Tobias Escher at the OII

After I have recently spent a couple of days racking my brain about it, I thought I better share to give others a head start. Ok, here is the task: Automatically query Google Blogsearch to find the number of “all” English-language blog posts containing a number of words that have been published during a certain [...]

At our first OII Oxford Blogging Roundtable we had Kevin Anderson, the blogs editor from the Guardian (and formerly the BBC). He proved to be a perfect choice to kick off this series we are planning on holding once a term (for non-Oxonians: this equates for roughly once every two month with a loooong summer [...]

I wrote some time ago that besides my doctoral thesis, my research assistant job and some external work I’ve taken on I pursue a project that aims to provide empirical data to investigate how different the blogosphere is from traditional media and how both influence each other. I am happy to share with you that [...]

On Wednesday I’ve attended an event organized by the New Political Communication Unit at Royal Holloway (headed by Andrew Chadwick) that aimed to offer some thoughts on what the Number 10 petitions website has (not) achieved so far. Among the discussants were Jimmy Leach, the former head of communications at Downing Street, Tom Steinberg of [...]