Wednesday, September 10, 2008
NetPrimeMinister follows the election conversation
The University of British Columbia School of Journalism has launched a fantastic resource call NetPrimeMinister which tracks and categorizes (by party leader) the digital conversation on blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Digg about the current Canadian federal election — our third in four years.
As good as the site is, it misses the mark on one very important feature of the digital conversation: RSS feeds. That’s right. If you want to follow the site, you have to go to it and use their interface.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:38 am
The site is a collection of Technorati searches all added to a Netvibes universe page, right click on the page and choose to open the frame in a new window and you’ll see the netvibes domain.
There are feeds for each of the seperate modules, just click on the titles to go to the Technorati page that links to the feed.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Thanks for the feedback. We created NetPrimeMinister.ca to serve as an aggregator of the social media buzz around the candidates, using existing web services. I think it demonstrates how we can use these Web 2.0 tools to offer different perspectives on events such as the race to be prime minister.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Thanks for your comment, Alfred. NetPrimeMinister.ca is an amazing resource and I intend to take advantage of it to help me follow the digital conversation on the federal election.
Is there any chance that you will add RSS for the site as a whole and the individual elements you present in it? This would certainly add exceptional value to an already exceptional site.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Creating RSS feeds of all this material is a great idea. I will have a go if I can find some time. I agree that it would add to the site as a whole.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I appreciate you jumping in on this post, Alfred.
Thank you to everyone at the UBC School of Journalism for making NetPrimeMinister.ca available to the public.
PS. I’ll be watching for the RSS feeds. :)