Archive

Year: 2008

  • Does blogging matter? The world has it say and we have ours

    January 16, 2008

    Earlier this week BBC World's Have Your Say Forum chaired an interesting radio and online debate entitled; "Do political bloggers make a difference?" Certainly the comments in the forum represent a mixed bag. On the one hand we find the likes of Lamii Kpargoi, Coordinator for Initiative for Mobile Training of Community Radio in Liberia, who feel that blogs played an important role in drawing the attention of the world to “the situation in [Liberia...

  • Return to work (or Facebook as it’s now called)

    January 4, 2008

    The Christmas holidays being over for some of us, we returned to work yesterday to a near empty office and lots of internal email traffic predicting the results of the Iowa caucus (most of which had been proven wrong by this morning). As we had already read the important emails on the Crackberry over Christmas lunch there was nothing left for it but to get straight back to work. As such, we went on Facebook...