Daniel who?
The most intriguing online story of the past couple of weeks has been the way a three minute speech by a little known politician, Daniel Hannan, ‘went viral’ on YouTube. Why, and what can be learn from it? I’ve linked this in my latest column with a look at how the G20 supporters and protestors used the internet. I suspect the protestors have subtle methods that I would be unlikely to spot – using encryption for example – but the main use of blogs, Twitter etc seems to be to provide ‘citizen journalism’ rather than as organising tools. I wrote this piece just before the big demos on Wednesday – there was certainly a good deal of reporting from the protest lines: look particularly at Indymedia. No videos to challenge Mr Hannan: the most viewed one I spotted was a news report from Al Jazeera English.
Posted on April 03, 2009 07:48 by David | 0 comments
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