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A New Group Blog for Welsh Politics ?
This is an idea for a new non-partisan (or cross-party) group blog to cover Welsh Politics.
Most people know that I have been running a blog aggregator (politics-wales.co.uk) for a couple of years, with a combined Welsh Politics news feed at feeds.feedburner.com/politics-wales.
At present the site has a problem in that it has been auto-hacked through a weakness in the version of Wordpress used. I can clear it out, but it will take a full day to rebuild the site in another, clean, account. I can build a brand new blog in less time than that.
I am wondering if now - 1 year before a General Election - is a suitable time to move the politics-wales site over from being a pure aggregator to being a political group blog about Welsh Politics, since I can build one of those just as easily. This seems to me to be a gap in the market in commentary on Welsh Politics.
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TheyWorkForYou.com overhauled by MySociety: Extends back to 1935
MySociety, the non-profit organisation lead by Tom Steinberg, has redesigned their TheyWorkforYou.com website with data about UK Parliamentary politics.
The site provides easily accessible records of the UK Parliamentary process, and now contains data going back to 1935.
Political anoraks are going to rub their hands in anticipation, and probably lose the entire weekend to anoractivities (sorry).
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TheyWorkForYou.com overhauled by MySociety: Extends back to 1935
Who wrote Lord Mandelson’s “Reasons for Not Selling the Post Office” ?
Recently the Cardinal Baron Lord Mandelson, Viceroy of somewhere very long and difficult to remember, has give us a whole quiverful of reasons for not selling off the Post Office, then inspected them and put them back in his quiver and tried another one to see if it works.
I was wondering where this all came from, and then I had a break.
This is the transcript of a tape from a special spy camera installed near Regent’s Park in London, just in case a certain vehement Australian Cricket supporter notorious for violence should become unruly during the Ashes this summer.
In fact it caught (and recorded) an entirely different character engaging in nefarious activities. Step forward … Lord Mandelbrot.
Lord Mandelbrot of Super-Cali-Fragil-istic-espi-ali-docious, visiting the Marsupial Enclosure
Hi Skip, do you remember me from 1994, when I needed advice?
Skippy XVIII
tchk tchk tchk
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Who wrote Lord Mandelson’s “Reasons for Not Selling the Post Office” ?
The Plight of Pleasley Hill
Pleasley Hill is a small community near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. Historically it has been “ignored” (that is probably the best word).
Recently one members of the community, Mark Jones, started using a simple Wordpress.com blog called “Plight of Pleasley Hill” to draw attention to the community’s need.
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Gay Iranians and the ‘Green Revolution’
Gays have been part of the street protests in Iran - because they have everything to win and everything to lose
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Lord Mandelson is losing his touch: his smokescreens used to HIDE the facts
> Most men have thinning hair as they get older. For Lord Mandy Mandelbrot, it is his smokescreens that are becoming more transparent.
This week Lord Mandelbrot proclaimed that the reason why he was having to delay Post-Office Privatisation (again) was that there was insufficient Parliamentary time available:
The sale of a 30% stake in the Royal Mail was due to go to parliament before the summer recess but the business secretary said the legislation was being “jostled for space” and will happen “later”.
This is a smokescreen, and Lord Mandelbrot is losing his touch.
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Lord Mandelson is losing his touch: his smokescreens used to HIDE the facts
Twitter vs RSS is a false dichotomy. Can we be sensible? Please?
There’s an annoying, and in my opinion rather uninformed, post over at the Online Journalism Blog, “Newspapers, turn off your RSS feeds“, where Malcolm Coles argues from Google Reader figures that newspapers should withdraw their reader-level RSS feeds and use them as an information provider for external service providers, switching their readers to Twitter.
I’ll address of few of his points.
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Twitter vs RSS is a false dichotomy. Can we be sensible? Please?
