7 responses to “Cry havoc: Here comes (Oh) Nine…”
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Echo your feelings on the Road. It has made me question so much, and search deeply. Am I the parent or the child? While yes I am the parent – and the book made me passionately, wildly aware of this – I am more the child. An optimist at heart, with faith in the general goodness of humankind. An amazing, amazing book.
One of many quotest that sticks in my mind, very apt for this chilling winter: “By day, the banished sun circled the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.” Absolutely sublime.
While I love all things Viggo Mortensen, I don’t think I could bare to alter my experience of the book by seeing the film. Def don’t see trailers or stills before reading!
Antony – I have a question for you. I am preparing a paper on the future of government monitoring in the web2.0 era and wondered if you had any thoughts? The title question is:
“How do you see the role of government monitoring developing, taking into account web developments and the changing media landscape?”
ENDS
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Thanks very much for your comment – I utterly agree with your assessment of The Road. I’d be tempted not to watch the film (but I probably will)…
On the question of government monitoring, do you mean monitoring of governments by the people/NGOs or of the web by governments?
if you can let me know I’d be happy to respond…
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Ah yes, I wondered whether that was clear. It’s MEDIA monitoring of web and traditional channels output for people inside the government. You know, the media monitoring unit set up by Clarence Mitchell, spokesperson for the McCanns.
And I will probably watch the film too. I can’t believe my neighbour thinks the book is emperor’s new clothes. I can’t understand it. A parent thing possibly?
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Hello Antony – did you have any thoughts? If so I’ll be relaying your insight to a panel of people TOMORROW afternoon!
Attributed, naturally… :)
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Beg your pardon, Marisol, here’s some thoughts:
“How do you see the role of government monitoring developing, taking into account web developments and the changing media landscape?”
Like any other organisation, governments need to understand their networks and be able to listen to what people that are important to it are saying.
Because online networks evolve rapidly this is not a simple thing to take on. Any methods/technologies need to be under constant revision and the “landscape” of the web needs to be mapped and remapped to understand how communities and conversations are changing.
I would imagine most government departments would benefit from a semi-indpendent team that is doing the listening / filtering of content and conversations from the web and passing them to relevant decision makers in ways they can use quickly.
Perhaps this should be the role of a department like the Office of National Statistics. I recall Churchill established this so he could get accurate data during the Second World War, because departments would distort stats that they sent him. The ONS gave him the closest information to the truth they could get, warts and all.
The web is also useful to governments because they can get closer to what people really think and say about issues. Get closer to the people, really.
Listening properly is also the first step to engaging with people in social media properly.
Listening, not monitoring, mind…
I hope that’s useful.
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