Many people do. It took a while, but I have finally caught up with Rickrolling. Nick Lowe had the last word to say on this subject, as on most others:
Many people do. It took a while, but I have finally caught up with Rickrolling. Nick Lowe had the last word to say on this subject, as on most others:
As world financial markets reel, which article tops the list of Indy website Most Read pieces? Not surprisingly the one with this headline: Ex-Mr Gay UK ‘cooked and ate sex partner’ As a metaphor for dogger-eats-dogger rampant capitalism, that story’s hard to beat?
True enough. But maybe we might have expected rather more of the Economist? Is the problem that standards are slipping even at this level of supposedly good journalism? Or that people claiming to be serious are no longer aware of what standards actually are?
Should film promoters cite only (or mainly) the views of recognised film critics when trying to publicise a film? Or should they use the views of bloggers and the general public? "There is a fear that it could spell the end of the critic. I’m hoping that it will highlight […]
While doing some Googling on the subject of Diplomatic Leaks for a forthcoming article, I found this: Have you ever wanted to spy on a foreign government? The DEranged Security website published the addresses and passwords of 100 email accounts from embassies and governments around the world. Those nations involved […]
Just when I thought that there was nothing new to say on the subject of Leaked Ambassadors, along come two of them. First, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles is said to have described the Western mission in Afghanistan as ‘doomed‘. The source? A French diplomatic telegram leaked in Paris, said to be […]
Welcome Britblog Roundup 189 Visitors Here is a summary of the European Parliament’s latest pronouncement on the media (including bloggers). You’ll recall the original pernicious idea to ‘validate’ bloggers. The full text of the ghastly resolution – 4352 words long – is here. It is an exemplary Liberal Fascist document. […]
The article accompanying the Total Politics UK Political Blogs Top 50 argues that "the right-of-centre hegemony, which has dominated the UK blogosphere for several years, seems to be at an end". Why? Because, according to TP, over half the top 500 political blogs incline to the left. That’s as maybe. Pity so […]
Greetings Britblog Rounduppers. Number 187 hosted by Liberal England is here. It links to my post on European Parliament instincts to ‘validate’ bloggers: Charles Crawford offers a voice of sanity here: Above all there is a way to ‘validate’ the best bloggers. It’s called the marketplace, millions of judgements by […]
If you are in a political race, you want to exploit whatever tendency your opponent’s supporters have towards craziness. Since the crazier your opponent’s noisiest fans behave, the higher the chances that neutrals may start to wonder if your opponent is just a bit crazy too, and so tend towards […]
