Adding to the archive
Sunday, 8 January 2006, 10:44
My blog contains dozens of draft posts, mostly containing links that I never found the time or interest to develop any coherent thoughts on. Becasue In flagrent violation of blogging convention, I’ll be progressively adding these back-dated items to the live archive as short “mini entries”.
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1. Martin Stabe » Fore&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1105
[...] [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
2. Martin Stabe » Do s&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1116
[...] Laura Rozen is right. If you don’t like Christian conservatives voting to teach creationism in your local school, run for school board. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
3. Martin Stabe » Cred&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1118
[...] (via Kevin Drum) [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
4. Martin Stabe » Turk&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1131
[...] [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
5. Martin Stabe » Hers&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1133
[...] Watch this space. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
6. Martin Stabe » A Br&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1136
[...] But this is how Hate Radio works in America. It numbs you to far right positions; it makes the most depraved politics banal and commonplace. So Ann Coulter talks affectionately of “the benefits of local fascism” and nobody blinks. Michael Savage describes Lindy England as “an American hero“ and tells gay listeners, “I hope you get AIDS and die,” and we simply avert our gaze. Even a mad criminal like G. Gordon Liddy is accepted as a normal part of the political furniture. Republican politicians appear on his show happily and nod along to his far-right patter. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
7. Martin Stabe » Site&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1142
[...] Kevin Sites, the journalist who covered the Marine shooting an wounded Iraqi in Falluja, has had to turn off the comments on his blog because of death threats. (New York Times via Romenesko.) [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
8. Martin Stabe » Lobb&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1229
[...] Better a late link than no link: a 2003 article on lobbying in the EU by Samuel Loewenberg from the American Prospect. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
9. Martin Stabe » Oh g&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1245
[...] Today, however, only one newspaper – The Daily Mail – lead with the story. The Today programme this morning noted that it was “pretty thinly-sourced” and pointed out that it fits nicely into to the Government’s agenda on the day of a Queen’s speech that is full of law-and-order and anti-terrorism bills including really bad ideas like identity cards and juryless terrorism trials. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
10. Martin Stabe » Regr&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1252
[...] Jim at Our Word is Our Weapon has compiled this excellent graph illustrating the effective rates of taxation endured by various income groups under the present British tax regime. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
11. Martin Stabe » Inst&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1255
[...] A newspaper in Chile, Las Ultimas Noticias is experimenting with instant feedback from its website to determine the content of the next day’s newspaper. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
12. Martin Stabe » Meth&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1256
[...] I’ve stumbled across this excellent paper on “methodological nationalism” (PDF by Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller, whcih neatly explains the tricky issue of how the social sciences have fallen into the ontological trap of taking the present nation-state system as a given, taking the national and natural. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
13. Martin Stabe » More&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1316
[...] The idea seems to be catching on elsewhere, as well. The The United States Customs and Border Protection Service (RSS) is the first American FOI RSS feed that I have seen. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
14. Martin Stabe »&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1320
[...] No, actually, they don’t. A school can volunteer any document they want. The FOIA sets out minimum standards for releasing information, and any public authority can chose to be more open if it so choses. There is no requirement to make citizens jump through the formal hoops to gain access to information. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
15. Martin Stabe » Shov&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1329
[...] [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
16. Martin Stabe » Hous&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1330
[...] But the Commons staff is suggesting that MPs and their staff are not covered by the FOIA, depite the fact that “these are people paid entirely from the public purse”. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
17. Martin Stabe » Glob&hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1341
[...] Robert Reich on the world’s rich are splitting into two seperate elites: one national and one global. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
18. Martin Stabe » The &hellip | 8 January 2006 at 1343
[...] The scramble for African oil: a Chinese view. [ADDED 8.1.2006] [...]
19. Martin Stabe » Coun&hellip | 10 January 2006 at 1411
[...] Requesting environmental health reports was one of the earliest and most common requests made by journalists under the Freedom of Information Act. Most councils complied with such requests, and some even began proactively publishing the reports. But some, including the City of Westminster in central London tried to evade a request from the Guardian, arguing that disclosing the reports would sow “confusion and panic” among the public and harm tourism. [ADDED 10.1.2006] [...]
20. Martin Stabe » Medi&hellip | 10 January 2006 at 1641
[...] Scotsman: Freedom of information leads to a media free-for-all. [ADDED 10.1.2006] [...]
21. Martin Stabe » Acad&hellip | 10 January 2006 at 1643
[...] [ADDED 10.1.2006] [...]
22. Martin Stabe » Acad&hellip | 10 January 2006 at 1643
[...] [ADDED 10.1.2006] [...]
23. Martin Stabe » FOIA&hellip | 10 January 2006 at 1653
[...] Magnus Linklater comments on how journalists should use the new FOIA. It includes a quote of note: “This is the hour of the long-term clever nerd,” comments Professor Peter Hennessy, veteran observer of the Whitehall scene. [ADDED 10.1.2006] [...]
24. Martin Stabe » Blog&hellip | 10 January 2006 at 2038
[...] Sure, these guys bear varying amounts of culpability and deserve varying amounts of criticism, but if you take a look at the standard history of the blogosphere it becomes clear that its best known incidents on both left and right — Lottgate! Rathergate! Easongate! — all revolve around public figures being viciously hounded out of their jobs. Positive accomplishments, conversely, are pretty thin on the ground. [ADDED 10.1.2006] [...]
25. Martin Stabe » New &hellip | 10 January 2006 at 2045
[...] Via Simon Waldman, here’s something to peruse in a free moment: : David Sheddon’s New Media Timeline (1969-2004). [ADDED 10.1.2006] [...]
26. Martin Stabe » Blog&hellip | 10 January 2006 at 2121
[...] Combined with the OJR article Gillmor also links to and this handy guide by Brian Carroll of the UNC School of Journalism & Mass Communications just about covers the still-confused position in the United States. [ADDED 10.1.2006] [...]
27. Martin Stabe » UN d&hellip | 10 January 2006 at 2123
[...] (Hat tip: Your Right to Know and Information Policy) [ADDED 10.1.2006] [...]
28. Martin Stabe » UK T&hellip | 13 January 2006 at 2329
[...] One of the items listed on the Treasury’s Freedom of Information Disclosure Log may interest readers of this blog: a breakdown for how much is being paid annually by Great Britain to the EU for membership. [ADDED 13.1.2006] [...]
29. Martin Stabe » Chin&hellip | 13 January 2006 at 2332
[...] It’s been a while since I’ve endulged my esoteric interest in international baseball on this blog, so here goes: the members of the Chinese national team are preparing for the 2008 Olympics. As the hosts, China will automatically qualify. Although I’m generally sceptical of the London 2012 bid, securing automatic qualification for the Great Britain National Baseball Team would be a certain bonus. [ADDED 13.1.2006] [...]
30. Martin Stabe » The &hellip | 14 January 2006 at 1143
[...] If you want to find the agents of European integration, and they are not all found in Brussels. The Economist, for example, suggests that “Stelios Haji-Ioannou and Michael O’Leary, the two pioneers of Europe’s low-cost airlines, have done more to integrate Europe than any numbers of diplomats and ministers.” [ADDED 14.1.2006] [...]
31. Martin Stabe » The &hellip | 14 January 2006 at 1331
[...] CJR looks at the consequences of an erroneous media-driven moral panic of the past, the so-called crack babies. [ADDED 14.1.2006] [...]
32. Martin Stabe » Welc&hellip | 14 January 2006 at 1336
[...] Like Jesus’ General a few months back, my blog today received a visit (referred via Straight Banana) from someone at the domain cifa.mil, which belongs to the U.S. Counterintelligence Field Activity. Who? [ADDED 10.1.2006] [...]
33. Martin Stabe » Read&hellip | 14 January 2006 at 1341
[...] An Irish graduate student has devised a way of extrapolating the blacked-out words in declassified documents using text-analysis software. Unfortunatly, it’s “no good for tackling larger sections of text”. So much for the 9/11 report, then. [ADDED 14.1.2006] [...]
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