan Johnson' s director of communications in the deputy leadership campaign I know that we had lots of great ideas that never saw the light of day. That's because the reality of running a campaign is far more challenging than most of the armchair critics in the blogosphere think (I'm not talking about Simon here, as you're one that gets it more than most). The main challenge for use was running a good and innovative campaign, while also having the restraints and responsibilities of a cabinet minister. DD doesn't have any of those constraints so should in theory be able to run a far more 'state of the art' campaign. Adding to Jon's comments the DD site is particularly bad exactly because of the flexibility and potential he has. As Alan Johnson' s director of communications in the deputy leadership campaign I know that we had lots of great ideas that never saw the light of day. That's because the reality of running a campaign is far more challenging than most of the armchair critics in the blogosphere think (I'm not talking about Simon here, as you're one that gets it more than most). The main challenge for use was running a good and innovative campaign, while also having the restraints and responsibilities of a cabinet minister. DD doesn't have any of those constraints so should in theory be able to run a far more 'state of the art' campaign.

]]> By: Jon Worth http://puffbox.com/2008/06/17/dodgy-start-david-davis-campaign/#comment-1236 Jon Worth Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:00:41 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=194#comment-1236 In reply to Dave: it's not the tech that's the hard bit. It's getting the politicians in question to understand how to use the tech, and profit (electorally) from it. I was responsible for Harriet Harman's deputy leadership election site and - let's be straight about it - the tech was not in itself the limiting factor. Why is Davis not using open source software either? In reply to Dave: it's not the tech that's the hard bit. It's getting the politicians in question to understand how to use the tech, and profit (electorally) from it. I was responsible for Harriet Harman's deputy leadership election site and - let's be straight about it - the tech was not in itself the limiting factor.

Why is Davis not using open source software either?

]]> By: Dave Briggs http://puffbox.com/2008/06/17/dodgy-start-david-davis-campaign/#comment-1235 Dave Briggs Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:28:39 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=194#comment-1235 Great dissection of a pretty poor site, Simon. A shame - all he needed to do was have a look at what the labour deputy leader candidates did last year - especially Alan Johnson - and build on that. Bearing in mind there is a "proper" election coming up, we are either in line for a huge number of new, terrible websites; or massive opportunities for those few that know what they are doing ;-) Great dissection of a pretty poor site, Simon. A shame - all he needed to do was have a look at what the labour deputy leader candidates did last year - especially Alan Johnson - and build on that.

Bearing in mind there is a "proper" election coming up, we are either in line for a huge number of new, terrible websites; or massive opportunities for those few that know what they are doing ;-)

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