Well, yes apparently we do now, and it’s called Labourhome.org. Very mysterious, a nice open blog to stimulate debate in Labour’s digital grassroots (grassw00ts?) circles – a MySpace for us tired lefty hacks. It’s quite elegant (in the way only an empty website can be) and it seems to be built to encourage newbies to …
New from the AFL-CIO (American Unions) is this rather amusing new campaign, where beleagured wage slaves post in their tales of bad boss woe, and other users get to vote on them. The winner gets an expenses paid holiday (presumably to find a new job after their boss reads the story). Admittedly this is in …
This week’s B3ta challenge “How to re-elect the Tories” is turning out quite amusing (mind you, they always tend to). Dave loves MySpace and the interwebnet apparently, so I hope he is listening to some of the excellent freebie think-tankery on offer. Here’s my suggestion. Visit the rest at http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/tories/
Amnesty are getting all new media at the moment, joining the NUJ in dissing Yahoo! for their cynical dobbing in of a Chinese dissident journalist, and now running a very clever campaign to disseminate bits of info that some authority somewhere has censored. You got a blog? Marvellous. Bung a snippet of code onto it …