Geotagged blogging for campaign

People do a lot of waiting in hospitals and wherever else they access government services. When people start using their phones more often as entertainment items to allieviate boredom the opportunity for electronic content written by citizen journalists, and the odd professional blogger, to get disseminated to a wide audience is higher if the tagging is in a place where people have to wait.

Leaflets, magazines and books litter a typical clinic waitig room. Soon people will be able to search for local blogs from the proctologist or gynaecologicalist. Or they might want to read what services are being cut.

As GPs have more power in commissioning campaigns leafleting local practice waitng rooms makes a lot of sense. It may be even easier in the future to geotag either by a centralised effort using a location database 'mail merge' or by local activists rather than writing to their MP writing a geotagged post at the affected service - the service rather than the adminsatition builiding or the offices of people high in the hierachy - utilising citizen journalists.

Written at the Netroots conference 2010.