Comments on: Governance of Britain relaunched http://puffbox.com/2008/06/26/governance-of-britain-relaunched/ Adventures in government, politics and open source. Mostly WordPress-related. Fri, 11 May 2012 16:17:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Simon http://puffbox.com/2008/06/26/governance-of-britain-relaunched/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Simon Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:11:21 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=208#comment-402 The idea at the moment is to hack the normal comments form to ask people for a YouTube URL (optional, obviously). If they submit one, we could extrapolate the appropriate embedding code, and show it alongside (or instead of?) a text comment. All would be subject to moderation, of course. It's hard enough getting government departments to open themselves up to comments. I just can't see any official body allowing anarchic inclusion of user-generated content based on tagging. And for once, I'm inclined to agree. The idea at the moment is to hack the normal comments form to ask people for a YouTube URL (optional, obviously). If they submit one, we could extrapolate the appropriate embedding code, and show it alongside (or instead of?) a text comment. All would be subject to moderation, of course.

It's hard enough getting government departments to open themselves up to comments. I just can't see any official body allowing anarchic inclusion of user-generated content based on tagging. And for once, I'm inclined to agree.

]]> By: Shane McCracken http://puffbox.com/2008/06/26/governance-of-britain-relaunched/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Shane McCracken Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:34:43 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=208#comment-401 Along with many others I'm intrigued what the response would be if a Govt dept said we'll embed videos/posts with tag XYZ on our site. Would people bother? Would they purposely post inappropriate material? I look forward to seeing what's possible. Along with many others I'm intrigued what the response would be if a Govt dept said we'll embed videos/posts with tag XYZ on our site. Would people bother? Would they purposely post inappropriate material?

I look forward to seeing what's possible.

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