6 Comments

• Edis 11th Nov '07 - 1:03pm

  Great!

  but … if it is multimedia it will exclde (for example) deaf people who cannot follow the spoken word from videos and podcasts – unless subtitles or parallel texts are provided. And if it takes an age to download… well some of us are still not on broadband.

  Candidates campaign teams please note!

• Jo A 11th Nov '07 - 1:58pm

  Surely you can afford broadband?!!!
  I’m a low local govt admin salary and I’ve managed!!! ;@)
  I’m sure it will be most interesting…

• Hywel Morgan 11th Nov '07 - 4:02pm

  Even with broadband I don’t often watch on videos as it’s harder to take in the information quickly. Whereas text I can scan through pretty quickly and take in the bits I want.

• Richard Gadsden 11th Nov '07 - 4:33pm

  I do have broadband, but video is tricky when I’m not at home, whereas I can read text on my mobile on the train.

• Rabi Martins 11th Nov '07 - 5:12pm

  This is a welcome move

  How about extending it to an online interactive session?

• MatGB 13th Nov '07 - 2:58pm

  @Jo A, sometimes broadband simply isn’t available, or isn’t an option in certain areas or buildings. There are some rural areas still without, and sometimes some people are limited for other reasons: while I lived in my Torquay flat the expense of installing it (and getting the building rewired to do so) for the brief period I planned to live there wasn’t worth it. Especially given the need for a one-year minimum contract, etc.

  I managed to run a very succesful blog and a huge bunch of other websites with a dial up connection. Now I’ve moved to London and have broadband, my blogging and web-management has almost tailed down to nothing.

  Broadband isn’t needed, and for a chunk, isn’t an option, so campaign teams ought to note that the web is best served with text, and always provide transcripts and similar, just good practise.