on September 22, 2007
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Disturbing developments over at Bloggerheads, where Tim Ireland’s blog is “off-air” – forced out of business thanks to the bullying of an Uzbek billionaire and his lawyers.
The quote comes from a standout analysis by Mr Eugenides which is here
Further details of the Uzbek businessman attempting to buy large parts of Arsenal FC are also available at Chicken Yogurt and Poldraw.
The caricature of the amazingly powerful Mr Usmanov is made in support of the people who have been so thoroughly lawyered. The partial quote belongs to George Orwell.
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Sunny Hundal of Pickled Politics explains the background to the story on mainstream media. Link from Peter Black
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Further interest in the Alisher Usmanov v bloggers case. Reported by Robin Hammann
on September 20, 2007
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Liberal Democrat leader Ming Campbell made his set piece conference speech today and the Channel 4 News team and I have tried to analyse it. There’s also an excellent verbal round-up of what he said in Factcheck. Published above and here.
on September 19, 2007
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‘Tis the season for seaside drawings and laughing at Ming Campbell. Image drawn for the Local Government Association.
on September 17, 2007
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It’s very busy this week, but I shall have something to show for it soon…
In the meantime, you might want to keep an eye on National Service, a public-spirited digital service from Tim Ireland, Justin McKeating and Clive Summerfield. If previous form is anything to go by, it won’t be dull and it will be, in National Power’s, Peter Purves-ese, EN-lightening…
on September 16, 2007
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The former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Alan Greenspan, for 18 years probably the second most-powerful man on the planet,* admits what the whole world knew to be true. The invasion of Iraq was really about control of oil supplies.
Link from The Times.
* after Dick Cheney.
on September 14, 2007
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I never feel like I need an excuse to watch this fantastic piece of visual story-telling again…kudos to the director, Professor Wesch
on September 12, 2007
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Google recently signed business deals with four major providers of information to newspapers all around the globe.
This has, potentially, very major implications for all existing print media. The news gathered at source does not have to go through the existing media structures to get to market (the readers). Why would anyone bother to read a paper when you can get the unfiltered content direct from your contact with a search engine?
Hat-tip to Matthew Ingram who writes about it here
on September 11, 2007
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A hat-tip to Roy Greenslade
on September 10, 2007
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Who’d be a four-star American general asked to lay the political groundwork for a PR face-saving back on the homefront? Published above and here.
There are some enlightening statistics about the war in Iraq, four years after the invasion and toppling of Saddam Hussein, here.
