Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
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No.150 In The Top UK Blogs
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
A quick thank you to everybody who voted for us in the Total Politics Blog Awards. Given that we have only been up and running for a few months, I think an entry at No.150 in the Top UK Blogs section is no mean feat (Old Holborn occupied the same spot last year!). Let's keep up the good work and please keep spreading the word! The truth is back in business...
A Rough Guide To Internet Censhorship
Sunday, 5 July 2009
It's an international business that has great potential for further expansion as recessions deepen and social unrest increases: Wikileaks.
This is how China's answer to GOT responded in February when the State threw up its Golden Shield, the Great Firewall of China, in order to 'sanitize thousands of sites and social networks' - all in the name of harmony, of course:
I suspect we'll soon be hearing a lot more of the word 'harmonisation'. It's already very popular with the EU when it talks about taxes, measurement systems, educational qualifications, crime measurement statistics and so on.
In the UK we have the IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) which, you'll be pleased to hear "operates independently of Government". But, wait a minute, they also say they're "closely supported by the Home Office, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Ministry of Justice as well as working with the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and a number of Parliamentarians, Peers and MEPs who take an interest in our work." They're also partly funded by the EU.
I'm clearly going to have to bring my techie skills up-to-date.
UPDATE: Spyblog picks apart Gordon's UK cyber security - no democratic accountability
MSM & Tories Plays Catch-Up
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Probably the best thing about the upsurge in blogging is being able to read the wide variety of views on offer. For instance, I would never ever be able to find the time to read all the newspapers every day but by having them available to read online is great and I can probably get through them in about an hour and include some foreign press as well. On top of that are the personal politics blogs, mostly written by ordinary people, and those who post comments. It all adds up to a fairly comprehensive overview which you wouldn't get if you just, say, read one newspaper and listened to one tv news channel every day.
Two things stand out and smack you in the face: (1) msm news often seems like history because it's already been covered by independent bloggers; (2) by searching & sifting a blogger can often get much closer to the truth of a matter and so highlight an inherent political bias in an organisation.
Three words have been zipping around the blogs for well over a year now and they are:
It's been a constant theme, at first tentative and bewildered, now accompanied by howls of outrage and advocating retribution on those responsible. Where do you think the cries of treason, cartoons of heads on pikes, witty and obscene videos and mock-ups have come from?
Well, the msm and Cameron's Conservatives have finally picked up on it: However, Team Cameron is deeply worried that Labour is pursuing what one of his aides called a "scorched earth" policy
It's a good article and takes a fairly in-depth look at how Labour are tying the hands of an incoming government.
I find it hard to believe that supposedly-intelligent MPs of all stripes haven't given this thought before. I know the Cons have had their internal problems since 1997 but nevertheless I think they've been weak and lacked the courage necessary to confront the government in any meaningful way.
The Conservatives probably will form the next government and the problems they helped to create as a result of ineffectually challenging Labour's policies will finally be theirs, as they've been ours for many years now.
Cameron, we're watching you and we want to see a true commitment to change together with a Grand Repeal Act of all Labour's lousy laws, directives and regulations in the first month. If you don't listen, it will be more of this:
Two things stand out and smack you in the face: (1) msm news often seems like history because it's already been covered by independent bloggers; (2) by searching & sifting a blogger can often get much closer to the truth of a matter and so highlight an inherent political bias in an organisation.
Three words have been zipping around the blogs for well over a year now and they are:
**Scorched Earth Policy**
It's been a constant theme, at first tentative and bewildered, now accompanied by howls of outrage and advocating retribution on those responsible. Where do you think the cries of treason, cartoons of heads on pikes, witty and obscene videos and mock-ups have come from?
Well, the msm and Cameron's Conservatives have finally picked up on it: However, Team Cameron is deeply worried that Labour is pursuing what one of his aides called a "scorched earth" policy
It's a good article and takes a fairly in-depth look at how Labour are tying the hands of an incoming government.
I find it hard to believe that supposedly-intelligent MPs of all stripes haven't given this thought before. I know the Cons have had their internal problems since 1997 but nevertheless I think they've been weak and lacked the courage necessary to confront the government in any meaningful way.
The Conservatives probably will form the next government and the problems they helped to create as a result of ineffectually challenging Labour's policies will finally be theirs, as they've been ours for many years now.
Cameron, we're watching you and we want to see a true commitment to change together with a Grand Repeal Act of all Labour's lousy laws, directives and regulations in the first month. If you don't listen, it will be more of this:
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