Friday, 23 April 2010


Murdoch's mob-handed Indy visit

From Hugh Muir's Guardian diary: "Rupert Murdoch won't decide this election. You will," says the bright new poster for the bright new Independent and as a rallying point for new readers and a morale boost for staff, that seemed fine. But these things have a momentum of their own and Rupert is known to be a spiky type and so picture the scene at Indy HQ yesterday afternoon as both James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, the heaviest News Corps guns save for Rupert himself, went striding into the office of Simon Kelner, the editor-in-chief. There was no eavesdropping, say observers, but brows seemed furrowed. "It looked for all the world like a mafia capos visit," one told us. Puzzling. Scary.

The forces that have been blocking British democracy are becoming visible in this election

جشن در یکی از دبیرستانهای تهران قبل از انقلاب


Iran Before Hijab
An oddly moving film, said to be taken in Iran in 1975.
@'Radio Free Europe'

Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs

Dead Fingers Talk (2010)
© The Burroughs Trust
Click on image for slide show.
 
Bethnal Green, London
28th May – 18th July 2010

The exhibition includes work by Alma/Joe Ambrose, Steve Aylett, Alex Baker & Kit Poulson, Lawrence English, The Human Separation, Riccardo Iacono, Anthony Joseph, Cathy Lane, Eduardo Navas, Negativland, o.blaat, Aki Onda, Jörg Piringer, Plastique Fantastique, Simon Ruben White, Giorgio Sadotti, Scanner, Terre Thaemlitz, Thomson & Craighead, Laureana Toledo and Ultra-red, with performances by Ascsoms and Solina Hi-Fi.

Gawker’s Nick Denton says Gizmodo made no direct revenue from leaked iPhone post

Since Gizmodo penetrated Apple’s impenetrable fortress and posted videos and pictures of a not-yet-released iPhone earlier this week, the post has received 7,861,004 views, made it to the front page of Digg, been linked to by thousands of blogs, and retweeted over 30,000 times. A follow-up post detailing how the iPhone prototype had been lost received over 2 million views and saw similar ubiquitous coverage. Given that Gawker Media charges about $10 CPM, then one would think the media company raked in somewhere to the tune of $100,000 in advertising, making the $5,000 Gawker-owner Nick Denton reportedly paid to get his hands on the found (stolen?) iPhone well worth it.
But at a recent Paid Content event, Denton said that the scoop brought “”no immediate revenue benefits whatsoever,” and that instead it garnered “hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of publicity for the site.”
After reading this I emailed Denton asking him to confirm the no-direct-revenue claim and explain why the high page views didn’t result in more advertising dough...
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Simon Owens @'Bloggasm'

Impartial polling?

Guardian politics GdnPolitics
Interesting, no? YouGov CEO is standing as a Tory PPC http://bit.ly/bXqC32 (via @blagona) #leadersdebate


HA!

"they were all jizzed up" says Q Letts. lovely image

johannhari101 Uh... someone tell Quentin Letts what the word "jizzed" means. No - actually, don't.

Who really won?

For Fox Sake # ? - Murdoch you really are such scum

ITV panel giving it to Brown 47. Clegg 42. Cameron 12 C4 giving it to Clegg over Brown #leadersdebateYougov are claiming that Cameron won the debate. 100 fairies at the bottom of the garden surveyed. #LeadersDebate
 Sky News poll claiming Cameron won the debate. This is the day Sky News became Fox News
YouGov Poll: Earth round 23% Earth flat 64% Earth other-shaped 13% #LeadersDebate 
Just got hold of the YouGov survey question: "Did Cameron win the debate or are you a paedophile?" 
 #leadersdebate there really is a fight now on Sky News
FIGHT ON SKY NEWS. Any second now, it'll be ALL PILE ON. #leadersdebate 
Kay Burley was in there fighting not reporting, not good #LeadersDebate  
Bloody Liverpool!!!
Steven Gerrard and Rafael Benitez at Runcorn station

First impressions...

Clegg's opening statement was fugn impressive...Brown sounded the same as ever and Cameron playing up to the Johnny Britisher brigade while promising 'change', 'change' and yet more 'change'...'us the people' David? You are not one of 'us'!
Clegg is fugn brilliant with his 'nutters, anti semite, homophobe and climate change deniers' remark and the way he mentions the 'illegal invasion' of Iraq... Brown saying that he feels that there is a winnable solution to Afghanistan...hmmmm!
Cameron brings it back to how it affects the UK... 
Second time Brown has mentioned Al Qaeda in Somalia and Yemen...Cameron, sorry the Pashtuns are NOT really only found in the south of Afghanistan...got a feeling that you couldn't find Scunthorpe on a map of the UK...
...please go there as the photo op of  'who put the cunt in Scunthorpe' wld be irresistable!
Brown keeps mentioning Clegg's 'anti-Americanism'  
Now here is a good question about the Pope's visit...
You don't agree with the Pope's views on homosexuality Cameron (seriously?)
Clegg brings up his aethism again (good man!) 
All agree that the Pope's  visit should take place...
Here we go again...Cameron almost said gender, but brings up science but doesn't bring up homosexuality, Clegg does tho (that will probably bring Andrew Sullivan to orgasm I wld imagine)...Brown has no problem mentioning the 'H' word either...
OK! I am completely cream crackered...going to listen to this in bed...
half way thru and Clegg has won it already I think.
Who would have thought that LibDems cld be in this position...
Clegg's point that the old parties have let everyone down I could imagine having a lot of people nodding their heads in agreement.
Cameron doesn't sound at all convincing to me that he is different than the old Tories (but yes I am biased!) 
Brown talking about cleaning up the politicians and the parties is a little bit too late now...
Brown attacks Cameron's tax policies and how the rich will be better off...
Cameron is so good at repeating what the others have just said...
Brown's 'women and you are one of them' was very unfortunate...
and whar was Cameron's making up new policy on eye glasses and prescriptions about...been costed Dave?
Or doesn't matter as you are your rich friends won't be paying just the 'oiks' as usual...
Anyway laterz/
PS - Just had a quick look at Andrew Sullivan's live blog...well yes there was definitely a dribble re Clegg's support of gay-rights but he still gushes over Cameron (so to speak)...

Another win for Clegg I think! 

The Second Debate Live Stream

 
Coverage courtesy of Sky News/Reuters

 David Cameron just told an 84 year old woman he was going to do something in 2016. #LeadersDebate

DC: 'You should not be frightening people in election campaign'. From man who signed off 'death tax' adverts on social care.. #leadersdebate

Fuck-Yoo! (Thanx Fifi)