{"id":4,"date":"2004-05-02T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T10:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2004-05-02T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2004-05-02T10:47:27","slug":"politicians-blogs-and-more-eu-anoraking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/life\/2004\/05\/politicians-blogs-and-more-eu-anoraking\/","title":{"rendered":"Politician’s blogs and more EU Anoraking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading a few political blogs recently, including Tom Watson<\/a> and Richard Allen<\/a>. I was going to write an entry arguing that more MPs should write blogs; they provide their constituents with an unrivalled amount of information about their representatives. It turns out that Clive Soley<\/a> has written about it already<\/a>. (He writes MPs (as in the plural of an MP) as MP’s; is that correct?)<\/p>\n

My MP has a website<\/a> but he doesn’t maintain it himself and it shows; there’s not the personal thoughts or the two-way communication. A side effect is that our politicans would be more tech-aware and might do more about software patents<\/a>. I wrote a letter to my MP and he wrote a “nice” polite reply back but I got the distinct impression that he wasn’t outraged by the situation. Knocking Tony Blair’s door down to lambast him about the fiasco doesn’t seem high on his To-do list.<\/p>\n

Richard Allen points out this nice summary of the EU constitution<\/a> which I hadn’t seen before which was the original point of this entry before I went off on a tangent. At the debate I went to a lot of people were whining that the (foreign-owned) media would make the referendum unfair. The BBC seems to cover it in a positive light often enough and when somebody (anybody!) starts to make the case for in a organised, serious way it’ll get plenty of coverage.<\/p>\n

In other news, I’ved been fiddling with the internals of Firefox<\/a> recently, trying to alter its user interface a bit but all this XUL and XBL etc. is confusing, I think I might need to find a tame hacker to e-mail a few questions but more about that else-when.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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