Here’s a snatch from Goldsmith’s epitaph for Burke, quoted in this piece from Christopher Lydon in conversation with David Bromwich: Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow’d his mind, And to party gave up what was meant ...
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Charlie Beckett notes that all this capacity to dig down in depth into other news bases does not mean that somehow there is a new, internet-based global market for news… It’s sort of borne out by this visualisation from the PDF EU event in Barcelona of the patterns in online conversation which take place in ...
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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 ...
On Slugger, we’re currently in the process of packing down a tight set of rules which we hope to share with other political blogs who are keen on promoting civil engagement between their commenters. Top of the list of things we hope to capture is a clearer understanding of the difference between a breach of ...
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: ...
H/T to Mark Pack for his direct to a piece by Steven Pinker in the New York Times: …the constant arrival of information packets can be distracting or addictive, especially to people with attention deficit disorder. But distraction is not a new phenomenon. The solution is not to bemoan technology but to develop strategies of ...
I’ve been asked to give the keynote speech at the Parnell Summer School in Avondale, Wicklow this year on Sunday 8th August. Tim Pat Coogan is to open the event and Joe Duffy is chairing the opening discussion.. ...