Comments on: The super-blog launches!

By: Earth Satelite

Earth Satelite — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:08:24 +0000

Earth Satelite…

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

By: sonia

sonia — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:56:25 +0000

and ‘defined’ groups end up constraining individuals, as we all know! or they try and define them to a certain extent. perhaps that’s not a problem for some people, but it is for me, im not at all easily defined

By: sonia

sonia — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:54:23 +0000

Perhaps people have an interesting idea of collaboration – it seems to be the same old one, you come to us. Otherwise its not collaboration! Yes it will be interesting to have one site that draws together different bloggers, its an extra offer. but its hardly as if by people not going to that site, they are not collaborating. The vision i want – is for collaboration between individuals – not just collaboration within a wider, central group. I’m not saying participating within the wider group detracts – however, it is important to realise that it is the networking of individuals that is significant, not the ‘group’ formation per se.
that’s what i find interesting about the net.

good points from Rumbold

By: TheFriendlyInfidel

TheFriendlyInfidel — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:46:35 +0000

Good luck with your new project Sunny.

TFI

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:56:57 +0000

As for where my writing will be concentrated…. well I’m junking some earlier projects and focusing more on PP, LC and CIF

Which ones?

By: The left-of-centre blogosphere stirs « I’m Simon Dickson.

The left-of-centre blogosphere stirs « I’m Simon Dickson. — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:48:40 +0000

[...] an eye on LiberalConspiracy.org – the new ‘liberal-left‘ ‘hub‘/’super-blog‘ launched today by pickled politician Sunny Hundal. It sets out to be a ‘political [...]

By: rupahuq

rupahuq — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:35:18 +0000

Heard the PM thing on the way back from work – good work. Am surprised Eddie Mair was so nice to you Sunny. He is on record as saying that bloggers do not deserve airspace on the BBC – if you don’t believe me see
http://www.labourhome.org/story/2007/11/2/95552/7246

By: Don

Don — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:56:22 +0000

Morgoth #33,

Good article.

By: Morgoth

Morgoth — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:41:22 +0000

I think the rejoinder at the end put it perfectly: why bother having leftist blogs when the left has the BBC.

By: chrisc

chrisc — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:17:43 +0000

Oops I mean to say liberal (tiny font) LEFT (big font)!

By: chrisc

chrisc — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:17:04 +0000

Oh dear.

Are you really saying that you have more in common with the far left than the mainstream right?

More in common with, I don’t know, George Galloway than with David Cameron?

Not so much Liberal Left as Liberal (font LEFT (font 32)?

Surely not?!

By: douglas clark

douglas clark — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:10:11 +0000

If anyone missed it you can listen to it here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/

The second clip is Guido. It’s interesting too.

By: Rumbold

Rumbold — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:00:44 +0000

Sunny:

Good performance on the PM programme. You were articulate and sounded relaxed.

By: j0nz

j0nz — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:51:39 +0000

Interesting Sunny, you have greater quibble with conservatives rather than far-left who often come across as anti-semitic, who support vile totalitarian regimes, and support terrorist action for the ‘revolution’ (change of the current regime ‘by any means necessary’)

Though I am intrigued as to what ideas need to be challenged on the right.1

By: Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:18:22 +0000

(posting from someone’s office)

There is a grey area to be treaded of course but there’s no argument over the fact that I have no tolerance for stupid, silly, abusive, sarcastic etc comments. There’s no intellectual reason why I should tolerate such rubbish.

Will we then become a bunc of lefties not being able to agree on anything, or a Stalinist organisation dictating a party line where everyone has to agree?

The answer is neither. I don’t dictate any party lines but neither do I want it to be a venture where the left fights with the far-left and forgets that the main ideas that need to be challenged are on the right.

By: chrisc

chrisc — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:39:06 +0000

“Labour is the natural party of the middle classes”

Eh? I think not!

By: Refresh

Refresh — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:36:17 +0000

Leon, I’ve long believed this to be the New Labour project. It would have been all done and dusted had it not been for Blair’s wars.

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:51:59 +0000

That’s a really good way of characterising it Refresh…

By: Refresh

Refresh — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:42:43 +0000

“hopefully, there would be some room for actual collaboration rather than setting up boundaries”

Sonia, this has already happened in the form of New Labour. Labour is the natural party of the middle classes, and the Tories are the pressure group.

By: sonia

sonia — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:16:57 +0000

32, the right will unite against it,

seeing as they seem to be seting themselves up to mirror the current polarity that exists, i suppose so too.
hopefully, there would be some room for actual collaboration rather than setting up boundaries, but hey. that would be expecting too much from the online medium now wouldn’t it – expecting it to be able to allow us to get past our existing barriers and boxes, if we want to perpetuate such dichotomies, what is the medium to do about it?