The News Review:
- Popular blogs are attracting interest of book publishers
- Blogging Beijing
- Blogging Whitehall mandarin had top secret ‘panopticon’ plan
Popular blogs are attracting interest of book publishers
Providence Journal – Apr 1, 2008
Powell’s bestseller Julie and Julia, about a woman who cooked one Julia Child recipe a day, started as a blog. A guy starts a clever blog in January and calls it Stuff White People Like. The site contains a list of cultural totems, including gifted children, marathons and writers’ workshops, that a certain type of moneyed and liberal American might be expected to like.
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Blogging Beijing
Seattle Times – Apr 1, 2008
They’ve already transformed the way millions of people think and live. Seattleite and Fulbright researcher Daniel Beekman brings you Beijing.
Blogging Whitehall mandarin had top secret ‘panopticon’ plan
Register – Apr 1, 2008
The document, signed by top Cabinet Office mandarin Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom, was prepared for the Domestic Affairs Cabinet Committee, and describes NODISS, the proposed “National Operational Deterrence and Intelligence Surveillance System. The NODISS plan predates the ID card scheme (consultation began on its precursor, “entitlement cards”, the following year), and the reaction of ministers to Neville-Kingdom’s plan – if it was ever presented to them – is not known. Many subsequent developments in UK security and surveillance systems however could be seen as possible components of a NODISS-style system, so the document can probably be seen as an accurate reflection of government thinking at the beginning of Tony Blair’s second administration. NODISS, says the document, was intended to provide “real-time data to law enforcement and designated official structures in a way which maximally utilises the range of disparate legal powers available for their acquisition, and comprehensive virtual links between hitherto isolated silos of data for intelligence exploitation.
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