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Blogger flees Pakistan "fearing for his life"

In some parts of the world, blogging is still very much a revolutionary activity: Pakistani blogger Aasim Saeed who went missing earlier this month has been found but has quickly left the country fearing for his life, his family said on Sunday. Saeed’s

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UKiP, Community Care and Blog Comments

Ah, the social media world is full of chit-chat after the felling of a Labour parliamentary candidate by his own brazen stupidity and contempt for the electorate Twitter. But, here in sunny Sutton, we’ve been having a bit of social media fun with

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How Guido Fawkes Felled Damian McBride

Worth a read: [Guido Fawkes: His Role in Damian McBride’s Downfall](http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3540431/a-bloggers-notebook.thtml)The whole McBride saga has been a fascinating study of the dance between bloggers, mainstream media and the centralising urge of government.

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Flightblogger Breaks Obama Running Mate Story

One of our bloggers [broke the Obama running mate story](http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2008/08/vice-presidential-picks-and-pl.html). Here’s how:He knew that the candidate’s planes go into shop for re-painting around the time of the announcement. He put a

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The Knee-Jerk Journalistic View of Bloggers

Oh, don’t you love it when you open up your RSS reader, and find something that encapsulates an aspect of your life? Ladies & gentlemen, Mr Howard Owens: Most of the bad bloggers tend to gravitate toward current affairs blogging. Unfortunately, political blogs

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When Silence Falls

![Iain Dale in Blue](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/images/2007/Iain Dale in Blue-thumb-200x147.jpg)Apologies for the protracted silence. A family member has gone straight from a hospital stay into a bout of chemotherapy, and I’ve been designated carer through it. Time

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Blogging and Politics Event Upcoming

The Telegraph‘s holding a Blogging & Politics event the week after next. I’ll be there.

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Harriet Harman: Former Blogger?

“Did Harriet Harman blog her way to victory?” asks Ellee, as part of a nice round-up of the Labour Deputy Leadership blogs. Maybe. But it’s a shame she hasn’t blogged since her victory.

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Local Tory Blogger

How did I miss this? Local Tory candidate for the Mayor of Lewisham, James Cleverly, has a blog.

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Other Seminar Reports

I’ll add links to this as I find them. Samizdata has an interesting and somewhat cynical take on the whole affair. You’ve got to admire that. UPDATE: Actually, someone’s already doing a good job of this. Go check out Harry’s

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Seminar Report: political blogging at the Houses of Parliament

The crowd gathered at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the Great Committee Room were exactly as one would expect: a smattering of suits, a good measure of geeky types, a fair few trendy new media types and a few journalists

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Last Night's Seminar

Well, the seminar last night was excellent, even if it was preaching to the converted. I’ll write up my thoughts later on, but you might like to look at the meeting notes, the manifesto prepared for the event and Voxpolitics’ write-up. The BBC

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MPs, Blogging and the House of Commons

I’m off to Westminster tonight to attend this seminar. I don’t think I’ve been to an event garnering so much media coverage since my student protest days. I will, of course, blog about how it goes.