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The gap between blogger and politician…

06.24.2010 · Posted in Media

This interview with Mickey Kaus is fascinating (currently freely accessible), not least for what he says towards the end about the difference between being a blogger (ie, a hurler on the ditch) and candidate for the US Senate… “Your blogger’s skin is not thick enough…” and the role of money that comes into play (“multimillionaires ...

Tory digi guru converts to civil servant role…

06.24.2010 · Posted in Blogosphere, Britain, Media

As Guido notes, the Conservative’s in-house digi-guru Rishi Saha has been appointed as a civil servant in a “to-be-merged Downing Street and Cabinet Office online team as Deputy Director of Communications”. He’s the one who curated the ‘Blue Blog’, the party’s first step into the often boisterous world of the blogosphere… Guido appends this note: ...

Review: The Telling Year

02.21.2008 · Posted in Journalism, NorthernIreland, Politics

Northern Ireland is no longer the compelling reading it once was. With the sublimation of its more fundamentalist elements into a nascent parliamentary democracy, the working out of big politics has left the streets. It is now more conducive to work out difficulties within the smoke filled offices of the First and Deputy First Minsters, ...

Brassneck: blogging at the Telegraph…

09.24.2007 · Posted in Journalism, Media

I’ve just started a companion blog to Slugger at the Daily Telegraph: Brassneck. The idea is to try take a similarly dispassionate view of British and international politics, and try to get a view of what’s going on underneath the headlines. the blog is notionally after Brass Crosby a former Lord Mayor of London, who ...

Brassneck: blogging at the Telegraph…

09.24.2007 · Posted in Journalism, Media

I’ve just started a companion blog to Slugger at the Daily Telegraph: Brassneck. The idea is to try take a similarly dispassionate view of British and international politics, and try to get a view of what’s going on underneath the headlines. the blog is notionally after Brass Crosby a former Lord Mayor of London, who ...

Why a blog is like a pub…

07.04.2007 · Posted in Blogosphere, Media

I was up in London last night co-hosting a session with London based colleague Paul Evans: we’re collaborating on a couple of projects. This pub session was to help us progress with a policy focused site we’re working on by gathering criticism from a small group of experts/enthusiasts for constructive civic engagement with government. Earlier ...

Got to be Gordon meme

06.25.2007 · Posted in Blogosphere, Britain, Media, Politics

Apparently I’ve been tagged twice for this blog meme idea started by Matt Wardman, so you can see my thoughts on Labour’s new leader below the fold. I’ve deliberately avoided foreign policy, and not laboured exclusively on his handling of the economy. I’ve been tagged by Anthony over at OpenDemocracy, so here’s my late offering: ...

On a weak and under nourished lobby…

06.18.2007 · Posted in Government, Journalism, Media, Politics

Interesting to see how things shift in a short time ago. A year ago, Guido was getting attacked for (admittedly amongst other things) his attacks on the lobby system at Westminster. Now the venerable Peter Wilby is taking up Guido’s argument with a will. In parts it chimes heavily with my own CiF piece earlier ...

On a weak and under nourished lobby…

06.18.2007 · Posted in Government, Journalism, Media, Politics

Interesting to see how things shift in a short time ago. A year ago, Guido was getting attacked for (admittedly amongst other things) his attacks on the lobby system at Westminster. Now the venerable Peter Wilby is taking up Guido’s argument with a will. In parts it chimes heavily with my own CiF piece earlier ...