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YouTube launches political campaign toolset

Written By: - Date published: 12:56 pm, June 4th, 2010 - 2 comments

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Today, Google launched a new set of tools to help political candidates and activist organisastions engage with constituents and citizens.

From the Google Public Sector Blog:

We want to do our part to make sure candidates and campaigns have the tools to stay close to voters, who now expect to hear and see much more from their elected officials than ever before.

The Bechdel Test

Written By: - Date published: 6:59 pm, May 23rd, 2010 - 44 comments

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“The Bechdel test” requires a movie to pass three questions:

1) Does it have two or more women in it (who have names)?

2) Do they talk to one another?

3) Do they talk to one another about something other than a man?

This two minute video explains…

YL video: Join the opposition

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 14th, 2009 - 18 comments

Not to be outshone by their leader’s latest efforts, looks like Young Labour have been busy with a little video project of their own. Nice. (Hat-tip: Red Alert)

The Nats’ campaign vid that you and I paid for

Written By: - Date published: 2:14 pm, May 13th, 2009 - 54 comments

I figure the very least the Nats could do after spending our money on their asian-voter campaign video is to share it with us. Strangely, I couldn’t find it on the National Party website as referenced by last night’s Campbell Live piece. Fortunately the YouTube user “NationalAsianTeam” still has their copy up – it’s embedded …

Political monogamy

Written By: - Date published: 1:42 pm, June 13th, 2008 - 43 comments

Thought this might make a good followup to Steve/Trotter’s comments in the post below. It’s from the group TruthThroughAction.org – a group of independent filmmakers who create content in support of Democratic causes.  It may also serve as a timely warning to any women planning on attending the next of John Key’s young professional networking …

The day there was no news

Written By: - Date published: 10:25 pm, May 19th, 2008 - 5 comments

Paul Henry must go

Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, May 6th, 2008 - 53 comments

This morning’s performace on breakfast TV by Paul Henry was a disgrace. His complete lack of objectivity on the rail and ferry buy-back was even more biased and partisan than we have come to expect from him. Despite Guyon Espiner’s best efforts to provide some objective analysis of the government’s decision, Henry simply shouted about …

National on personal attacks

Written By: - Date published: 2:24 pm, April 29th, 2008 - 13 comments

Greenwoman just flicked us this:

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