Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

 

London Election Cinema

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Take a look at the London Election Cinema at londonvids.com. There are a few YouTube videos that are worth watching. It’s being organised by Alex Hilton of Labour Home and Recess Monkey.
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Three brief notes

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Note the First
Tim Ireland of Bloggerheads is wondering what to do next - Murdochwatch or campaigning on libel law reform. I think libel law reform; go over there and speak your peace.
Note the Second
Aaron Heath of Tygerland is pausing his blogging. Go over there and tell him not to pause for too long.
Note the Third
This [...]

 

Liberating old papers

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Professor Erik Ringmar will be on iPM on BBC Radio Four talking about liberating old papers. Do listen as it’s an important one. Partly, it’s about free information being freely available, but some of the things that should be freely available already aren’t. The case in point (as Erik writes in the Times Higher) is [...]

 

The Evening Standard and attack ads

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Hopi Sen has an unofficial attack ad against Boris Johnson. A little bit of photoshopping and we have the front page the Evening Standard would like to run - click on the image to make it larger.

It’s also worth reading Septic Isle’s thoughts on the Standard.
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Under the bridge

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I would like to draw attention to this post about Boris Johnson and astroturf by the Tory Troll. Astroturfing is a neologism to mean using people to pretend to be the grass roots.  Someone from the same IP address commented on this post of mine under two different names; while that is not proof anything, [...]

 

Strapline for the blog of Dave Cole

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

I’m thinking of putting a rotating strapline somewhere at the top of the sidebar. So far, I’ve come up with
‘I’m Dave Cole and I approve this message’
‘Heavily medicated for public safety’
‘There is a non-negligible chance he will end up ruling over us like a king - Matt Sinclair’
‘Contains a source of phenylalanine’
‘Contains small parts’
‘Your message [...]

 

Visitor numbers and all that

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

There has been some discussion of late about who has the most visitors to their blog. I’m sure that I don’t compare to some of the participants in the discussion who, Priapus-like, wave their impressive statistics for all to see.
Google Analytics, Statcounter and the like are, ultimately, hobbyist tools. A website seeking to make [...]

 

Beer diversity

Monday, April 7th, 2008

A problem with the computer (does anyone have any experience of making ATI video cards work with Linux?) means that blogging has been light of late. Anyhow, here are some interesting posts.
Beer diversity and why it’s under threat
Vote Match - London elections If you don’t know who to vote for, this might help
Copying at home [...]

 

Talking to al-Qaeda, revisited

Monday, March 24th, 2008

I wrote here about the risks of drawing comparison between al-Qaeda and the IRA. An article arguing something similar from Henry McDonald is on the Guardian politics blog; I recommend reading it.
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Three years old

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Hard as it may be to believe, my blog is three years old. In fact, three years and three days, as my first post was on March 11th 2005. A lot has happened to me since then.As Lothair I had it, tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis; the times are changing and we change [...]