listening to "TV THEME - CHARLIE'S ANGELS" →
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Poor Farrah.
June 2009
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listening to "Jackson 5 singing I want you back - " →
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An all-time favourite @ChrisDJMoyles got me with this one on the way in to work this morning, even though I’m not a big MJ fan #fb
listening to "CHICK HABIT - APRIL MARCH" →
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Papers are put to bed, what a soundtrack for web work. #fb
“If we assume that news and truth are two words for the same thing we shall, I believe, arrive nowhere.”
—(via paulbradshaw)
listening to "He's on the phone - Etienne Daho and St Etienne" →
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My ear worm this #musicmonday
“I’ve been asking some of the reporters I’ve spoken with where they were on other recent social media and protest stories. Citizen media has emerged as one of the key spaces for journalism in Fiji in the wake of a coup government that’s censoring mainstream media. It’s been a key source of information in Madagascar as that country’s suffered through a violent change of government. (One reporter who I mentioned this to remarked that Madagascar was “just a speck of an island somewhere”. That speck is twice the size of Great Britain and has the population of Australia…) In Guatemala, online media publicized the assasination of a lawyer by forces close to the president… and government authorities began arresting people for twittering the story to amplify it. These weren’t huge stories for most newspapers - the Iran story is huge not because of the social media aspect, but because protests in Iran are a huge story independent of citizen media.”
—Ethan Zuckerman, on Iran, citizen media and media attention
(via ericmortensen) (via tandriamirado)
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MPs expenses outrage
All the really bad stuff hit the headlines in May, but now the receipts have been published I cannot believe some of the comments being made.
While having lunch with my bf today, we were flicking through the café’s copies of The Sun, The Mirror and the Daily Mail, just to see what was said.
There were comments about William Hague claiming 49p for paperclips. So?
Part of me doubts very much that he personally bought those paperclips and they were probably from a much larger stationary bill for his office. All those 49ps add up. Will he get drawn over the coals for a packet of highlighter pens next?
I’m no apologist for duck island buying and moat-cleaning MPs, but I’ve claimed expenses for a tin opener I bought for the office kitchen. Was that outrageous?
I’ve bought a couple of reference books for work purposes, and claimed those, too.
My partner and I have claimed for breakfasts eaten when we’ve been working away from home (not together I might add). Is that so very bad?
It seems the analysis is trawling the depths now and anything an MP pays for in relation to their work is fair game.
listening to "Proper Rock - The Chap" →
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Proper songs for real folk. #fb
listening to "Jive talking - Bee Gees (29/32)" →
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Subject to office lyric debate this afternoon.
listening to "Good Enough (Live) - Dodgy" →
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Because it felt a bit more like summer today #fb
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
—V (via soupsoup)
State Department to Twitter: Keep Iranian tweets coming →
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… the State Department is advising social networking sites to make sure their networks stay up and running for Iranians to use them and helping them stay ahead of anyone who would try to shut them down.
For example, senior officials say the State Department asked Twitter to refrain for going down for periodic scheduled maintenance at this critical time to ensure the site continues to operate. Bureau’s and offices across the State Department, they say, are paying very close attention to Twitter and other sites to get information on the situation in Iran.
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listening to "The Yip song - Robyn Hitchcock" →
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She’s here in #Worthing this afternoon. Bless Vera Lynn.
listening to "Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole Over The Rainbow - " →
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I’ve enjoyed this version for a long time now.
