Comments on: Will UK politicians advertise on our political blogs?

By: Simon Collister

Simon Collister — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:14:02 +0000

I can see why some naive politicians will think advertising on blogs would be a good think, but it’s more about building supporters through/within your network. That’s why tools such as blogging are replacing advertising in the business world innit?

Plus I would have reservations about voting for ahyone who advertised on Guido’s site…; ) which reminds me. Did I see an M&S ad on there a while back!?

By: Ellee

Ellee — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:30:53 +0000

Croydonian, I’ve been to Utah and had a few “dry” days there while on a ski trip to nearby Snowbird, said to have the best powder snow in the world. I didn’t come across any “ghosts”, I decided not to risk breaking their laws.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:21:00 +0000

I hope to god this never happens. The UK & Australia can pride themselves on their political systems, god help us if they ever are influenced by the almighty dollar such as America.

By: Croydonian

Croydonian — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:27:53 +0000

Can’t see political advertising of that sort catching on in these parts, frankly.

Re Romney, polygamy is illegal even in Utah, and the Church of Jesus of the etc etc no longer sanctions it, although there are schismatics from it who do. As a footnote, bars in Utah cannot refer to spirits, instead they are called ‘ghosts’. I am NOT making this up.

By: Paul Staines

Paul Staines — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:59:50 +0000

Ellee can I invite you to sign up to MessageSpace?

If it is good enough for Iain…

Shhhsh:

http://messagespace.co.uk/blog/join

Can’t promise you the same size of monthly n cheque…

By: Andrew Allison

Andrew Allison — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:55:25 +0000

It won’t happen at the moment, but if UK blogs reach the power of influence as some of the US blogs; you never know.

By: james higham

james higham — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:25:44 +0000

What a brilliant idea. I want the Chipmunk on mine.

By: Ellee

Ellee — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:12:57 +0000

Stuart, I just envisaged Tory’s advertising on Tory blog sites and Labour on theirs too.

Gracchi, That’s interesting news about Hillary Benn, shows he’s taking social media seriously.

By: Gracchi

Gracchi — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:53:03 +0000

Interesting personally I’m not sure- for a start we don’t have as well developed a primary audience as the Americans do which doesn’t help though the Tory leadership was a new frontier- it’ll be fascinating to watch the Labour deputy leadership contest to see how things develop- Alex Hilton said he’d been recruited to run Hillary Benn’s campaign so maybe cyber campaigning is seen as a good idea now. It might take more primary elections- it’ll be interesting to see what happens when the major parties next change their leaders I guess say in around 2008 (assuming Brown is crowned) and what happens then.

By: Stuart Bruce

Stuart Bruce — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:07:23 +0000

Ellee, it doesn’t matter that they are ‘political geeks’ as research suggests that bloggers also tend to be influencers. The value isn’t just in the coversation online, but the conversation and debate it creates in the offline world.

That said I don’t see a big roll for advertising on political blogs. Iain is highly unlikely to carry a Labour Party ad, just as LabourHome is unlikely to carry a Tory one. Most of the best political blogs have partisan authors.