Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
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February 12, 2007
SQUAREVISION
Watching a bit of TV over the weekend I noticed Yasmin Alibhai-Brown slagging off bloggers on the early BBC vaguely Political show. Iaian Dale, a rightwing conservative politician and blogger making a few ripples over here with the 18 Doughty st project defended blogging.
Yasmin said she didn't want to write in a blog format because she didn't want to get feedback from the "vile masses" or something and she compared bloggers to "dusty people on bar stools" or something similar.
So fucking what? Your opinion is FAR more important than anyone elses because you are being PAID for it eh Yasmin? I hate pathetic intellectual snob bitches. Since I opened my Youtube site I've deleted more comments than at first but I still enjoy the "He should go and fug himself" hillbilly comment my films attract. What is wrong with hillbillies? How are they "less" than Yasmin? I see no distinction between educated and unwashed. We are all monkeys.
Come to think of it I do see a distinction. Intellectual snobs are AT THE BOTTOM.
A TV programme I have loved to hate almost made me cry the other day. In Dragons Den various dreamers looking for a knee-stool into the trough of capitalism pitch their ideas to a row of nasty venture capitalists looking to invest their own money. This has a sort of morbid road accident attraction, with capitalists getting off on destroying peoples dreams on TV.
On Sunday I watched a nice old rasta trot up singing a song about his "Reggae reggae sauce" he had been making in his bathtub with his kids or something and selling at the Notting hill carnival. A letter he had in his pocket, which he claimed had an advance order for x million litres actually turned out to be x thousand litres. A slip with figures like this is always the biggest cardinal sin with these people, the wankers in the middle duly tore into him and declared themselves out.
Peter Jones, with a strange look on his face, never seen before on the programme offered to put up half the money for twice the share the rasta was offering. If I was on a seat I would have fallen off it. The Australian fuck on the other end had a little think about it, and put up the other half.
Nice old rasta quickly accepts, hugging his new muti millionare buisness partners with the others clapping. It was worth seeing all of the other horrible series of this programme just to watch the format turn on its head just this once. Jamaican culture is still bankable eh?
Levi Roots is the singer who slayed the dragons of BBC2's business show with a reggae tune.
He convinced the millionaire investors on Dragons' Den to back his plan to produce his Reggae Reggae sauce on an large scale.
Now Roots, from Brixton, is in talks with Sainsbury's about distributing the sauce, which claims to "put music in your food". He may also have a surprise hit song on his hands.
...Discussions about a nationwide launch with Sainsbury's could even be accompanied by a chart release of the Reggae Sauce song following thousands of enquiries from viewers after Wednesday's show.
Roots said: "I'm not in this to be the next Heinz ketchup. I just want to bring the sweet, sweet flavour of reggae music to the world."
If you click on the site you can watch the whole thing.
UPDATE: Youtube here
Yasmin said she didn't want to write in a blog format because she didn't want to get feedback from the "vile masses" or something and she compared bloggers to "dusty people on bar stools" or something similar.
So fucking what? Your opinion is FAR more important than anyone elses because you are being PAID for it eh Yasmin? I hate pathetic intellectual snob bitches. Since I opened my Youtube site I've deleted more comments than at first but I still enjoy the "He should go and fug himself" hillbilly comment my films attract. What is wrong with hillbillies? How are they "less" than Yasmin? I see no distinction between educated and unwashed. We are all monkeys.
Come to think of it I do see a distinction. Intellectual snobs are AT THE BOTTOM.
A TV programme I have loved to hate almost made me cry the other day. In Dragons Den various dreamers looking for a knee-stool into the trough of capitalism pitch their ideas to a row of nasty venture capitalists looking to invest their own money. This has a sort of morbid road accident attraction, with capitalists getting off on destroying peoples dreams on TV.
On Sunday I watched a nice old rasta trot up singing a song about his "Reggae reggae sauce" he had been making in his bathtub with his kids or something and selling at the Notting hill carnival. A letter he had in his pocket, which he claimed had an advance order for x million litres actually turned out to be x thousand litres. A slip with figures like this is always the biggest cardinal sin with these people, the wankers in the middle duly tore into him and declared themselves out.
Peter Jones, with a strange look on his face, never seen before on the programme offered to put up half the money for twice the share the rasta was offering. If I was on a seat I would have fallen off it. The Australian fuck on the other end had a little think about it, and put up the other half.
Nice old rasta quickly accepts, hugging his new muti millionare buisness partners with the others clapping. It was worth seeing all of the other horrible series of this programme just to watch the format turn on its head just this once. Jamaican culture is still bankable eh?
Levi Roots is the singer who slayed the dragons of BBC2's business show with a reggae tune.
He convinced the millionaire investors on Dragons' Den to back his plan to produce his Reggae Reggae sauce on an large scale.
Now Roots, from Brixton, is in talks with Sainsbury's about distributing the sauce, which claims to "put music in your food". He may also have a surprise hit song on his hands.
...Discussions about a nationwide launch with Sainsbury's could even be accompanied by a chart release of the Reggae Sauce song following thousands of enquiries from viewers after Wednesday's show.
Roots said: "I'm not in this to be the next Heinz ketchup. I just want to bring the sweet, sweet flavour of reggae music to the world."
If you click on the site you can watch the whole thing.
UPDATE: Youtube here
August 24, 2005
BRITISH BLOGGERS
In over a year of blogging I've had hardly any contact with British blogger's. Mike got me blogging and I met deek not so long back (check out Drunk Baboons, Tripping Leopards) but apart from these two... erm... I think thats it. Everything else has been from over the pond. I sort of thought that blogging was largely a US phenomenon.
Checking out the truth laid bear's British section I found a couple worthy of note. Harry's place has an intriguing comment on a post about the BBC's Panorama: MCB Special
(talking about Omar Saeed Sheikh)
I read a fascinating study of him - he was captured in Kashmir and did porridge in the highest security prison in India - but he was so highly regarded by the Pakistan based Jihadis that they hijacked an Indian airplane in Nepal specifically to have him released - one passenger was killed, the plane landed in Afghanistan, Sheikh was released in retun for the Indian passengers - a couple of years later he reappears in Pakistan and is responsible for luring Daniel Pearl to his death - so he is caught and tried in private because Musharaff is terrified of the secrets he will spill about ISI involvment with Jihadism (he refuses to allow the CIA access to him) - rumours abound that he has info on a connection between Bin Laden and Pakistani secret service - he is sentenced to death but for some reason the sentence is not carried out - they say that the Al Qaeda leadership had him earmarked for a possible future leader so charismatic, intelligent and commited he was - anyway, the last they heard was that Omar Shaikh had converted the guards at the prison he is being kept in to radical Islam and is living like a Lord there - he has that gift of the gab - and he is still alive.
posted by a guy called luke
All the comments are interesting, this being about the controversial Panorama documentary I blogged about a while back. Abu Hamza called these guys "The Kaffir Council of Britain" it's quite strange seeing everyone call them extremist's.
I noticed someone else critisised MPACUK for links to anti-semetic websites.
Checking out the truth laid bear's British section I found a couple worthy of note. Harry's place has an intriguing comment on a post about the BBC's Panorama: MCB Special
(talking about Omar Saeed Sheikh)
I read a fascinating study of him - he was captured in Kashmir and did porridge in the highest security prison in India - but he was so highly regarded by the Pakistan based Jihadis that they hijacked an Indian airplane in Nepal specifically to have him released - one passenger was killed, the plane landed in Afghanistan, Sheikh was released in retun for the Indian passengers - a couple of years later he reappears in Pakistan and is responsible for luring Daniel Pearl to his death - so he is caught and tried in private because Musharaff is terrified of the secrets he will spill about ISI involvment with Jihadism (he refuses to allow the CIA access to him) - rumours abound that he has info on a connection between Bin Laden and Pakistani secret service - he is sentenced to death but for some reason the sentence is not carried out - they say that the Al Qaeda leadership had him earmarked for a possible future leader so charismatic, intelligent and commited he was - anyway, the last they heard was that Omar Shaikh had converted the guards at the prison he is being kept in to radical Islam and is living like a Lord there - he has that gift of the gab - and he is still alive.
posted by a guy called luke
All the comments are interesting, this being about the controversial Panorama documentary I blogged about a while back. Abu Hamza called these guys "The Kaffir Council of Britain" it's quite strange seeing everyone call them extremist's.
I noticed someone else critisised MPACUK for links to anti-semetic websites.
June 02, 2005
June 01, 2005
U KNOW IT
established newspaper groups have to look at ways to start profiting from the new ways that audiences access their media, ie: through blogs, which can only mean a combination of two things: more newspapers setting up blogs, or more newspapers buying out existing blogs. Moral none the less: play ball with the blogosphere or newspapers will lose out.
the Blog Herald
the Blog Herald
May 13, 2005
BLOG BIRTHDAY
My blog is a year old today so I thought I'd celebrate a year of this strange obsession in true internet geekin style - with a badly put together photocollage!
from left to right:
THE DEEKSTER: a fellow disillusioned lefty who also wishes the world were a better place
Mr. Mike H. My blogging brother who I met in Rishikesh (India) when he was 19. It was he who introduced me to blogging- for what good it has done me!
BRAD: A Republican who I hope doesn't still think I want to kill everyone who gets in my way
THE SCRUTINATOR: A Republican who I have enjoyed the odd argument with, but who has also informed me of my own beliefs sometimes.
Ex-Millenial Girl: A real person who has gone through the service industry of the shit that happens to males who's life doesn't turn out like the fairy tale they were told when they grew up. She's survived and shes blogging about it!
Tequilas not for me:The first blogger I met. If I blogged as honestly as her about my life you'd all be in tears.
and, last but not least- the most famous blogger of the lot of us (if profile views are anything to go by)- MISSES RIGHTWINGSPARKLE: Clash on politics, but love the smile!
a virtual birthday party with all the characters I have met through blogging. great party no? an ex-enron employee, an ex-stripper and cat-nip grower, a fellow lefty and 3 republicans, (the dog at the back is a republican) I am supposed to be a technosquat anarchist film maker- what happened?
Happy birthday blog!
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