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 adding their 4pth without being intimidated by the cliqueishness of the more energetic political blogs. Hopefully there are going to be some more detailed help files coming though, as it’s likely to totally bewilder anyone who’s not already thoroughly used to this kind of thing.

Anyway, well done those chaps, and let’s hope this is one of the first steps we need to start catching up slightly with the right wing blogohemisphere, who’ve rather stolen a march on us. I hope Conservativehome realise that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

http://www.labourhome.org

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 the States, the Land Before Employment Law, where people only get 2 weeks’ hols and bosses are almost legally bound to be as evil as they can, but some of the stories do make me very grateful for the number of (mostly lovely) bosses I’ve had in the past.

http://www.workingamerica.org/badboss/

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 (see side bar on main page - Blogger won’t let the code in a post) and it will call in a piece of genuine taboo onto your very own pages, making you a mirror site in an vast international censor-busting web ring.

Not sure how much this will actually help anyone under the threat of censorship with extreme prejudice, but it is very neat, and definitely does help get the blog community feeling very grateful for freedoms that we enjoy.

http://irrepressible.info/addcontent