Commentariat

Blog for commentariat.org.uk

The most succinct word association for the Commentariat I have come across:

back-channel media.

A Freudian slip with more than a grain of truth.

The aim of the site is to see how far the highly expensive paid for services for monitoring and analysing “comment” can be put together without charging any significant money.
So I’m starting an experiment with sending out a Daily Summary email of the Comment and Opinion from different publications. I’d like to do a full [...]

This is an experimental site to help you monitor what the various members of the “Commentariat” are saying easily.
The aim of the site is to see how far the highly expensive paid for services for monitoring and analysing “comment” can be put together without charging any significant money.
Background
A few days ago I wrote about [...]

Yesterday I had a look at Monitoring the Commentariat for free. Iain Dale has translated that as:

“Matt Wardman thinks he can put Editorial Intelligence out of business.”

Now there’s another challenge. In the spirit of enquiry and to encourage enterprise (!) I thought I’d do a quick minute rundown of Editorial Intelligence’s services and a few of their potential free competitors.

Yesterday I said in passing that I thought that it may now be possible to deliver much of the value added by subscription services designed to help organisations “get to grips” with the published commentary relatively easily - based on the insight that the supply of news and comment is no longer an expensive commodity. I have had a go myself today, and this article is to introduce the results.