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Educators pan web copyright proposal

Educators pan web copyright proposal 09/22/2004 05:14 PM
CBC Sep 22 2004 7:26PM GMT

The Ultimate Portal for Educators

The Ultimate Portal for Educators 11/10/2003 10:51 PM
The Ultimate Portal for Educators
http://www.tea chers-connect.net/edres/portal.htm

The Ultimate Porta; for Educators including Content Area Assets, Teacher Internet Assets, Multimedia Assets, Raw Material Search Engines, Web Page Design, and Copyright.

Educators use Internet as tool

Educators use Internet as tool 02/07/2005 01:49 AM
Pe.com - Sun Feb 6, 10:30 am GMT

Teaching educators about free software

Teaching educators about free software 12/17/2003 10:45 AM
I was shocked when the middle school principal told me he could not accept free software for his journalism program; that all he was allowed to use was fresh-from-the-box commercial software. "It's school district policy," he said. "We can't even bring software from home now. It's because of the licensing. There are big fines for using unlicensed software. We can't risk it." This was an educated man, a fine teacher and administrator, but he knew nothing about the licensing terms under which Linux, OpenOffice, and many other fine programs are distributed. Neither, apparently, did his superiors in the school district administration. We need to teach them.

Educators Tune Into Computer Power

Educators Tune Into Computer Power 03/19/2003 10:23 PM
The "computers in the classroom" revolution that stalled in the 1990s finally has arrived. (The Arizona Republic via MyAppleMenu)

Illinois Educators Conference Blog

Illinois Educators Conference Blog 03/14/2005 06:22 PM

What in the World is IceCasting?

“IceCasting is an experiment in MobCasting, an idea that Andy Carvin has been exploring lately. The Illinois Technology Conference for Educators (IL-TCE) will be held in St. Charles from March 1 through March 4 and I thought this might be an interesting way to extend the learning.

Everyone loves attending conferences. There's something about being surrounded by your colleagues and being exposed to new ideas at every turn that really just gets people jazzed up about technology, teaching, and education in general. This blog is a way to capture that feeling and share it with other people. It's a place to capture those ideas that you just can't wait to take back to your school, or make you think differently about the way you're doing things now.

If you experienced something at ICE and want to share it with people, there's two ways that you can do so. Send an email to teach42.icecasting@blogge r.com, and the entire text of the email will be instantly posted here. You can also attach photos to the emails if you'd like to! If you'd like to leave an audio comment, simply call 1-661-716-BLOG (2564), use 555-555-5555 for the login and then enter 2005 as your pincode. Leave a message and your audio comment will be posted directly to the blog!

So in between sessions, if you feel inspired, pick up your cell phone and give the number a call. Share what you've seen or heard that inspired you with everyone else. Please feel free to pass this information on to anyone else attending the conference.

If you happen to use Flickr, then tag your ICE photos with ICE2005. I'll be adding a feed to the sidebar that will grab all of our communal photos that way.” [IceCasting]

Steve Dembo seems to be doing all of the heavy lifting at this point (text and audio), but it’s certainly a great idea. Keep up the great work, Steve!

To my great regret, I won’t be able to attend the Computers in Libraries conference this year, so I’m going to have to attend via the blogs. Thank heavens for non-complex, navel-gazing conference bloggers!

Apple Distinguished Educators to teach
at DLexpo

Apple Distinguished Educators to teach
at DLexpo 08/03/2004 03:45 AM
California Event Management today announced that several Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) are scheduled to teach at the first Digital Lifestyle Symposium, to be held at the Long Beach Convention Center August 13 - 15...

Educators seek a cure for the common
computer

Educators seek a cure for the common
computer 08/20/2004 11:28 PM
IHT Aug 21 2004 3:35AM GMT

National Association of Agriculture
Educators (NAAE)

National Association of Agriculture
Educators (NAAE) 06/05/2005 11:43 PM


National Association of Agriculture Educators (NAAE)
http://www.naae.org/

As a professional association for agricultural educators, NAAE provides benefits to assist members with professional growth - both tangible and intangible benefits to help members become more effective and efficient as agricultural educators. NAAE seeks to advance agricultural education and promote the professional interests and growth of agriculture teachers as well as recruit and prepare students who have a desire to teach agriculture. Membership benefits assist members in growing professionally and in becoming more effective agricultural educators. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children

Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children 04/09/2004 08:02 PM
If one trait sets Finland apart from many other countries, it is the quality and social standing of its teachers.

tech.life@school | Educators get help to
improve teaching skills

tech.life@school | Educators get help to
improve teaching skills 04/29/2004 06:33 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 29 2004 11:16AM GMT

palmOne and Handmark Announce New
Education Essentials CD for Educators
and Stud

palmOne and Handmark Announce New
Education Essentials CD for Educators
and Stud 01/23/2004 02:20 PM

palmOne Shows Educators a Wireless
Future With Treo 600 Smartphone

palmOne Shows Educators a Wireless
Future With Treo 600 Smartphone 06/21/2004 09:20 AM

NORML.ORG Web: Interview: Jude Renaud,
Educators for Sensible Drug Policy

NORML.ORG Web: Interview: Jude Renaud,
Educators for Sensible Drug Policy 06/26/2004 05:51 PM
Norml Jun 26 2004 10:11PM GMT

Poll: eMac Attraction Fades As Educators
Turn To Portables

Poll: eMac Attraction Fades As Educators
Turn To Portables 03/14/2005 05:51 PM

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed that independent third party research group Student Monitor had found that in education sphere intention to buy Mac -- particularly portable Macs -- is way up. By Karen Haslam, Macworld UK

CORRECTION FROM SOURCE: Alberta
Educators Choose Charter Telecom for Two
Major High Speed Internet C

CORRECTION FROM SOURCE: Alberta
Educators Choose Charter Telecom for Two
Major High Speed Internet C 12/29/2004 07:24 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Wed Dec 29, 06:29 am GMT

The Version3 Simple Sign-On Solution
Helping Educators with Today’s Academic
Identity Management Challenges

The Version3 Simple Sign-On Solution
Helping Educators with Today’s Academic
Identity Management Challenges 06/23/2004 03:08 AM
National Educational Computing Conference, New Orleans, LA – June 23, 2004 - Version3, Inc., developers of the Version3 Simple Sign-On solution is launching one of the most comprehensive and cost-effective application access management solutions available to schools, this week, at the National Educational Computing Conference. The availability of this product will immediately leverage an already existing Windows infrastructure in schools for Identity and Application Access Management capabilities. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

Firetrust Limited Launches MailWasher
Pro Educators Program, Providing
Discounts to Schools for its Popular
Anti-Spam Product

Firetrust Limited Launches MailWasher
Pro Educators Program, Providing
Discounts to Schools for its Popular
Anti-Spam Product 08/31/2004 02:11 AM
MailWasher Pro provides an educational discount to help increase email security and protection for educators and students [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004]

I'm looking for articles and

I'm looking for articles and 10/30/2003 08:17 PM
I'm looking for articles and tips about how to run an open source software project....

Featured articles

Featured articles 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
Distribute your CA certificate; Ban Spambots; Run through httpd.conf

More Lightning Articles

More Lightning Articles 03/31/2005 11:18 PM
Yes, it's the return of Perl Lightning Articles -- short discussions of Perl and programming. This time, learn about Emacs customization with Perl, debugging without adding print statements, testing database-heavy code, and why unbuffering may be a mistake.

Wikipedia has no articles

Wikipedia has no articles 02/01/2005 09:09 PM
I have been corrected by the estimable SJ Klein for referring to Wikipedia as "the Wikipedia." I stand corrected and will attempt to avoid mistake next time. I hope I have not caused Wikipedia any the distress....

SMS 2003 KB Articles

SMS 2003 KB Articles 06/23/2004 12:26 PM

MVP-submitted KB articles

MVP-submitted KB articles 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
"PSS has created a new process whereby MVPs can submit KB articles. Hours after being submitted, they are available online and show up in the search results along with articles written by Microsoft. You can look for articles submitted by MVPs by searching on the term "Community solutions", plus a product name if you wish (click here for the Exchange articles). These articles will show up in the search results, and you can tell they are MVP-submitted content by the icon next to the title"

Lightning Articles

Lightning Articles 09/09/2004 08:40 PM
Got something to say about Perl, but don't want to stretch it out to a full perl.com article? In the tradition of lightning talks, we now present lightning articles!

BLENDER ARTICLES

BLENDER ARTICLES 04/20/2004 08:38 AM
the worst bands in the history of rock .. their being named .. top 50 worst list .. things like this

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SEO Industry Educators Robin Nobles and
John Alexander Return from Teaching At
Louisiana State University LSU - SEO
Workshop comes to Toronto, Ontario for
Thanksgiving in October

SEO Industry Educators Robin Nobles and
John Alexander Return from Teaching At
Louisiana State University LSU - SEO
Workshop comes to Toronto, Ontario for
Thanksgiving in October 09/08/2004 03:43 AM
International search engine educators Robin Nobles and John Alexander returned from delivering their SEO certification training at Louisiana State University ( LSU Campus) last week and prepare to bring their ultimate SEO Mastery Workshop to Toronto next. [PRWEB Sep 8, 2004]

Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles

Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles 07/07/2004 05:00 AM

Series of Dry USA Today Articles

Series of Dry USA Today Articles 09/13/2004 01:12 PM
USA Today ran a series of articles about Wi-Fi: One article looks at a Silicon Valley hospital's use of Vocera, another generally examines the free vs. fee issue, and a third is a case study of a small business owner's success with using Wi-Fi linked security cameras. The articles are fine but don't reveal much that is new....

Internationalization Articles Published

Internationalization Articles Published 08/02/2004 08:56 PM
2004-07-30: The GEO Task Force of the W3C Internationalization Working Group publishes information to help authors and Webmasters understand and use W3C technologies. Articles in July: FAQ: Why should I use the language attribute in Web pages?, FAQ: Should I declare the language of my XHTML document using a language attribute, the Content-Language HTTP header, or a meta element?, FAQ: How do I use .htaccess directives on an Apache server to serve files with a specific encoding? For more items, visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)

Wikipedia : 1 Million Articles

Wikipedia : 1 Million Articles 09/20/2004 07:07 PM
News gurus The Inquirer note that online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, has now over a million pages of content.

Formed just under 3 years ago, the site has exploded in content and usefulness. With just 200,000 pages as of January this year, over the last 9 months they've seen a five fold increase and a few server pains to boot. It's unique method of content creation has also been key to it's success. Users submit data and build up subjects, often with startling levels of detail. Data can then be edited / updated by other users as time goes on, keeping content fresh and up to date.

Although the site has enjoyed much success in the technology community due to it's free / GPL friendly nature, traditional educational establishments have been urged not to use the site, with some groups suggesting that it is "un-authoritative". Indeed, one techie went on to test exactly how good Wikipedia users were at weeding out false information: the results were poor, with none of the changes being noticed.

Sadly, although Wikipedia list a reference for The Inquirer, the site doesn't feature yours truly - Neowin. A page placed on the site today was hours later marked for deletion; better check it soon, as it might not be there tomorrow.

View: Wikipedia.org

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SQL Server Online Articles

SQL Server Online Articles 09/25/2004 11:19 AM

Wikipedia breaks 10^6 articles

Wikipedia breaks 10^6 articles 09/20/2004 02:41 AM
Cory Doctorow: The free/open Wikipedia encyclopedia project just posted its 1,000,000th article.

The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia, its project to create a free, open-content, online encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org)). Started in January 2001, Wikipedia is currently both the world's largest encyclopedia and its fastest-growing, with articles under active development in over 100 languages. Nearly 2,500 new articles are added to Wikipedia each day, along with ten times that number of updates to existing articles.

Link (via Joi Ito)

Internet Marketing Articles

Internet Marketing Articles 09/17/2004 08:44 AM
Internet Marketing Articles
http://submi tyourarticle.com/articles/articles.php

A database of recently released articles on Internet marketing from the Submit Your Article folks. A quick scan shows some interesting articles that can always improve one's ability to navigate the murky waters of the Internet marketing oceanscape! This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

IPA Articles - Cato Institute

IPA Articles - Cato Institute 05/29/2004 06:08 PM
lets us in on

accuracy.org/articles/cato.htm
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Articles: Arial Sidebar 1

Articles: Arial Sidebar 1 12/24/2003 03:01 AM
How to differentiate between Arial and Helvetica .. How to Spot “Arial” .. read this article

ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html
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"Articles of War" by Nick Arvin

"Articles of War" by Nick Arvin 06/24/2005 07:30 PM
This gripping WWII novel follows a stunningly average young soldier from Iowa to Europe -- and forces us to rethink the glory of the Greatest Generation.

Get up and running with a host of .NET
articles

Get up and running with a host of .NET
articles 09/04/2002 11:15 PM
CNET Sep 4 2002 10:26PM ET

Educators to Gather for Conference on
Successful Schools, Successful Students

Educators to Gather for Conference on
Successful Schools, Successful Students 06/17/2005 04:31 PM
Market Wire Jun 8 2005 4:57PM GMT
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Department of Political Science at UIUC

Department of Political Science at UIUC 05/13/2004 09:27 PM
Full text or abstract of study available here .. the 27 reasons for the Irak war senior thesis .. study

pol.uiuc.edu/news/largio.htm
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Slanting Science to Make Political
Points

Slanting Science to Make Political
Points 02/18/2004 05:22 PM
Another Bush scandal: Top scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates and 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Science, say the administration is abusing science in service of politics.

Gideon Softworks xBack 3.4.2 offers
Tiger support

Gideon Softworks xBack 3.4.2 offers
Tiger support 06/22/2005 02:22 AM
Gideon Softworks today announced the release of xBack 3.4.2, the latest release of its utility to allow users to replace ther desktop with a screen saver...

Developing A Strategy For Saving
High-Tech:Defense Science Board Wrestles
A Political Hot Potato

Developing A Strategy For Saving
High-Tech:Defense Science Board Wrestles
A Political Hot Potato 04/13/2005 07:29 PM
Manufacturing News Apr 13 2005 11:24PM GMT

In a Polarizing Case, Jeb Bush Cements
His Political Stature

In a Polarizing Case, Jeb Bush Cements
His Political Stature 03/25/2005 01:36 AM
Gov. Jeb Bush's intervention in the case of Terri Schiavo may have so far failed in a legal sense, but it has helped cement his conservative and religious credentials.

Science Fiction Case Mod Contest: The
First Winner!

Science Fiction Case Mod Contest: The
First Winner! 06/05/2005 11:43 PM
Case Mods: Our first weekly case mod winner is 23-year-old David Barry, of Brooklyn, New York. David's Star Wars TIE Figher mod blew us away. David gets 50 free downloads from eMusic.com

Lawyer In Murder Case Trying To Prove
GPS Is Junk Science

Lawyer In Murder Case Trying To Prove
GPS Is Junk Science 02/11/2004 03:58 AM
We've written before about court cases that involve some element of technology, where a lawyer convinces a judge or a jury of something by simply using a lot of techno-babble that doesn't make sense, in an effort to prove a point that simply isn't true. It sounds like that's what a lawyer is about to do in the well hyped Laci Peterson murder trial here in California. Scott Peterson's lawyer is going to try to have the court exclude GPS evidence on Peterson's whereabouts by claiming GPS technology is unreliable and inaccurate and has "not been generally accepted by the scientific community." Considering the number of applications that use GPS technology with pinpoint accuracy every day, they're going to have a tough time convincing many people on this one.

White House Considers Role in Wine Case:
Supreme Court Dispute Over Internet
Sales Ban Splits Bush's Political

White House Considers Role in Wine Case:
Supreme Court Dispute Over Internet
Sales Ban Splits Bush's Political 07/29/2004 01:10 AM
Washington Post Jul 29 2004 5:52AM GMT

Wainwright Consulting, a Minnesota-based
Technology Consulting Company, Announced
Today that it has Signed a Reciprocal
Supplier Agreement with Synapse SE

Wainwright Consulting, a Minnesota-based
Technology Consulting Company, Announced
Today that it has Signed a Reciprocal
Supplier Agreement with Synapse SE 03/17/2005 03:46 AM
Wainwright Consulting, a Minnesota-based technology consulting firm, and Synapse SE, a national provider of technology services, today announced that the two companies have signed off on a new teaming agreement to jointly pursue opportunities in the small and mid sized business market. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Wainwright Consulting, a Minnesota-based
Technology Consulting Services Company,
Announces Deal to Provide Infrastructure
Support for Vocallogic's VoIP Services

Wainwright Consulting, a Minnesota-based
Technology Consulting Services Company,
Announces Deal to Provide Infrastructure
Support for Vocallogic's VoIP Services 03/19/2005 02:20 AM
Wainwright Consulting, a Minnesota-based technology consulting firm, and Vocallogic, a worldwide provider of Voice over IP services and technology, today announced that the two companies have signed a new teaming agreement to jointly pursue opportunities in the small business PBX and VoIP market. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]

Candy Science: M&Ms pack more tightly
than spheres: Science News Online, Feb.
14, 2004

Candy Science: M&Ms pack more tightly
than spheres: Science News Online, Feb.
14, 2004 02/17/2004 06:09 AM
Candy Science: M&Ms pack more tightly than spheres

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Making Science Fact, Now Chronicling
Science Fiction

Making Science Fact, Now Chronicling
Science Fiction 06/14/2004 09:32 PM
Donna L. Shirley is director of the new Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, where science fiction is used to spur interest in science.

Popular Science | Is Science Fiction
About to Go Blind?

Popular Science | Is Science Fiction
About to Go Blind? 08/17/2004 11:40 PM
The Singularity and its effect on science fiction .. "Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?"

popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,676265,00.html
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New Science Museum - Now With Real
Science!

New Science Museum - Now With Real
Science! 04/28/2004 03:58 PM

Entrust Science and Technology Related
Policies and Budget Drawing to the
Science and Technology Minister

Entrust Science and Technology Related
Policies and Budget Drawing to the
Science and Technology Minister 01/07/2004 03:11 PM
Donga.com Jan 7 2004 11:54AM ET

Super Science Fair Projects: Complete
Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics
and Experiments

Super Science Fair Projects: Complete
Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics
and Experiments 05/24/2004 06:24 AM
Super Science Fair Projects: Complete Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics and Experiments
http://www.super-sc ience-fair-projects.com/

Today your teacher announced that your school is going to have a science fair and students are responsible for exhibiting their projects. What do you feel? Enthusiastic? Despondent? Dreadful? Fearful? Excited?" This statement opens the Super Science Fair Projects site. Actually, whether student or parent, science fair projects, while great ways to get students actively involved in learning the scientific method and problem solving, can be tough assignments. This site may help you with one of the hardest parts: coming up with an idea. The site does a great job of walking the visitor through the steps needed to plan and implement a project, from Choosing a Topic, the Scientific Method, and writing the Project Report. There are even tips on displaying your project, rehearsing, winning over judges, and what to expect the day of the fair. This is definitely a great tool to tap into when planning a science fair project.[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

Internet music provider wants copyright
case suspended till US case decided

Internet music provider wants copyright
case suspended till US case decided 02/10/2004 02:47 PM
AFP via Yahoo! Feb 10 2004 5:41PM GMT

PC Case Roundup, Including The Case of
Ultimate Darkness

PC Case Roundup, Including The Case of
Ultimate Darkness 04/20/2004 07:17 AM
ExtremeTech has a nice PC Case Roundup, with samples ranging from the bizarrely-shaped to the cute and cuddly. There's a huge range of options in PC cases these days; the choice is no longer simply 'How much room do I want?' but 'What do I want it to look like?'...

Confidence Man - The case for Bush is
the case against him. By William Saletan

Confidence Man - The case for Bush is
the case against him. By William Saletan 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
the full article .. questo articolo .. William Saletan .. Will Saletan's

slate.msn.com/id/2096654
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Case Mod: Putting An iMac DV Into An ATX
Case

Case Mod: Putting An iMac DV Into An ATX
Case 01/10/2004 05:36 PM

Get your Political Ad On

Get your Political Ad On 09/05/2004 01:14 PM
A fantastic clearinghouse for thinking about political advertising can be found courtesy of the University of Iowa's Department of Communication Studies. Links include the previously discussed wonder "The Living Room Candidate" and even advertising consulting firms. Pretty good reading, with enough links to keep you busy for a while.

Political Asylum

Political Asylum 02/05/2005 10:18 PM
Gordon66 examines PSA and social security reform.

Political Contributions

Political Contributions 11/05/2003 02:29 PM
Who gives how much to whom. For those like me who have been wondering about the claim that Republicans get more of their funding from ordinary people and the Democrats get more from foundations and rich individuals here is where we can find out. So far, I have found some surprises.

Political in Business

Political in Business 07/27/2004 09:46 PM
Political bias in media is a big topic, especially in blogging, but what about political bias in business? We pretend to be objective and for business and government to be as seperate as church and state. Executives are people too...

"political animal"

"political animal" 03/28/2005 10:47 AM

Further Political Pontification

Further Political Pontification 09/07/2004 02:41 PM

Trying to be all cool like we are* by commenting on the upcoming elections, SlashDot has added a special political section to carry stories about the campaigns.

With the US Presidential Election coming up, we've had a lot of story submissions that we would like to post, but they don't fit very well on the Slashdot main page. To address this, we'll be running special political coverage between now and the election in our new Politics subsection of Slashdot. [...]

We'll do our best to be fair with story selection. We think we can do a good job since the Slashdot editors represent a diverse spectrum of political ideologies.

While the editors may be able to maintain an unbiased discourse, I'm sure no one expects the same of the comments. Still, it's great to see all of the ways in which online communities are trying to get people informed and involved. The way things are going, I predict a record voter turnout this year**.

* Actually, SlashDot may have beaten us by about 8 minutes.

** Actually, I don't have anything to back that up, and I'm totally spitballing it.

PS: Last election post today, I (campaign) promise

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Political clarity...

Political clarity... 10/31/2003 07:16 AM

For many recent Labour voters the last couple of years have been a bit of a troubling time - with some of the actions of the government (particularly with regard to the War in Iraq) seeming to be violently and almost universally at odds with the views of the electorate. As a result, I think it's far to say that their popularity has waned. But while people have become vaguely disillusioned with Labour, the other political parties haven't really seemed to be particularly inspiring any kind of reaction at all. In a way it's a bit of a surprise - whether you like the policies or not, it's difficult to deny that the Conservative policy raft has been more interesting than it has been for a long time. But that doesn't seem to have made much of a difference either way. On the whole - with the exception of occasional terrifying statements by Oliver Letwin, the only things they do that get any press or interest from the public have been their bi-weekly attempts to commit televised hari-kiri.

There's a whole range of reasons why they might not have made sufficient political hay recently. Obviously there's the increase in general political disillusionment. Certainly the current government hasn't done an awful lot to stem that particular tide. Also, no one realistically thinks that the Conservative party can quite hold themselves together long enough to put any of their shiny new (if occasionally barking) policies into practice? Their regular apocalyptic tailspins have made them the "Kenny" of Westminter's "South Park".

Another position - and one I tend to subscribe to - is that because they've simply tried to be perceived as vaguely socially tolerant (and had a "nice" non-threatening leader), minority groups, trade unions and the like have stopped thinking of them as an actual danger any more. And while that group has had their anxieties eased a bit that doesn't mean that they (or other people in the centre-ground) are yet convinced that they're trustworthy, representative of public opinion or - well - totally in touch with reality... And while they're waiting for evidence, they're quite comfortable to background them...

Well as far as I'm concerned, the discomfort remains and the anxiety is back. That's not to say that I think Michael Howard has much of a chance of being Prime Minister. And it's not to say that I think the party will be any more united under his leadership. But - if they put him in charge of their party - they will have made certain parts of this argument crystal clear for me again. Instead of being able to view the Conservative party as representing an alternative - perhaps more market / efficiency driven - approach to running the country, appointing Michael Howard is no more or less than running up the Conservative Skull and Crossbones again and setting sail for the easy targets of cheap political swag.

Tom Watson has put up a post that reminds us of the facts about Michael Howard. There's terrifying stuff in there. I'm going to highlight a few of the ones that scare me most personally, but please - read the full list...

"As Home Secretary, he believed that the answer to crime was simply to lock more people up: "an increase in the number of criminals in prison leads to a large fall in crime" (POLITICS, MORALITY AND THE NATION STATE lecture, ST. MICHAEL CHURCH, CORNHILL, CITY OF LONDON, 10 January 2003)"

"Howard criticised Jack Straw's decision to detain General Pinochet and actively campaigned for his release: "We think this has gone on far too long. We think he should be sent back to Chile." (BBC Interview, 26 November 1998)"

"Howard opposed the introduction of the Human Rights Act."

"Howard was judged to have flouted the European Convention on Human Rights following unlawfully delaying the release of five long-serving IRA prisoners - the SEVENTH time he had been found to be acting illegally in just two years as Home Secretary. (September 1995)"

"Howard voted against equal rights for homosexuals by opposing lowering the homosexual age of consent to 16"

And if you still needed evidence that this man must not be allowed to become Prime Minister at any cost, then how about these two draconian, vile-worded and dangerously regressive/oppressive policies:

"Howard was the Minister in Charge of bringing in the Poll Tax in 1988. Even after Thatcher had gone, and after the poll tax riots, he insisted he still believed in the policy (July 1991)"

"Howard was the Minister who brought in Clause 28 of the Local Government Act banning the "promotion" of homosexuality (March 1988)"

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Political bl0gging 101

Political bl0gging 101 01/28/2004 10:17 AM
It's an interesting week in British politics (and not just because of Hutton). On Tuesday evening, British MP (and noted blogger) Tom Watson raised the subject of RFID tags in a House of Commons debate (text here) - as a result of being alerted to the t hreat to civil liberties by fellow bloggers. Indeed, he even talked about his website in the chamber. Can blogs continue to affect British democracy? Qu ite possibly...

"Political Wire"

"Political Wire" 02/19/2004 08:49 AM

Why do political ads stink?

Why do political ads stink? 07/07/2004 01:08 AM
Joshua Green wrote an interesting and insightful piece regarding the current state of political advertisements. Here is an example of an ad by a media consultant he refers to, based in Pittsburgh. Another spin here. I've often wondered why they're so predictable. The Atlantic gives us a glimpse into poly. ad history and, quite possibly, its future.

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