Comments on: Twitterers claim victory over loaded Daily Mail gypsy poll

By: I have little to add, but… « BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog

I have little to add, but… « BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:17:39 +0000

[...] in general has been giving the inky press a bloody nose for some weeks – think about campaigns to skew biased newspaper polls or the continual outing of outright lies by Badscience and the like. The whole Jan Moir/Stephen [...]

By: Twitter Gives Daily Mail A Stupid Answer To Its Stupid Question | Gadget-reviewz

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:58:23 +0000

[...] Via – Journalism.co.uk [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:36:57 +0000

I think you’ll find that reddit had a hand in that one as well.

By: The Daily Mail to stop moderating comments, so how should they display comments?

The Daily Mail to stop moderating comments, so how should they display comments? — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:28:39 +0000

[...] a track record of running polls as ridiculous as “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue?” The Daily Mail now run the risk of having a “left of centre” community of commenters [...]

By: Why Metatrend analysis?

Why Metatrend analysis? — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:23:11 +0000

[...] tell you the truth – because of embarrassment, malice or any of a number of other reasons. Gaming surveys has even become popular as a form of subversive act. The best possible example of this problem are [...]

By: Cyberman

Cyberman — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:48:26 +0000

This would never have happened under the Tories.

By: Tales of the unexpected « The Martin Cloake blog

Tales of the unexpected « The Martin Cloake blog — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:29:30 +0000

[...] it is at operating within new media than everyone else. A few days before it had gleefully reported how the web community had scuppered a particularly obnoxious Daily Mail poll (and I’ll confess to enjoying that too), now it was on a receiving end of something [...]

By: Daily Mail gypsy/NHS poll on The Now Show | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Daily Mail gypsy/NHS poll on The Now Show | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:13:42 +0000

[...] On Saturday June 20 Journalism.co.uk’s John Thompson reported: “The UK-based Mail Online was forced to shut down one of its online polls yesterday after a concerted campaign by Twitter users and, Journalism.co.uk can reveal, UK-based psychologists, nearly brought their servers to a halt with an overwhelming ‘yes’ vote.” [...]

By: ThePickards » #LocalGovCamp (Session 4 – Crowdsourcing Public Policy)

ThePickards » #LocalGovCamp (Session 4 – Crowdsourcing Public Policy) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:22:13 +0000

[...] Journalism.co.uk [...]

By: BNP and EHRC in acronym-wrestling competition « project-sheffield

BNP and EHRC in acronym-wrestling competition « project-sheffield — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:51:04 +0000

[...] down for jobs heaves into view and I’m reminded at this point of what happened to the Daily Mail’s poll about gipsies last [...]