Category: Politics
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The Iranian president’s blog and devious intent
When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadenijad started a blog last week, it didn’t get an awful lot of meaningful attention in the English-speaking blogosphere. Perhaps it should have, if only to say that here we have the first blog in the…
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The most blogged war
Across the front line between Lebanon and Israel, a Reuters report says, bloggers hiding in bomb shelters and watching from rooftops are trading terrifying experiences, bitter barbs and words of sympathy: The postings on Web logs, online journals, are a…
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The difficulty for politicians of normal, real and authentic
In his keynote address at the Gnomedex tech conference in Seattle on Friday, US senator and highly-seasoned politician John Edwards had this to say about politicans’ polish in an age of informality: […] “The problem is that we’re so trained…
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Perplexing Blair op-ed piece in Guardian blog
Here’s a good example of an eye-catching headline: Tony Blair starts blogging… This title of a post on Simon Collister’s eDemocracy Update blog certainly grabbed my attention as I scanned the headlines in my RSS reader. The reality is different,…
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Kremlin PR headaches for Ketchum
President Putin’s right-hand man says that Russia is more than fit to host the G8 summit, The Times reports: The leading Kremlin spin-doctor [Vladislav Surkov] rebuffed Western critics yesterday with a robust defence of President Putin’s democratic credentials in the run-up…