A number of MP\u2019s are blogging, and quite rightly so \u2013 it\u2019s a great way to get a connection back to your constituents without anyone getting in the way (the Press, the Whips Office, or your local constituency party), but it carries a danger that could bite some users in the tail. Let me show the problem. <\/p>\n
It looks like Kerry McCarthy (www.kerrymccarthymp.org\/<\/a>) has a problem, while Mark Lazarowicz (www.marklazarowicz.org.uk<\/a>) doesn\u2019t. Those using Twitter may also have the same problem. Andy Reed (@andyreedmp<\/a>) has it, but Jo Swinson (@joswinson<\/a>) doesn\u2019t<\/p>\n Spotted it yet?<\/p>\n It\u2019s the \u201cMP\u201d bit. You see, once a general election is called, part of the deal is that any Members of Parliament looses their status, and can no longer be called, filed, stamped, indexed or deep linked<\/em> using the MP moniker.<\/p>\n I wonder just how well these Web 2.0 Engaged MP\u2019s are ready to change their websites, templates, links, references and archived history in their online world? Or are their IT people ready to bill them for a lot of overtime?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A number of MP\u2019s are blogging, and quite rightly so \u2013 it\u2019s a great way to get a connection back to your constituents without anyone getting in the way (the Press, the Whips Office, or your local constituency party), but it carries a danger that could bite some users in the tail. Let me show the problem. It looks like Kerry McCarthy (www.kerrymccarthymp.org\/) has a problem, while Mark Lazarowicz (www.marklazarowicz.org.uk) doesn\u2019t. Those using Twitter may also have the same problem. Andy Reed (@andyreedmp) has it, but Jo Swinson (@joswinson) doesn\u2019t Spotted it yet? It\u2019s the \u201cMP\u201d bit. You see, once<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[54,52],"tags":[402,885,658,5503,884,883],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-web-2point0","tag-archive","tag-deep-linking","tag-mp","tag-politics","tag-redirection","tag-website"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-vE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}