Announcing: Westminster Hubble!

Ladies and gen­tle­men of the blo­gos­phere, I am proud to announce the release of a new web­site. This is what I have been wind­ing up most of my Twit­ter fol­low­ers for the last two months by refer­ring to it only as “Super Secret Project #1″. Its name is West­min­ster Hub­ble.

Westminster Hubble Logo

A joint ven­ture between myself and Chris Cox, West­min­ster Hub­ble helps you stay in touch with your rep­re­sen­ta­tives in Parliament.

Each MP has their own page, which you can nav­i­gate to by search­ing by name, con­stituency or post­code, or by select­ing from a map of the UK or a list of every­body in the data­base. Here’s an exam­ple for one of Westminster’s most tech-savvy, Tom Wat­son.

On each MP’s page, each item of their online pres­ence is listed: their web­site, blog, Twit­ter account, Face­book page, and so on. These are all editable, so that MPs or benev­o­lent users can help keep their page up to date. MP’s pro­files on They­Work­ForYou, the UK Par­lia­ment web­site and the Tele­graph news­pa­per are all auto­mat­i­cally linked to as well, and if they’re on record, the pages also list MPs’ con­stituency addresses and phone numbers.

Each of the online items is rou­tinely checked for updates by West­min­ster Hub­ble, and from them a feed is cre­ated. This feed forms the body of each MP’s page, and is a fil­ter­able list of all that MP’s activ­ity on all the web­sites we know about.

Of course, you can sub­scribe to an RSS feed for an MP too (or even a sin­gle feed for all 650 of them, if you’re that way inclined). Just click the “Sub­scribe” but­ton at the top of any feed.

So if you want a sin­gle feed of your MP’s speeches in Par­lia­ment, blog posts, tweets and YouTube videos, West­min­ster Hub­ble is a new site that will give you just that. If you want a sin­gle page that’ll give you quick access to all their pro­files across the inter­net, we do that too.

Please, spread the word!

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