Joe's Jottings

Tagged: politics

Online Exhibitionists affect privacy for us all...

· george-orwell, privacy, blogs-and-blogging, personal-stuff, politics, privacy-issues, psychology, technology, the-media

I came up with the title for this piece after reading this article on the BBC Website about people who the authors of a paper called 'online exhibitionists.  The idea is that much privacy legislation …

Can we handle the 'cold snap' more effectively?

· personal-stuff, politics

As the UK proves once again that it can't handle bad weather, there was an infuriating 'talking head' on the TV news the other day reminding all workers, everywhere, that if they can't get in to work,…

Incompetent or Dishonest - the new TV Game Show for 2010

· humour, politics

Good Evening, and welcome to this week's edition of 'Incompetent or Dishonest', the new game show where YOU get the chance to decide whether our elected representatives and civil servants are just a b…

The last freedom moped from nowhere city....

· censorship, civil-disobedience, personal-stuff, politics, the-media

Back in the 1980s there was a sit com on British TV called'The Young Ones'), which was based in a student house and followed the surreal adventures of the students who lived there.  One of the charact…

Blogging the Party Line?

· blogs-and-blogging, politics, the-media

Incendiary political blogger Guido Fawkesmade an interesting observation the other day that the Left are once again saying that 2010 will be their year to dominate the Blogospherein a run up to an ele…

Thou shalt not steal...at least not from the corner shop.

· personal-stuff, philosophy, politics

Father Tim Jones, a parish priest from a Church in York, raised a bit of a rumpus recently by suggesting that if you were desperately needy it was OK to shoplift - at least form the larger stores, whe…

Do No Evil - Ursula Le Guin, The Authors Guild and Google

· censorship, google, literature, philosophy, politics, technology, the-media

During Google's formative years, the company decided to come up withthe equivalent of a short mission / vision statement that summed up what it was to be Google.  After some serious thinking, the slog…

A sermon from Martin Luther King...still relevant today.

· christianity, personal-stuff, philosophy, politics

Dr. King first delivered this sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he served as co-pastor. Peace on Earth… This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race. We have neither peace with…

Is this really to the public good?

· censorship, privacy, public-interest-defence, personal-stuff, philosophy, politics, technology, the-media

 A couple of weeks ago I came acrossthis article in the Guardian(not my normal read, but their online media pages are useful) referring to the publication by the Wikileaks organisationof an archive of…

A Modest Proposal to focus Climate Negotiator's Minds.

· environment, personal-stuff, politics

In the last few minutes of the final episode of the TV series 'Blackadder Goes Forth', Blackadder and his Company are poised to go 'over the top' from their trench to charge the German lines.  In the …