Archive for April 2008
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Papal authority and human rights: Thinking Aloud by Simon Barrow
Simon Barrow has been thinking about the tensions within the Roman Catholic Church between a traditional vision of authority, and a desire to engage with human rights and the modern world.
Top UK websites, and does Google have potential to dominate?
Google websites account for more than a third of all traffic to UK websites. It also has a strongh presence in a large number of Interet market segments. Do we need to worry?
Suicide Squirrel: Sony and Ofcom
Sony Television has apologised for screening a cartoon series called Suicidal Squirrels, above, which shows 100 different ways in which the furry animals might die.
Food and Farming: Pigs in a Poke
This is a short segment from Farming Today at the weekend, throwing a different light on what is happening with our possible “food security” problem. The national breeding pig herd is down by almost a tenth since Christmas; get a British pork chop while you can.
Podcast Notes: ROFLCon, GTA IV, Web 2.0 and Congo
Right click this link to download to your computer or the blue arrow to listen. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, by far the easiest way to get it, click here. I took this week off bar a…
The Final Countdown: A Defining Moment in the Lives of Gordon and Dave - Politics Decoded with Garbo
Boris or Ken; YouGov or Mori: We’ll have to wait and see…
It’s the final straight to the big day: May 1st. Will it be Boris, will it be Ken? We’ll have to wait and see…
What is sure is that the pollster YouGov is either going to be the only credible pollster left in the UK [...]
Britblog Roundup #167 by Amused Cynicism
The roundup is a compendium of last week’s outstanding posts in the British Blogosphere.
Britblog Roundup No. 167 (27-Apr-07) is hosted at Cabalamat.
For the full Pods and Blogs Roundup to download, visit Chris Vallance’s site.
