You can’t have missed that David Cameron has launched a new video based website that he hopes will create a place for comment and discussion.
The site, webcameron, is a simple looking site that has many of the key elements a supposed Web2.0 site needs, comments and tags, although I couldn’t see an RSS feed to subscribe to.
Journalist Bruno Giussani takes an informed look over David Cameron’s site and points out a couple of inconsistencies, and also highlights a comment I made about giving the videos the YouTube treatment.
By this I mean allowing people to add them to their own website and so generate conversations and comments across the web, which will naturally be beyond the control of David Cameron and his team, but will spread his work far and wide.
As you can see I've added one of the videos to my site as a couple have now appeared on YouTube; I think you can be pretty sure this is not ‘the official David Cameron on YouTube’.
"key elements a supposed Web2.0 site needs, comments"
Well we've got that "Open Blog" thing where all the comments on all the posts are dumped in one place, and from reading the comments there users appear to be confused as to if it's a place to comment or a place to Blog themselves. Apparantly its in process of being built - and comments on specific articles / videos will be possible in the future.
The real David Cameron didn't post his video to YouTube. I wrote a comment to his site suggesting that he release his work into the public domain or under an open licence so that more people can have the confidence to place it on their own websites - the comment was rejected.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DQkYNzvF4
Posted by: webcamronator | October 01, 2006 at 17:32
Ah, that David Cameron eh. He was awarded the Communicator of the Year title at the recent PR Week awards, with Webcameron cited a lot. He's a former PR man constantly surrounded by PR people - and sometimes getting it right!
Posted by: Jane | November 16, 2006 at 17:21