Regular readers of  my posts about online politics will know my scepticism of the extent to which online fundraising can work in the UK on the same scale as it does in the US (e.g. because there’s a different attitude towards supporting causes by giving money rather than time in the US and because in

Around 12,000 people made the second UK national Get online day their excuse to get onto the internet and try something new online.

The European Parliament has launched an online TV service to help make EU matters more accesible, particularly to younger people. You can check the site out by clicking here There is already a video about the problem of the European City Guide online. It's in the Your Voice section of the site.

Joanna Lumley emails: I have some great news about the Gurkha Justice campaign that I want to update you on. Firstly, we now have over 120,000 online signatures with over 20,000 returned in the post. If you haven't done so already, please spread the word to all your online contacts and ask them to sign up online too at www.gurkhajustice.org.uk Second, there have been some exciting steps forward in...

A successful transformation of the online auction site into a Silicon Valley powerhouse and her Republican ties make Meg Whitman well positioned to run for governor of California in 2010

An online dossier about Tory Worries As many of you will not know I am a Liberal Democrats blogger who has recently started a site called Tory Worries but need your help. Tory Worries is an online dossier of worries that people have of having a Tory government after the next general election, and I think this is the best place for me to be advertising the site. Please visit Tory Worries and add yo...

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.

It was no secret that Derek Draper was launching a new site aimed at strengthening Labour’s online army in the war of the blogs. A meeting was organised a few weeks ago by Draper for a bunch of Labour people to hear what Blue State Digital, the online strategy firm behind Obama’s online campaign, had

This site is maintained by the British Library. It provides free access to an online collection of materials supporting the exhibition - Henry VIII: Man and Monarch which it hosted in 2009. These include digital images of original documents, manuscripts, prints and maps. These provide insight into both the public and private life of the monarch. Topics include the the tudor king's accession t...

New Democrats Online is a useful online community of bloggers who support the Canadian New Democratic Party. The site is non -official, it is not maintained by the New Democratic Party. However, it is a useful starting point for tracing recent news stories, grassroot comment and analysis about Canadian politics from a democratic socialist perspective. Topics covered by blogs are wide ranging. They...