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Comment on unpoem #1: flying back from pittsburgh by sixteenvoices

sixteenvoices — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:24:31 +0000

I’m glad somebody finally gets it. Definitely pop me the course materials - I’m getting more and more interested in high-donor FR all the time. Thinking hard about doing a test run - got a tip-off on a good list, which was the cost I was most worried about.

Comment on unpoem #1: flying back from pittsburgh by Gareth Clement

Gareth Clement — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:11:47 +0000

well done, this made me laugh. Will have to download to you on Major donor training i went to recently, personally i rated the course.

Comment on the “new media” press release (actually jolly good) by you put cover letters on your CVs… so why no pitch on your release? « sixteenvoices

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:13:11 +0000

[...] you’re interested, you can check out a previous post on the new media press release for, er, a new way of doing press [...]

Comment on Horse-trading and instability in Communist Czechoslovakia by Paul

Paul — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:49:00 +0000

My thought is more about the difference between regime-change in the UK, for example, and in 1989 in Czechoslovakia. The latter seems illustrative of a latent and extreme instability - the former is smooth. The question is why this is so - especially given that there is a comparably-sized disenfranchised and alienated population in both regimes.

Obviously, the answer isn’t just that some people went out into the streets. It’s complex - but I have a feeling that a horse-trading type of social contract may have some role to play in the political instability.

Something must feed (and allow) revolution. Whatever it is, it’s not present in the UK. What is that thing? (Or many things, really).

Comment on Horse-trading and instability in Communist Czechoslovakia by Ales

Ales — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:48:00 +0000

Hi, interesting idea, but the fall of the communists was based on the different reasons, not that 10% or less or more people started do something against regime.

Comment on It’s too easy to control journalists - so we need to end media monopolies by Paul

Paul — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:49:00 +0000

I’m not sure that social networks can break the media monopolies - if anyone can do that, it’ll be the bloggers. And they won’t either, because I’m sure there’s still demand for news services, simply because being your own editor for news is such a hassle. Mass media will have to change its business model (let’s hope they don’t do it by wrecking net neutrality) to become profitable again, but I expect that to happen.

Comment on It’s too easy to control journalists - so we need to end media monopolies by bblfish

bblfish — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:56:00 +0000

This is one of the main issues dealt with by Yochai Benkler’s “The Wealth of Networks” available online (click). Here he shows how the internet, blogging and various tools of distributed information are loosening the stranglehold of the monopolists. Of course, they will try to get their grip back, by monopising social networking sites, but that could be difficult to do.

Comment on A bad reason for normative postmodernism by bblfish

bblfish — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:19:00 +0000

Thanks for that overview. I have not read those philosophers yet, but this does help get an idea of the debate.