James Higham’s got an interesting new take on the blog roundup (he couldn’t, afterall, compete with Tim Worstall’s Britblog round up).
You can read it on James’ Nourishing Obscurity blog, although whether I should have linked to it depends on your viewpoint (see the bit about Oliver Kamm).
I’d add that the internet (and society generally) is changing so fast that ‘normal’ people have no hope of keeping up. So if you already knew about Webcameron or knew that Google had paid £900 million to provide the search function on MySpace then you can consider yourself not-normal.
On Webcameron, I wanted to make this a separate post but it seems pointless now that I’ve mentioned it. I just wanted to observe that, while it may make some people physically sick and while it does seem a little too pink, the whole idea of allowing slightly less polished presentations to be made (no matter whether they’re staged or not) is an interesting path for politicians to take.
I’m going to avoid the obvious reality TV references but I think this really will make people start to question whether politicians are different because they’re different, or whether being a politician makes all observations of you appear as though through a prism. If Cameron can come out of this looking like a normal person who has to do that politician bit, then its been a success.
October 1st, 2006 at 6:16 pm
I have long held the view that the Conservative party has a big problem with the MSM, trying to get their message through the soft liberal left dominated media without the media putting their own spin on the it, to the general public has been an almost impossible task. Conservative politicians have to be so very careful about what they say, because the media will choose to misinterpret their words to create a totally false impression this then after being repeated several times becomes the “Truth”
One cannot blame Cameron for using the internet to reach the people directly, and if the result is less polished then all to the good.