Blogging the Hill: Garth Turner and the Canadian Parliamentary Blogosphere
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canadian parliamentarian Garth Turner was expelled from the caucus of the 
 governing Conservative Party in 2006. Turner was ousted because comments on 
 his blog allegedly breached caucus confidentiality. While political blogs are 
 mainstream in American politics, the study of Canadian political blogs is in its 
 infancy. This research addresses one aspect of political weblogs: blogging by 
 Canadian parliamentarians through a case study of Garth Turner Unedited. While 
 most current Canadian parliamentarians are online with their own web sites 
 promoting the constituency and party activities, Garth Turner is only one of a few 
 parliamentarians that embrace blogging in its full capacity. The research 
 demonstrates that the blog has become a virtual community for political 
 participation and expression.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it