Category Archives: Blogging

Posts in category: "Blogging":

Perspective

19Apr09 – 10:58

YouTube phenomenon Dan Hannan, a man who became famous for insulting Gordon Brown to his face - 2.2 million views.
YouTube phenomenon Susan Boyle, a woman who became famous for singing better than Simon Cowell would have expected based on her appearance - 29.5 million views.
None of which is to demean in any way the importance [...]

By ZaNuLieBore | Comments (0)

What smeargate tells us about Labour’s relations with the press

17Apr09 – 19:04

Labour’s recent online ‘smeargate’ trouncing has reinforced the widespread perception that the UK Labour Party has failed to really get the blogosphere in the way that some Conservatives do.
The crime that Damian McBride stands convicted of is that he planned to conduct a campaign of personal smears against senior Conservatives. This from Guido Fawkes – [...]

By Paul Evans | Also posted in Labour, Newspapers | Tagged , | Comments (0)

On blogging and the black arts of the spin doctor

13Apr09 – 23:54

That New Labour 'manages the news' has been a constant refrain, and complaint, since 1997. I think I recall Polly Toynbee once pointing out what I've always thought about this - which was to say, in effect, yes - but they're really really shit at it, aren't they?
I was reminded of this whilst reading [...]

By Shuggy | Also posted in Labour, Parliament, Tories | Comments (5)

Power to the (wrong) people

07Mar09 – 00:57

Web 2.0? Oh that! It made the rich even more powerful than they were beforehand! Via DemSoc.

By Paul Evans | Tagged | Comments (0)

Arse of the day

25Feb09 – 18:42

Iain Dale on Twitter:

Terrible news about David Cameron's son. Have media on the phone asking me to do interviews. What should I do? Would welcome advice from you

By ZaNuLieBore | Also posted in Tories | Comments (0)

He would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids

24Feb09 – 20:30

Iain Martin - a man who, I cannot emphasise strongly enough, is employed as a political journalist by a national broadsheet newspaper - has the following to say about the Prime Minister's political project:
Gordon Brown, on the other hand, knew exactly what he wanted to do: under the cover of pro-market rhetoric, to massively increase [...]

By ZaNuLieBore | Also posted in Churnalism, Clarksonism, Tories | Tagged | Comments (0)

Feature request

20Feb09 – 11:02

Slugger O'Toole is planning a revamp, and Mick has asked the readers what they want it to include. One of the commenters has made a feature request that could work in a lot of places. Ask these lot....

By Paul Evans | Tagged | Comments (0)