Category Archives: Politics

Solitaire, social media and consumer action

How do you get action over poor property management service? Use social media tools of course. Want an example where this has worked? Sure, go to TheTruthAbout: Solitaire & Peverel Property Management where people are using online tools from a purpose built website, presence on Facebook, and communication through RSS feeds, through to a No [...]

Tim Robbins on Activism in Hollywood from the 1930s to the Present

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Startups and amplified individuals

Looking forward to We20 in Leicester on Saturday, meeting people who want to make the city a better place to live and work!
I’m taking this great BusinessWeek piece about creating jobs by supporting start-ups in the US to the meeting in the town hall, and hope to get the chance to discussĀ  its relevance to [...]

Labour Party supporters ethic of progressive blogging

Interesting statement of ethics by pro-Labour bloggers setting out their ethic which informs their blogging. It includes this call to Government to seeĀ online engagement as a cultural change worth engaging with. Maybe a little blogging training would go along way in providingĀ Ministers with the tools for the job?
We believe that attempts to transfer ā€˜command and [...]

On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information?

I saw this today:
“Zuckerberg is saying, ā€œTrust us.ā€ But it is difficult to trust a company that is stripping users of rights they’ve become accustomed to, even if hardly any of them ever actually asserted those rights in practice”. And did this:
Not surprising in one way as their backed by some big money that need [...]

How to write a killer report

PDF of the rogue UK housing minister document, in the process detailing how to best write a killer report from Jon Moon, reproduced in all its ‘bouncy’ bullet-point glory:
In May 2008, Gordon Brown’s housing minister, Caroline Flint, exposed the Government’s fears over the poor state of the housing market when she accidentally let photographers glimpse [...]

Gordon Brown on the Politics Show

PM Gordon Brown claimed on the BBC Politics Show today that the global credit crunch was not forseeable. The structures to protect against bank breakdown were only designed for individual bank failure like the UK’s Northern Rock. Hmm, I thought, but haven’t we been told about the ‘global economy’ for years now, and its [...]

New President, New Website

Loved this joke from the Onion on Obama’s new web strategy. More fun though less enlightening than the piece in Wired Magazine.
WhiteHouse.gov, the official website of the president and vice president, was relaunched Tuesday and includes links to Obama’s weekly video address and a blog. What do you think?

Mark Judson, Accounting Clerk
“I question the [...]

LabourList launches today

Thanks to Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy I came across the new LabourList blog which launches today. It also has help on starting your own blog which is great.
Welcome to LabourList, the must read online forum for Labour minded people to come together to share news and views and, hopefully, also have a laugh.
Over the [...]

David Cameron says bank on me

Conservative leader David Cameron says character and judgement are more important than experience. But experience teaches me that you build character and judgement through experience. Perhaps David thinks that you can’t change one’s essential character and judgement, which if so is a bit pessimistic for my liking (not to mention contrary to my experience).
I also [...]