Carnival on Modern Liberty: The Wardman Wire edition. 20/2/2009
I didn’t realise what I was taking on when I volunteered for the Carnival of Modern Liberty. The posts have been coming in all week like bills from British Gas, and the doormat is completely buried.
So, here we go, in a slightly less animated style than Jennie last week.
[Update: I've cross-posted this, and articles linked are getting a couple of extra trackbacks. Sorry.]
The Convention on Modern Liberty
Who should speak at the liberty bloggers event? posted at Liberal Conspiracy.
Ron Broxted – The Convention on Modern Liberty. posted at LiveJournal.
Leading article: Fight for our liberties – Leading Articles, Opinion – The Independent posted at The Independent.
Modern Liberty posted at Their Contempt For You Is Total.
Little Man in a Toque » Blog Archive » Discussion piece: The Convention on Modern Liberty posted at Little Man in a Toque.
Timothy Garton Ash: Liberty in Britain is facing death by a thousand cuts. We can fight back | Comment is free | The Guardian posted at Comment is Free.
Stuart Winton presents The liberty paradox posted at Planet Politics.
Keeping your Mind Free
What Freedom Means to Me posted at Philosophy Forums.
Be Mass Media Free posted at we overstep.
Remembering what Mr Gordon said about being British.
Centralised Power
Guy Herbert: Another day, another Home Office power-grab | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk posted at Comment is Free.
Control of Dissent
Seumas Milne: According to the UK government, we are all extremists now | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk posted at Comment is Free.
Data and Databases
EU Data Retention Directive endangers democracy | open Democracy News Analysis posted at open Democracy News Analysis – Comments.
For *all* parents posted at Sometimes It’s Peaceful.
White Elephants are Expensive
The cost of the surveillance state posted at Peter Black AM.
State surveillance to cost billions posted at Emergency Services News.
Police and the Public
Sleepwalking towards a police state. posted at Obsolete.
Why can’t we take pictures of policemen? posted at the Telegraph by Philip Johnston.
Poor at mind reading? Snap a copper and get ten years in the slammer posted at calm, almost too calm.
ID Cards
The next six groups to get ID cards? posted at Liberal Democrat Voice.
Union refutes claim that airport workers now back ID cards – vnunet.com posted at The most recent News from VNU Business Publications.
Things that should be easy to fix
Henry Porter: MPs fiddle while parliamentary democracy burns | Comment is free | The Observer posted at Comment is Free.
Contrarians and Counterpoints
Irked Stonewall presents The Great Slavery Excuse posted at Why I Loathe.
Money Free World posted at we overstep.
CoML: Animal Rights and odd bedfellows posted at Though Cowards Flinch.
I’m not going to the Convention on Modern Liberty posted at donpaskini.
Responding to the Convention backlash posted at Liberal Conspiracy.
International
Employee Free Choice Act: An Insult to American Workers posted at Political Castaway Blog: Broadcasting Conservatism to Rescue America.
Obama Embraces the Bush/Cheney Unitary Executive. Again and again and again. posted at Divided We Stand United We Fall.
A bit of the other
Refugees flock to Guardian’s Liberty Central posted at Olly’s Onions.
And things that you can do…
Who Knows What About You? 25 Free Tools to Find Out posted at e-Justice Blog.
Search engine satire is currently easy on Youtube (Example: “Carter-Ruck“, also Google). Fun with Simpson’s clips and a world without libel lawyers.
Finally, I’m building resource pages of bloggers sacked because of their blogs, harrassed photographers, threatened writers and published Cease and Desist letters. Can you help?
Roll up for next week
On the eve of the Convention on Modern Liberty events, the next Festival of Modern Liberty will be hosted at Liberal Conspiracy.
James Graham is looking for people willing to host the Carnival in the future. Email him at modernliberty@quaequam.net.
Phew.
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When Jennie said she’d volunteered to do this, I told her she was mad, yes, you get a lot of incoming links and traffic, but is the workload worth it?
Anyway, thanks for doing it, one quibble/question.
Why is a blogspot powered blog listed as “posted at BLOGNAME” while a Livejournal powered blog “posted at Livejournal”? LJ is a blogging platform same as any other, and it’s significantly better than Blogger and cheaper than Typepad et al. That line should read “posted at Ron Broxted”, surely?
(LJ was horribly underrated and ignored by a lot of “mainstream” bloggers for far too long, Jennie and I are consciously working to correct that, now that John Rentoul and others are blogging there to constantly mislabel stuff does it a disservice, especially given the increased power it’s getting at the moment)
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>When Jennie said she’d volunteered to do this, I told her she was mad, yes, you get a lot of incoming links and traffic, but is the workload worth it?
I was a bit taken aback. But the system was quite quick – it only took an hour. For comparison, this one took a whole day.
>Why is a blogspot powered blog listed as “posted at BLOGNAME” while a Livejournal powered blog “posted at Livejournal”? LJ is a blogging platform same as any other, and it’s significantly better than Blogger and cheaper than Typepad et al. That line should read “posted at Ron Broxted”, surely?
It came in as “posted at Livejournal”, with the link to the Top Level domain, in addition to the link to the article itself.
I’m not sure whether that is the result of the Blog Carnival site snooping the source, or a field set by the submitter.
You have a point, but Blog Carnival gives you a set of pieces of html in emails, and I didn’t change the links on any of them.
Matt
Ah, fair enough, if it’s the fault of the software or the submitter then I’ll be picky with someone else. I might have a look at whatever’s doing the sniffing and figure out if it is a problem at LJs end, in which case they ought to change it.
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