New Labour cranks its Web 2.0 offerings up a notch

As well as the long-standing Bloggers4Labour site, there is now a Digg-style site called Let's Talk Labour where users submit Labour related posts which are then voted on by readers. The numbers of votes help push widely read articles to the top of the list. Democracy in action, I suppose! I have seen a few referrals from Let's Talk Labour in my site stats but didn't realise just how new the project was.

Then Stuart Bruce blogs about the addition of RSS Feeds to Labour's homepage. You can subscribe to feeds from the site's 'news' and 'speeches' pages. This is a start for Labour, but there's a long way to go to catch up with the Tories' 33 feeds offered across a range of policy areas. that said, the Lib Dems only seem to offer a feed for their news page... if you can find it!

And of course there's the very recent launch of LabourHome site designd to re-engage with the party's membership. There's a pretty comprehensive explanation about the site at Bloggers4Labour posted by the site's inventor and administrator, Alex 'Recess Monkey' Hilton.