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Category: Politics

  • A weekend roundup

    One of the neat features of the FeedDemon RSS aggregator is how easy it is to manipulate the news and information that you subscribe to. For example, highlighting items of interest for later attention, such as blogging about them. You…

  • No painless switching to Open Office

    The French parliament has said ‘au revoir’ to Microsoft, according to a Yahoo News report: […] Starting [next June], French deputies will use desktops and servers running Linux, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, and OpenOffice.org, a free open-source alternative to Microsoft’s…

  • Steelworkers battle with Goodyear moves to YouTube

    The Wall Street Journal reports today on a long-running labour dispute in the US between the United Steelworkers union and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. What makes this dispute of special interest from the communication point of view is…

  • Al Jazeera launches in English

    Arab TV network Al Jazeera launched an English-language service yesterday that, inevitably, attracted criticisms in the US and elsewhere where some see the station purely as a mouthpiece for Osama Bin Laden. The station has consistently denied any such linkage,…

  • Sharing with Edelman and Technorati

    It’s been over 20 years since I was last inside Claridge’s Hotel in London, so a visit there yesterday morning provoked a little bit of nostalgia. Claridge’s was the venue for a gathering of “influential members of the UK ‘blogerati’…