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	<title>Comments on: Free the Blackadder One!</title>
	<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/</link>
	<description>Scrapbook of a labor-geek - Unions 2.0 in the UK</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Derek Blackadder</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-900</link>
		<author>Derek Blackadder</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-900</guid>
					<description>Many thanks John.  Much fun.

Though I must say that if the campaign succeeds I shall lose a good solid hour out of my day as I once again spend it checking the Book.  :-)

FB organizing to make FB organizing possible...mmm...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many thanks John.  Much fun.</p>
<p>Though I must say that if the campaign succeeds I shall lose a good solid hour out of my day as I once again spend it checking the Book.  <img src='http://www.johninnit.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>FB organizing to make FB organizing possible&#8230;mmm&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: johninnit &#187; Blog Archive &#187; You only live twice</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-902</link>
		<author>johninnit &#187; Blog Archive &#187; You only live twice</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-902</guid>
					<description>[...] and radically different (if rather smaller) social networking service. Plus they haven&#8217;t kicked Derek Blackadder out yet, so it must be [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] and radically different (if rather smaller) social networking service. Plus they haven&#8217;t kicked Derek Blackadder out yet, so it must be [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Sylvie Joly</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-904</link>
		<author>Sylvie Joly</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-904</guid>
					<description>Solidarity, Derek, from the Quebec part !
But I'm still a facebook «noodle». I didn't join yet. But, for sure, when I'll make it, unfortunately I won't be Derek's friend !
Sylvie, Confederation des syndicats nationaux</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Solidarity, Derek, from the Quebec part !<br />
But I&#8217;m still a facebook «noodle». I didn&#8217;t join yet. But, for sure, when I&#8217;ll make it, unfortunately I won&#8217;t be Derek&#8217;s friend !<br />
Sylvie, Confederation des syndicats nationaux</p>
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		<title>By: Duncan Money</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-905</link>
		<author>Duncan Money</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-905</guid>
					<description>That's funny, I'm a bit obsessed with Facebook and I've never heard of anyone getting the boot for adding too many friends. 

Companies or MPs who set up profiles never seem to have this problem.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s funny, I&#8217;m a bit obsessed with Facebook and I&#8217;ve never heard of anyone getting the boot for adding too many friends. </p>
<p>Companies or MPs who set up profiles never seem to have this problem.</p>
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		<title>By: Hilde</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-906</link>
		<author>Hilde</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-906</guid>
					<description>I enjoy Facebook, and I would rather have messages from Blackadder than "funny" videos of animals doing strange things, or You-tube clips..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I enjoy Facebook, and I would rather have messages from Blackadder than &#8220;funny&#8221; videos of animals doing strange things, or You-tube clips..</p>
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		<title>By: Seymour Goode</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-907</link>
		<author>Seymour Goode</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-907</guid>
					<description>Kind of ironic that 2facedbook is banning a trade unionist but at the same time allowing fascists to thrive there. I say let him back on and shut down the fascists instead!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kind of ironic that 2facedbook is banning a trade unionist but at the same time allowing fascists to thrive there. I say let him back on and shut down the fascists instead!</p>
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		<title>By: Susan Stout</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-908</link>
		<author>Susan Stout</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-908</guid>
					<description>Retired from a unionised job, so don't need to be organised! And don't intend to join Facebook.  But sure figure Derek should have as much access as anyone.  I'll stick to Labourstart.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Retired from a unionised job, so don&#8217;t need to be organised! And don&#8217;t intend to join Facebook.  But sure figure Derek should have as much access as anyone.  I&#8217;ll stick to Labourstart.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Sadlemyer</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-909</link>
		<author>Jim Sadlemyer</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-909</guid>
					<description>Solidarity from B.C. !!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Solidarity from B.C. !!!</p>
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		<title>By: Bjarke Friborg</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-910</link>
		<author>Bjarke Friborg</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-910</guid>
					<description>Just to get things straight: Is there a 1000-person limit in FB on the number of friends an individuel can have? A rule which does not apply to FB groups, certainly So why hasn't he made a group for his union? Or has he? Please fill in the blanks - I just need some info to start campaigning for him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just to get things straight: Is there a 1000-person limit in FB on the number of friends an individuel can have? A rule which does not apply to FB groups, certainly So why hasn&#8217;t he made a group for his union? Or has he? Please fill in the blanks - I just need some info to start campaigning for him.</p>
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		<title>By: admin</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-912</link>
		<author>admin</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-912</guid>
					<description>Thanks everyone. Quick clarification - Derek was booted for adding too many people too quickly, not for having too many friends in total. I heard there might be a 5,000 limit (Kevin Rudd had to switch during the Aussie elections I believe, for getting too popular), but Derek wasn't near that (tho he was still *way* more popular than me!).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks everyone. Quick clarification - Derek was booted for adding too many people too quickly, not for having too many friends in total. I heard there might be a 5,000 limit (Kevin Rudd had to switch during the Aussie elections I believe, for getting too popular), but Derek wasn&#8217;t near that (tho he was still *way* more popular than me!).</p>
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		<title>By: cyril hammond</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-913</link>
		<author>cyril hammond</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-913</guid>
					<description>Crazy, is there a conspiracy here?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Crazy, is there a conspiracy here?</p>
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		<title>By: johninnit &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Whoosh!</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-914</link>
		<author>johninnit &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Whoosh!</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-914</guid>
					<description>[...] few hours ago, the little group I started to protest at Derek Blackadder&#8217;s unceremonious ditching from Facebook had 28 members. Now at 1,650 users, it&#8217;s one of the world&#8217;s most popular union-related [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] few hours ago, the little group I started to protest at Derek Blackadder&#8217;s unceremonious ditching from Facebook had 28 members. Now at 1,650 users, it&#8217;s one of the world&#8217;s most popular union-related [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: johninnit &#187; Blog Archive &#187; The world&#8217;s shortest dispute.</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-917</link>
		<author>johninnit &#187; Blog Archive &#187; The world&#8217;s shortest dispute.</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-917</guid>
					<description>[...] Victory! Derek is free again to poke and be poked in his natural habitat! Luckily now he no longer needs to work on this [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Victory! Derek is free again to poke and be poked in his natural habitat! Luckily now he no longer needs to work on this [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Ian MacLeod</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-923</link>
		<author>Ian MacLeod</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-923</guid>
					<description>Have you considered getting hold of the headquarters of whatever unions there are remaining with this?  Perhaps unions will come out in defense of other unions, seeing their own freedom and safety in such an action. Give it a try.

Ian</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you considered getting hold of the headquarters of whatever unions there are remaining with this?  Perhaps unions will come out in defense of other unions, seeing their own freedom and safety in such an action. Give it a try.</p>
<p>Ian</p>
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		<title>By: Bruno</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-929</link>
		<author>Bruno</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-929</guid>
					<description>Are we so weak that we need to use facebook, if you can't join them beat them!

Do we not have resources and intelligence to create our own network?

We need cable channels, newspapers, internet radio and radio stations to be able to reach out to a wider audience. 

Let start educating, agitating and organising!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are we so weak that we need to use facebook, if you can&#8217;t join them beat them!</p>
<p>Do we not have resources and intelligence to create our own network?</p>
<p>We need cable channels, newspapers, internet radio and radio stations to be able to reach out to a wider audience. </p>
<p>Let start educating, agitating and organising!</p>
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		<title>By: admin</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-936</link>
		<author>admin</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-936</guid>
					<description>Thanks Bruno. In answer to your question: Yes, and no.

We're not too weak to organise our own activists in our own channels. Look at initiatives like Streik.tv in Germany or unionreps.org.uk in the UK. Where activists want to engage, we can provide them with better, deeper and more responsive resources, and channels to get better involved in a meaningful way.

But we *are* too weak to use our own channels to engage with (the majority of) people who don't yet give a t*ss about unions. We need all the help we can get to get a populist message over to those people and gradually win them round. They won't come to us if they don't have a reason. We have to go to them to make first contact, and that means going into places like Facebook.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Bruno. In answer to your question: Yes, and no.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re not too weak to organise our own activists in our own channels. Look at initiatives like Streik.tv in Germany or unionreps.org.uk in the UK. Where activists want to engage, we can provide them with better, deeper and more responsive resources, and channels to get better involved in a meaningful way.</p>
<p>But we *are* too weak to use our own channels to engage with (the majority of) people who don&#8217;t yet give a t*ss about unions. We need all the help we can get to get a populist message over to those people and gradually win them round. They won&#8217;t come to us if they don&#8217;t have a reason. We have to go to them to make first contact, and that means going into places like Facebook.</p>
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		<title>By: Tales from the Net &#187; How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-964</link>
		<author>Tales from the Net &#187; How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech: Part 1</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-964</guid>
					<description>[...] has a limit on how many friends you can make. Union activist Derek Blackadder added too many friends too quickly, and when he continued after Facebook&#8217;s warnings his account was [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] has a limit on how many friends you can make. Union activist Derek Blackadder added too many friends too quickly, and when he continued after Facebook&#8217;s warnings his account was [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: peppone</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-975</link>
		<author>peppone</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-975</guid>
					<description>yeh thers a 5k limit scobel got banned a while back but he kicked up a fuss</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yeh thers a 5k limit scobel got banned a while back but he kicked up a fuss</p>
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		<title>By: DamionKutaeff</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-985</link>
		<author>DamionKutaeff</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-985</guid>
					<description>Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I'm glad to join your conmunity, 
and wish to assit as far as possible.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I&#8217;m glad to join your conmunity,<br />
and wish to assit as far as possible.</p>
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		<title>By: SLunionisland &#187; User Group report 6 May 08</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-1029</link>
		<author>SLunionisland &#187; User Group report 6 May 08</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-1029</guid>
					<description>[...] are concerning some activists, but it doesn&#8217;t rule out incidents in SL like Facebook&#8217;s Blackadder Affair earlier this [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] are concerning some activists, but it doesn&#8217;t rule out incidents in SL like Facebook&#8217;s Blackadder Affair earlier this [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Social Bookmarking &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Labour and social media: resources and cases from the CALM workshop</title>
		<link>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-1073</link>
		<author>Social Bookmarking &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Labour and social media: resources and cases from the CALM workshop</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2008/01/23/free-the-blackadder-one/#comment-1073</guid>
					<description>[...] Free the Blackadder One! (and some more thoughts on Facebook) [...]</description>
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