Perhaps the most important way in which online organising offers hope to tired and frustrated progressives in the UK is as much about looking back as it is forwards. Our online lives make possible a re-convergence of our social and political identities.

From SNP Tactical Voting: Scotland's first online newspaper is now live... Caledonian Mercury, billing itself as Scotland's first online newspaper, is now available to be viewed and presumably off and running. The Politics section seems to be manned chiefly by Hamish MacDonnell and contains some excellent articles already. Stewart Kirkpatrick, editor of the online publication, is clearly enthusias...

From the BBC press office: BBC One and BBC Two will be available to watch live online from 27 November, Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision, announced today. The channels join BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies and BBC News which are already simulcast. They can all be watched online via their...

As a Lib Dem working in online and multimedia communications, the concept of an ‘Internet election’ is something I have thought quite a lot about. In the build up to the election I expressed my concerns about the Lib Dems use of online tools on my own blog. I am pleased to say that on

To the Hansard Society website in search of the new Report on MPs Online: Connecting with Constituents , without huge expectations following on from the Hazel Blears "Cynical Nihilistic Political Bloggers" nonsense (*). Oooh. Look. They are having an event with Mark Pack, Jonathon Isaby and Derek Draper about online campaigning. Good.

Many were asking for a new picture of Sea Fighter (FSF-1), and the community delivers. Wow that thing needs a paint job. I think she has gone from the idea of cool to the visualization of ugly. Effectiveness is what matters though.

The Office of Fair Trading and Get Safe Online have joined forces to urge internet users to be vigilant against online fraudsters as recent research shows that online scams are on the increase.

Putting Rowen First? Nonsense! Rowen pays loads to Lib Dem "charidee" coffers PIC: Porn-O Rochdale Rowen Online have been the first to reveal their take on Paul Rowen's expenses take. In the spirit of "sharing" which leads Rowen Online to regularly nick Rochdale Observer stories without attribution or payment we are cutting and pasting the whole thing - weak as it is - below, without payment,...

Political correspondent Eddie Barnes is online from 1pm today to host an online debate about Prime Minister's Questions and any other political matters you want to raise.

"Rowen Online" aka Rochdale Online - web-based publication, part owned by the respectable Oldham Chronicle, and part directed by a respectable Solicitor, though that does not stop them running lies and sleaze and horribly biased coverage is widely considered to be in the pocket of or in fear of the sleaze and expenses rip off Lib Dems in the Town. What is this based on? Well, although publisher Ma...