UK election 2005 - E-election
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Electioneers using old and new techniques
The marketing strategies of all three leading parties in the general election owe a debt to George W. Bush, according to executives involved in this and past campaigns.
Campaigners take to the web to discredit Blair
If visitors to Google, the popular search engine, type in the word ‘liar’ they get Tony Blair's official biography among the top results.
Politics takes off into the blogosphere
This will be a blogging election: bloggers, already a political and media force in the US, will have real visibility in the UK for the first time. Will that be a good thing?
David Bowen: Web not electorally UP4IT
It is a waste of money pouring huge resources into a political party site. Websites are brilliant at handling complexity, but they are useless for snappy slogans.
Labour's online strategy failing to take off
Labour party plans to use the internet to mobilise voters could be heading for failure, research for the Financial Times has found.
Blair pledges to close 'digital divide'
Labour will this week try to cast itself as the party of the future with a plan to close the "digital divide" between rich and poor.
Reflections on the key election results as they came in through the night
Zero Five is FT.com’s election blog, monitoring press and web coverage of the UK election.
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