Hello there! as Bill Bailey said in Black Books, long time no speaky! I haven’t been very good at multitasking these days. My best mate came down to visit us in London the past two weeks, I haven’t seen him in five years so catching up with him has been my main activity lately. On [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Stressful times
Posted in US, tagged Obama, US on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A nightmare on…Downing Street!
Posted in Labour, tagged Gordon Brown on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to a survey by hotel chain Travelodge Gordon Brown ranks third in the list of celebrities that most often appear in Britons’ nightmares.
The list is topped by Amy Winehouse and Marilyn Manson (tough two to beat I’ll admit).
Mahmud Darwish (1942-2008)
Posted in Arts on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stay at home Saturday reading
Posted in Arts, Web 2.0, tagged Arts, Web 2.0 on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Brilliant post by Charlie Beckett in defense of ‘amateur’ creativity in the face of professional journalists’ patronising attitude to the blogosphere. Essential reading.
Friday round-up
Posted in US, Video, Web 2.0, tagged ads, McCain, Obama, US, Video, Web 2.0 on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well the weekend is upon us. Today it’s been an extremely unproductive day. I have watched most of the Olympics Inauguration Ceremony (really really impressive), failed to finish off the methodology section of my dissertation and not much inspiration for blogging today either. But just a quick post with a couple of interesting things I [...]
The government and web 2.0
Posted in Web 2.0, tagged Dizzy, Web 2.0 on August 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I just found out through Dizzy that No. 10 plans to launch a TV channel. It certainly does no harm if it helps to provide greater transparency, although I presume it won’t be too much fun to watch either. But the ‘funny’ thing Dizzy has found out is that their announcement wasn’t followed by taking [...]
New Obama video
Posted in US, Video, tagged ads, McCain, Obama, US, Video on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good work on the McSame front from Obama’s camp, message discipline is key in a race where both candidates’s political profiles haven’t yet been fully defined in the mind of the electorate.
Hat tip from TOK.
UPDATE: OK, so Paris Hilton isn’t precisely part of my top five all times favourite celebrities. But [...]
Slogans done ‘right’
Posted in US, tagged McCain, Obama, US on August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Guido Fawkes seems to think that Barack Obama is in trouble because The Huffington Post seems to be less happy with Obama today than it was a couple of months ago during primary season. He even predicts his candidacy will unravel by November… well if Obama is in trouble, what do you call these two [...]
Labour and web 2.0- a new home for the netroots
Posted in Labour, Web 2.0, tagged Labour, Web 2.0 on August 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have blogged before (here and here) about the need for Labour to promote its web 2.0 operation more agressively. Although the UK is still well behind the US in terms of online campaigning, eventually political internet mobilisation will become crucial here as well.
Yesterday I came across Labour Outlook, a nice looking site that aims [...]
Gove’s moral crusade
Posted in Tories, tagged Tories on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So Michael Gove is outraged at the ‘instant-hit hedonism’ of Zoo and Nuts. They have become part of the Tories’ ‘axis of evil’ of family breakdown… now my question is, how about page 3 girls in The Sun? After all is the most read daily newspaper in the country, lying in millions of cafes, barber [...]
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