The Wardman Wire

In brief, some reflections on the Party Conferences 2008:

A tongue in Cheek Review of the three Leaders’ Speeches from David Keen:

Here’s a sneak preview:

Length
38 Minutes, 4085 words (107.5 wpm)
58 Minutes, 6703 words (115.6 wpm)
64 Minutes, 7083 words (110.7 wpm)

Which might just mean that Brown speaks more quickly, or that Cameron got more applause, or that Cameron deliberately slowed down to do the ‘gravitas’ thing. Clegg had more jokes and payoff lines, which may explain his slower delivery.

There’ll be best quotes, core ideas and more.

I’ll be writing about the European Arrest Warrant:

Don’t complain when you are arrested in Norway for Plane-Spotting in Greece, or in for expressing your opinion in one country on a matter where another country does not allow it’s citizens to talk about. The latter happened this week at Heathrow for opinions expressed in Australia.

Mike Rouse will be looking at Media Training for young politicians - reflecting on the Media Workshop run before the Party Conference by the Young Briton’ Foundation .

I’ll be updating you with the SPCK Campaign to make sure that the events around loss and dismantling of this 200 year old UK Bookshop Chain are properly scrutinised. I have had a bit of a break, but the group continues to be on the case (if you want all the detail). This one is not going away.

And I’ll also be doing the Britblog Roundup this weekend (submissions to britblog AT gmail DOT com).

And finally, I’ll be having a look at Ultra Focused Websites for Political Campaiging. Drawing on some examples from the Obama Campaign, and from the Liberal Democrats. As a taster, I wrote an article about Derek Draper and his blog rebuttal unit last Thursday. That article is now:

• In the top 15 websites on Google for “Derek Draper”
• In the top 2 websites on Google for “Derek Draper Blog”
• Top on Google for “Dolly Draper”

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