So, superinjunctions. Everyone’s talking about them, right? Well, they were on Monday. Not so much now admittedly, our collective attention span being as hummingbird-like as it is. The papers are still full of them, of course, but they’re acting more out of sheer bloody-minded determination to finally publish what they’ve been blocked from printing for [...]
Some experienced activist-media folks have put together this excellent guide on putting together a media team. It’s intended to give a quick guide of how to coordinate media work for community/student/activist groups taking political action, particularly direct action and civil disobedience. The information is broadly applicable to any number of campaigns, but it was written [...]
Anybody interested in the revolution in Egypt should take the time to read this interview by Parvez Sharma with an Egyptian protester: http://www.al-bab.com/blog/2011/blog1102c.htm. Being interviewed is the man previously referred to as ‘Yousry’ to protect his identity, but who now insists on having his real name – Omar – published openly (demonstrating the new sense of confidence among the [...]
Along with what felt like most of the rest of the UK left blogosphere, I spent yesterday at the TUC’s Congress House for Netroots UK. For the most part I was pretty impressed – though as with all conferences like this there were a large number of different events being run concurrently and I only [...]
I’ll admit, I don’t actually have any real evidence either way as to whether Twitter is out to censor the student protests. So it could, potentially be true. But seriously, how likely is it? I’m not claiming big companies aren’t capable of doing evil shit if they feel the need, but what would an American [...]
When Margaret Thatcher entered hospital recently, her impending demise began trending on Twitter. I could quote some #whenthatcherdies tweets for you, but you know what I’m on about. The fact that people were thrilled to hear of Mrs Thatcher’s ill-health simply isn’t surprising; the fact that so many celebrating her coming death weren’t even alive when [...]
It should come as little surprise to hear that Ricky Gervais has quit Twitter after just one month and six tweets. After all, it would be hard to imagine the self-confessed (and not wholly undeserving) egotist getting everything he wants to say about himself down in 140 cringe-worthy characters. Of course, one of his characters [...]
Ah, Twitter. That bite-sized break from ennui, that stream of consciousness, that tool of social mobilisation… but mobilisation to what? Twitter has played an important part in the democratisation of politics – witness the Tweets of solidarity from Iran and the recent downfall of the Carter Ruck’s Trafigura injunction against The Guardian (which was also in [...]
Just recieved this notification: The Iranian Government is now tracking Twitter and Facebook in Iran. Everyone please go to your setting and please change the location (Top right ‘settings’) and network to IRAN so the government will have a hard time tracking the facebookers and tweeters. If anyone is on Twitter, set your location to [...]
