The Wardman Wire

This is massively in advance (or not), but these things usually work like snails. Now that the Wardman Wire has a decent front-page video showcase, I’m looking at the possibility of publishing Party Conference Video (and text) Blogs this autumn. I’ve not been a conference habitué, so if anyone has any useful hints, tips or offers to participate I’d be interested to hear them.

This post has been prompted by some reflection during my time off daily blogging, and also by this post over at Grimmer Up North about Battling Bureaucracy (incidentally, I found that via Wikio).

The distinctive point I’m aiming for would be to provide some coverage of *all* the conferences in some form – including the smaller parties. I’m interested in all sorts of video – interviews with politicians, other interview, video blogs and so on.

I’d be aiming to take the simplest approach possible, which probably means video uploaded directly to Youtube or a similar service.

I suspect that there is a monstrous regiment of bureaucracy to work around, a monstrous regiment of technology to deal with and I can imagine whole counties being declared to be a “protected area” to faciliate control of people trying to be more than 0.00001% off-message. I’m expecting all sorts of wrinkles – such as the need to book 4 months in advance and that passes are not transferable from the named individual who has been banned because someone with the same name said boo to a goose in 1927.

If you are interested (possibly in a collaborative project), or have any comments or ideas – please drop a comment in the box or email me on mattwardman AT gmail DOT com.