Addicted to Facebook
Tags: Politics, Journalism, Internet, Toby Harnden, Networking, Facebook
If you haven't got into Facebook then I'm sure you will soon. With junk emails swamping our inboxes, Facebook offers a way out - a method of connecting and sharing information with only those you want to talk to and hear from. It is already starting to revolutionise politics and journalism.
Join the party on Facebook
I confess that I'm hooked. For bloggers the potential is enormous - bringing together a group of people who with a mutual interest. As an experiment, I'm starting a Facebook group called "Readers of Toby Harnden's blog" - a way of letting you know when and what I've posted and a forum for discussion away from the public eye.
Big Sister Hillary is watching you
Tags: Internet, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, youtube, Republicans, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Big sister ad
Is this the future of US election campaigns? Call it "Big Sister". A guerilla YouTube attack ad that portrays a droning Hillary Clinton and shows an athlete wearing a Barack Obama logo smashing an image of her is creating a huge blogosphere buzz.
Could the Big Sister ad sink Hillary's chances?
No one (yet) knows who created the video, based on Ridley Scott's famous 1984 Apple spot for Macintosh. Team Obama is delighted but says the equating of a Hillary presidency with George Orwell's nightmare vision of "1984" is nothing to do with them.
You have 1,064 new emails
Well, I did survive without email and blogs for nine days. But my Inbox wasn't pretty when I came back. And it was harder than I thought to avoid news entirely - even on the remotest Caribbean islands.
I only used the internet once!
One benefit of the maelstrom of technology we get caught up in every day is that when - if - you can escape it then the sensation is even more blissful. It made me more determined to use technology as a tool rather than allowing it to enslave me.
Obama: Muslim terrorist smear
Tags: Internet, elections, Religion, Barack Obama, smear campaign, Indonesia
Barack Obama's bi-racial, multicultural life story is central to his powerful appeal as a 2008 White House aspirant. Racists and xenophobes are already trying to turn this into a weapon against him via an internet smear campaign.
Barack Obama: facing internet smear campaign
An email headed "Be careful, very careful, it's true" states that Obama's father was a "radical Muslim" and that the future senator attended "one of Jakarta's Wahabbi schools" before expediently becoming a Christian as an adult "to help purge any notion that he is still a Muslim".
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