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Day: December 7, 2008

  • Social bookmarking-a-go-go

    You’ll have noticed that I’ve got rather carried away with social bookmarking “vote” buttons (to the right if you are reading the blog at source). Why? Well, LibDig has been a small success but I’m keen to explore how to what extent I can use these things to widen my blogs’ reach. I started experimenting…

  • Lord Jacobs becomes rightwingers’ new poster child

    The Times reports that Lord Jacobs has quit the party to sit as a crossbencher on the grounds that the party’s position on tax does not include tax cuts for the rich, paid for (if Lord Rennard is to be believed) by a 6p hike in NIC. Despite Sam Coates’ best attempts to dress this…

  • Why the green movement fails [ADDENDUM]

    I went on the National Climate March yesterday, as those who read my tweets will be painfully aware. The march itself was the usual festive fun, although not well attended (the organisers say 10,000 people attended, the police say 5,000 – by my own estimate it was somewhere between the two): (credit: Helen Duffett @…

  • The Tories’ “totally non-relevant” TV slot

    Lib Dem Voice point to a Liverpool Daily Post story about a Tory PPB. A SOUTHPORT builder who was tagged the Tories’ version of “Joe the Plumber” was last night at the centre of a major political row. Shane Prescott starred in the Conservative party broadcast on Thursday, claiming his business had struggled because of…