Jon Snow on journalists during election time:
"Once an election is called, journalists go into overdrive. It’s a genuinely exciting time – a voyage into the unknown whose ending will affect all our lives."
This gem otherwise buried in a blog post about Lords' expenses.
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Steve Herrmann on BBC's online coverage of UK election:
"Our focus will be on up-to-the-minute live reporting and video of all the key moments, as well as in-depth information, analysis and context to help make sense of it all."
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"With the general election 2010 campaign well and truly underway, it's easy for the key facts to get lost in a barrage of propaganda, counter-accusations and obsfucation, as Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats battle for the key marginals.
To help you through the next few weeks of campaign, we've compiled some of the best datasets. Every day, we'll be adding more and more to the site – so let us know if there's anything else you need to know.
What can you do with the data?"
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Excellent digital election timeline by Martin Belam.
"There has already been plenty of heated debate about whether this is going to be seen as the 'digital election' or the 'social media election'. I've been compiling a Dipity timeline of interesting bits of the digital campaign.
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I'm interested in digital and social media activities by political parties, innovation from news organisations, and interesting election related web content and applications from any source.
If you spot something you think I should include during the General Election campaign, then please leave a comment here, drop me an email at martin.belam@currybet.net, or message me on Twitter – @currybet."
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10am – Gordon Brown departs for an audience with the Queen
10.30am – David Cameron to address Tory supporters
11am – Gordon Brown to formally announce date of election at Downing Street”
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