I’ve been following MP blog activity and decided it was time to provide some statistics and thoughts. For the purpose of this point, I looked at the period between February 13 and this morning (February 24). During that time… 12 Liberal MPs combined for 32 posts; the most by any party. Surprisingly, they combined for [...]
Shortly before I got my own iPad in May, a number of friends told me it was nothing more than a fantastic content consumption and interaction device. Basically, it was great for surfing the web, doing email, following blogs, watching videos and reading books. I wasn’t entirely convinced, particularly since Apple had released versions of [...]
MPs received a special gift this past holiday season. After several years of having to update their Twitter status using the clunky web interface on their standard issue Blackberries, the parliamentary IT folk delivered the official Twitter and Facebook apps to MP mobile smartphones (after I tweeted about this, @joshzel noted the same apps have [...]
As promised, here are some additional MP Twitter breakdowns and analysis based on Twitter activity up to this past Saturday. This is the first in a series of posts. In this one I provide raw data and accompanying thoughts. Later today I will provide additional thoughts on what the numbers mean. Twitter Accounts and Profiles [...]
As a follow-up to last week’s report, Peace, Order and Googleable Government, I’ve create a video which highlights a number of interesting stats. I’m a day behind on my blogging. I’ll be posting additional findings starting later today.
We once celebrated with Kraft Dinner and friends. Another year we spent the evening at Chapters and then had a late dinner at Kettleman’s. Last year we struggled with news that our insurance broker had misled us regarding the insurance coverage he’d hyped up and sold to us. Yes. Andrea and I have a weird [...]
The Internet community is alive and well. One of the many benefits is the fantastic and productive feedback the online community is willing to share. I received some about Peace, Order and Googleable Government, the report I released yesterday, and have revised the report as a result. The updated version replaces the version already available for [...]
Which MP has the most photos in their Flickr stream? Which has a YouTube video with more than 42K views? Do you know whose Twitter account has a “True Reach” of 9? Peace, Order and Googleable Government gives a glimpse into how Canadian MPs are slowly adopting seven major social networking tools to communicate and [...]
