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These new features (inserting ads into the blog post, and VERY easy tagging) seem to work very nicely .. let’s see what it looks like when I hit “Post”
Tagging, Tagfluence
Doc Searls analyses, opines and informs with respect to education, learning, creativity and innovation.
I suggest that he is suggesting that the major effects of Open Source and interconnectedness are yet to be felt .. and that there are some remarkable things happening already.
I posted an item about a week ago challenging Robert Scoble to offer his opinion, as did many others in the blogosphere, regarding the perceived quiet abandonment of supporting anti-discrimination legislation in Washington State.by Microsoft. I don’t imagine he read my post, but I’m sure that many many other people posted about it and obviously he read enough to take some action.
Many people say many things about Robert Scoble regarding his role as a corporate voice.
In this instance, I would like to commend Robert Scoble for taking a very clear public stance about Microsoft’s actions and values, and making a clear public statement to that effect.
From reading the material on his blog, and following the links, it seems to me that he (and others) facilitated a clear and public response from Steve Ballmer. I also thought Ballmer’s respone by email (which was posted by Scoble for the public to read if they wish) was earnest, serious, thoughtful and in good faith.
That transparency thing again. Notwithstanding the fact that it was widely reported in the more traditional news media, I’d be willing to bet that the blogosphere played no small role in illuminating and airing this issue.
Well done, Robert.
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Via the UK’s Independent newspaper, another oddly-timed leaked memo … but it seems real. The UK is ablaze about it.
Just kidding (about the Rove part)… but anything’s possible, I suppose.
“REVEALED: DOCUMENTS SHOW BLAIR’S SECRET PLANS FOR WAR
By Raymond Whitaker, Andy McSmith and Francis Elliott
01 May 2005
“Tony Blair had resolved to send British troops into action alongside US forces eight months before the Iraq War began, despite a clear warning from the Foreign Office that the conflict could be illegal.
“A damning minute leaked to a Sunday newspaper reveals that in July 2002, a few weeks after meeting George Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Mr Blair summoned his closest aides for what amounted to a council of war. The minute reveals the head of British intelligence reported that President Bush had firmly made up his mind to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein, adding that ‘the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.’
“At the same time, a document obtained by this newspaper reveals the Foreign Office legal advice given to Mr Blair in March 2002, before he travelled to meet Mr Bush at his Texas ranch. It contains many of the reservations listed nearly a year later by the Attorney General in his confidential advice to the Prime Minister, which the Government was forced to publish last week, including the warning that the US government took a different view of international law from Britain or virtually any other country.
“The advice, also put before the July meeting, was drawn up in part by Elizabeth Wilmshurst, the Foreign Office’s deputy legal adviser, who resigned on the eve of war in protest at what she called a ‘crime of aggression.’
“The latest revelations could scarcely have come at a worse time for Labour…”
