Help Labour's Abbas win in Tower Hamlets

I got this email this afternoon - spread the word - it is just absolutely essential that we have a honest and competent secular socialist as Mayor.

So please support Abbas to be the elected Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets. 

I think you know why.

"Dear Member

Helal Abbas is running to win the Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election for Labour  on the 21st of October.  It will be a tough fight.

The Conservatives have won council seats in the borough, the Lib/Dems are fielding a candidate and Respect and George Galloway are openly supporting an ex-Labour independent, who has declared himself a candidate

Tower Hamlets Labour Party will need all the help that you can give. The campaign office is at 349 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9RA and will be open for canvassing and leafleting from 10am-6.30pm every day until the election.

Please ring 0207 729 6682 or email abbas4mayor@gmail.com for further details or to let us know when you are available.

With your help we can ensure a Labour victory on the 21st of October

Ken Clark

Director London Labour Party 

Environmental Global Reset Button.

Recently Cambodian Buddhist monk Bun Saluth was honored by the United Nations for his environmental preservation work in preserving 18,000 acres of forest land in Cambodia. When asked about his monumental efforts he didn't hesitate to say that he was simply following Buddha's example (not just his words); When Buddha was still alive, he used trees and caves as lodging to obtain enlightenment. In this way, he has taught us to love the natural resources and wild animals.

Additionally, I would add that one of the most prominent reasons that Buddhists are often advocates for nature and animals is because of the core teachings upon interdependence. It's not so much protecting the trees out of a sense of moral superiority but rather a normal extension of being awake to the multi-layered essence of life on Earth. When we awaken to the reality that our very existence is dependent upon a healthy planet then it becomes obvious that protecting the trees (and the rest of nature) is an extension of being alive. It is also true that when we cultivate compassion for others we understand how balancing nature is integral in helping to reduce their suffering.

Thich Nhat Hanh says in his new book, "The World We Have" that, The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way. Just like eating a bunch of sugar instead of a meal will give you a rush of artificially inflated energy followed quickly by a depressing physical crash; so to will trashing out planet lead to a crash of the "good times" followed by a deep and painful awakening to a very different world.

I've never been much of a doomsday alarmist but the over-consumption of just about everything by humanity is really starting to show and take its toll. Our greed has over-fished our oceans, poisoned our air, desecrated our forests and swollen our Earth with over-population. It is an unsustainable lifestyle and that centuries long, unskillful behavior is harvesting some sobering karma. I'm not the kind of person who stands on the corner of a busy street, ringing a bell and warning of the "end of the world" but I do see a radical change coming, and I believe awareness is the best tool to adapting.

I can see a time in the near future when our instant, electronic world will crash and fail like an old car in the Mohave desert. This will return us to a simpler way of life where the grocery store is a garden, where the animals are more valuable than cars and where being able to work with others in co-operation will mean the difference between survival and calamity. It won't destroy all of humanity but we'll have to relearn how to live a life similar to that before the industrial revolution, which will be a tough transition for some who lived the delusion that the party would go on forever. We lived through the ugly days of the "Dark Ages" when life was bleak and people died in droves and currently we're living a life of excess that is the exact opposite.

And interestingly, I think it might be a good thing for humanity to get this wake up call because it'll force us to hit the reset button on how we see the world and our resources. It will also mean that we don't have to live again in the "Dark Ages" but we also can't live the life of never-ending consumption either. We'll have to find that sweet spot, or the middle ground where life is the most sustainable. It'll be a shock at first but in the end I think we'll see that living the "hungry ghost" life of over-consumption was never really realistic in the first place.

~Peace to all beings~

Labour Conference 2010: Life in the Northern Quarter

This year I stayed in an one bedroom flat in the “Northern Quarter” of Manchester. A world heritage site no less. This was not only cheaper and better than a hotel but it was also a far more interesting and cosmopolitan place to stay than the City centre. 

In the mornings I was able to try and shake off the Midland Hotel induced hangovers with an early morning jog around the nearby canals. 

On route I would pass an area near Piccadilly Basin which had been closed off to the public and was being used to film a Hollywood film based on the “Captain America” comics.   Apparently this part of Manchester resembles 1940’s Lower East Side, New York.  It was strange to see cast members walking around dressed as “gangsters and molls” in period hats and trench coats while texting or sheltering from the rain using modern umbrellas. 

Running (very slowly of course) along the canal’s you become very aware of Manchester’s industrial history and the “dark satanic mills” that we sang about a few hours ago earlier at conference.  Many old mills have been turned into apartment blocks similar to the old Bryant and May Matchmakers building in Bow.  There is even an area called New Islington to make me feel at home. The best run to appreciate the new and the old Manchester was along the Ashton Canal to the Man City stadium and back. 

On a sad and depressing point I did notice that thanks to the Banker's recession work has stopped on many construction sites which are moth balled and up for sale.  Some of the newly built apartments and office buildings also appear to be mostly empty.  Regeneration of this part of Manchester is obviously in trouble.

Massive CONDEM public spending cuts will just further destroy confidence. This will mean more construction workers will be unemployed, less taxes will be paid and more money needed to pay benefits.  Which will increase pressure on the deficit and mean more public spending cuts which will mean....We need our new British superhero, Ed M, to save us!

Labour Conference 2010: Harriet Harman, the Red Flag and the New Jerusalem

Labour Party deputy leader, Harriet Harman, gave a witty and unifying closing speech to this year’s conference. 

I liked the self deprecating joke that she was only elected the "most fanciable MP" in a Sky News poll because her husband, Jack Dromey - had used "the Unite block vote". We then all sang the “Red Flag” followed by “Jerusalem”.  Then after several minutes of clapping and cheering Ed, there was the traditional mad rush to pick up luggage and get to the train station. 

Beforehand John Denham MP had given a cracking speech warning the 4,500 Labour Councillors that they will have the fight of their lives to make sure they protect essential public services.  He also exposed the crucial flaw in Cameron’s “Big Society” that volunteers want to supplement public services not replace them. He gave the example of people who volunteer to “befriend” pensioners but they would not want to replace the services of the district nurse. 

Harriet was then introduced by UNISON activist, Norma Stephenson, who had been elected the Chair of the Labour Party NEC last night. 

Building a New Jerusalem is now on hold until 2015 at the latest.  The opportunity may come sooner but it is best to plan for a long and at times very painful slog back to power.

I'll be trying to catch up on my posts about conference over the next few days.

Tea Party Colouring Book

Fans of the Tea Party movement now have their own colouring book. Passages include, "When taxes are too high, the high tax takes away jobs and freedom. In 1773 we had a Tea Party and this led to freedom from high taxes. Today we are having another Tea Party and this will lead to freedom from high taxes again!" The publishers deny that they are trying to make a political statement, as they also publish an Obama colouring book and many other topics. What other subjects do you think deserve the colouring in treatment?

Why Miliband had to go.

There is some good analysis here of why David Milliband decided he should leave frontbench politics - mainly because he felt he would be put under unbearable scrutiny from the media about any perceived differences between him and his brother. You can see his interview with Nick Robinson on the day of his departure in the video above. For an alternative point of view, here is an animated version of the Miliband's rivalry, courtesy of Newsnight and Taiwan's "Apple Daily".

Best Shots (134) ~ Guillaume Herbaut

(161) Guillaume Herbaut ~ 'Beautiful isn't enough' . . . an Albanian woman
involved in a blood feud (29 September 2010).

New Forms of Media Publishing

Williams,T.B. (2008) The social networks had a great impact on the way that people are communicating. In the last five years the way which young people are communicating has been changed.  In today’s new technologies people read and write more than 20 years ago. Such a technology has made the “Words” to become an integral part of today's online world. Beside this, words sound, video and images are also playing an important role.

              Source: http://www.google.com.my/imglanding?q=social+networking&hl=en&biw=1063&bih=696&gbv=2&tbs

Muise, A. (2009) Facebook is a social network that provides easy access for people to connect with friends. However, most of the student using the popular social networking site such as Facebook and MySpace. By using these networks they are able to create their own pages followed by displaying photographs, inserting music, videos and blogs. The survey shows that Facebook causes jealousy and it will put negative effects on sexual relations.

                            source: http://www.google.com.my/imglanding?q=facebook&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1063&bih

These social networks give the capability to the user linked themselves to the pages of other friends and send messages around the social network. Thus, people spending hours in front of the computer screen while they are not aware of the circumstances, that by spending too much of time on net, it will isolate them from visual communication in society.

According to Scharber (2009) the growth of Internet and technologies has rapidly overcome the old literacy. For example, the survey shows that the people in age 15-19 read only six minutes per week while they spend about 50 minutes each day to playing games and serving internet.

Wikis is anther social networks which many people are refer to it and get their particular information.  According to Knobel, M and Lankshear, C. (2009) a wiki is a compilation of WebPages whose content is typically organized around a specific topic. Users easily can edit, add or delete the content of the page. This means that we may not see the page which we already saw yesterday for today.

References                                                               

Williams,T.B. (2008) Tomorrow Will Not Be Like Today": Literacy and Identity in a World of Multiliteracies. [Online] 51(8);

pp.682.686. Available at: http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/40012405.pdf

[Accessed 22 September 2010].

Scharber, C. (2009) Bridges between Old and New Literacies Practices. [Online] 52(5); pp. 433-437. Available at:http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/27639211.pdf

[Accessed 22 September 2010].

Muise, A., Christofides, E., and Desmarais, S. (2009) More Information than You Ever Wanted: Does Facebook Bring Out the Green-Eyed Monster of Jealousy? [Online] 12(4); pp.441-444. Available at: http://web.ebscohost.com.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=4&hid=11&sid=2c48dbf0-46fa-4d91-926c-07f7aebc2966%40sessionmgr12

[Accessed 22 September 2010].

 Knobel, M and Lankshear, C. (2009). Wikis, Digital Literacies, and Professional Growth. [Online] 52(7); pp. 631-634. Available at: http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/20468416.pdf

[Accessed 23 September 2010].

Types of Blogging Communities

Zawilinski, L. (2009) the online community is playing an important role in Internet. It’s a set of new technologies for literacy such as blogs, e-mails, wikis, social networking or instant messages. The term community is consists of group where they are able to share their feeling, senses and interest. Bérubé, M. (2005) one of the good advantages of online community is that user are able to contact, share their idea, news, matters and communicate with each other through blogging or emails.

Nancy White (2006) there is three types of blog communities including:  the Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community, the Central Connecting Topic Community and the Boundaried Community.

Sited in Nancy's blog 

The Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community.

In this community the blog is owned by one owner or organization and it helps the readers to not only blogger, but also to be a part of community commenter. One of the most important things is that the commentors are able to response with the blogger but they are not able to control the topic.

                                                     Sited in Nancy's blog 

The Central Connecting Topic Community.

The Central Connecting Topic Centric blog community is a network structure. One of the most important things about this community is that other technologies are supporting the structure of these topic centric communities. In addition, the personal details are not revealing on the blogs, but there is possibility to share their details via instant messaging and private email.

                                                     Sited in Nancy's blog 

                                                                                             

The Boundaried Community.

The Boundaried Community is a community where readers are hosted on a particular blog. This means that, the members are required to be register and then they are able to create a blog. These types of communities have their own discussion boards, social networking features, wikis and instant messaging. For example, we can see those tools and feature in MySpace.com or Yahoo 360. There is not enough emphasis on RSS this is because those features are built into the technology.

                                                      Sited in Nancy's blog 

The Jeffooi.com is a political blog which we can see some of those communities above have been applied on to it. The readers of this blog are able to comments but they are not able to control the topic. According to (Walsh 2006, p.34) websites are not just about a good design but the audiences are also playing an important role. The audience of this blog is been specified and covered those who are only interested in politics. Moreover, the personal details are not disclosed on the website. (Schriver 1997) mentioned that hyperlinks are playing a vital role in websites to help the readers find their own pathway, thus we can see from Jeffooi.com, those important notes has been highlighted properly for readers. On the other hand, (Dubinsky, Paretti & Armstrong 2001) point out that, the online website should have a simple feature in order to make the reader comfortable and easy to understand, thus we can see from Jeffooi.com,  they have been using a simple font, colour and design.

References

Zawilinski, L. (2009) Hot Blogging: A Framework for Blogging to Promote Higher Order Thinking. [Online] 62(8);

pp. 650-661. Available at: http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/20486620.pdf?acceptTC=true[Accessed 20 September 2010].

Nancy White (2006) Trying to Explain. Blogs and Community-Launching a New Paradigm for Online Community? [Online: weblog]. Available at: http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community [Accessed 29 September 2010].

Bérubé, R. (2005) Blogging Back at the Right. [Online] 91(5);

pp. 33-34. Available at: http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/40252835.pdf

[Accessed 20 September 2010].

Walsh, M 2006, “The ‘Textual shift’: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts”, Australian journal of language and literacy, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 24-37

Schriver, KA 1997, Dynamic in document design: creating texts for readers, Wiley Computer Pub., New York.

Dubinsky, J, Paretti MC, & Armstrong, M 2001, Principles of Document Design, viewed 20 September 2010, <http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/tw/TechnicalWriting/docdesign/index.htm>

Glenn Beck, Nazi Hunter

Glenn Beck ~ Both Portraits
© Nigel Parry for The New York Times.

Today we are treated to the latest installment in the series of New York Times puff pieces on right wing ideologues. We already have had portraits (all by celeb photographer Nigel Parry) of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. This time the portraits are less scary, but they remind me of Richard Avedon's portrait of Karl Rove - the similarly buffoonish look on both faces is striking.

Karl Rove, Republican National Convention, NY,
2004 © Richard Avedon.

The problem, of course, is that Rove and Beck are no joke. They use their cleverness in more or less thoroughly malevolent ways. The Times reporter depicts Beck as genial and approachable and sensitive and so forth. The guy (Beck) is full of it. And instead of an argument he regularly simply closes off debate in the best way possible - accusing those he disagrees with of being Nazis.

ON THE AIR and in person, Beck often goes on long stretches that are warm, conciliatory and even plaintive. He says he yearns for the cohesion in the country after Sept. 11, 2001, and will speak in paragraphs that could fit into Barack Obama’s plea for national unity in his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. “There’s a lot we can disagree on, but our values and principles can unite us,” Beck said from the Lincoln Memorial.

But “standing together” can be a tough sell from someone who is so willing to pick at some of the nation’s most tender scabs. Beck’s statement that the president’s legislative agenda is driven by Obama’s desire for “reparations” and his “desire to settle old racial scores” is hardly a uniting message. While public figures tend to eventually learn (some the hard way) that Nazi, Hitler and Holocaust comparisons inevitably offend a lot of people, Beck seems not to care. In a forthcoming book about Beck, “Tears of a Clown,” the Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank writes that in the first 14 months of Beck’s Fox News show, Beck and his guests mentioned fascism 172 times, Nazis 134 times, Hitler 115 times, the Holocaust 58 times and Joseph Goebbels 8 times.

In his quest to root out progressives, Beck compared himself to Israeli Nazi-hunters. “To the day I die I am going to be a progressive-hunter,” he vowed on his radio show earlier this year. “I’m going to find these people that have done this to our country and expose them. I don’t care if they’re in nursing homes.”

“Raising questions” is Beck’s favorite rhetorical method. Last year during the health care debate, Beck compared Obama’s economic agenda to Nazi Germany — specifically he paralleled the White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s statement that “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste” with how Hitler used the world economic crisis as a pivot point. Photos of Hitler, Stalin and Lenin then appeared on screen. “Is this where we’re headed?” Beck asked. He allowed that “I am not predicting that we go down that road.”

If you treat people as Nazis, then you hound them like criminals and dismiss (or worse, eliminate) them rather than, say, addressing them as a interlocutors to be taken seriously enough to disagree with. That's Glenn Beck, Nazi hunter.
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Update: Today, Michael Shaw, perpetrator of the terrific BagNewsNotes, poses this nice query the folks at The Times at HuffPost: just what is your puffery meant to convey? The problem with The Times is that when their ideology is not just blatant (as when they disparage any vaguely progressive politics), they tend to pretend that being objective means being 'non-committal' or 'neutral' (whatever that means). And they end up being irresponsible by giving right-wing nutters a pass.

Pope Will Meet Sarkozy in October

This article comes from the Catholic Herald.

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Pope to meet Sarkozy in Italy

By Nibin Thomas

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will meet Pope Benedict during his trip to Italy in October, the Vatican has confirmed. Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi has said the meeting is scheduled for October 8.

One of the issues expected to feature during the meeting is France’s crackdown on and deportation of thousands of the country’s Roma and Gypsy populations.

In July this year Mr Sarkozy announced that he had asked his interior minister to “put an end to the wild squatting and
 camping of the Roma”, linking the community to crime, prostitution and child exploitation.

The French president’s comments led to the Holy Father himself addressing French pilgrims 

about the need to “accommodate legitimate human diversities, just as Jesus came to assemble men from all nations and speaking every language”.

This was seen as a rebuke of the French administration’s policies, which was also being criticised by the European Union and human rights groups.

Soon after, Alain Minc, an adviser to President Sarkozy, attacked the Pontiff, saying: “Anyone can say anything about the Roma situation, but not a German pope. John Paul II perhaps, but not him.” The French daily La Croix reported that the Vatican was unhappy about the comments.

The meeting with the Pope is being interpreted as an attempt by Mr Sarkozy to improve his approval rating among French Catholics, which has fallen drastically over the last year.

Horrible Histories

Some members of Year 13 suggested a recent episode of Horrible Histories as it includes the religious swingometer! The Horrible Histories are great for finding out gory and fun facts from lots of different periods of history and it now has a good website with games. The episodes are all on BBC iplayer. The swingometer swings into action 22.02 minutes into Episode 11.

Blog Classification

Personally, when I look at an article, a blog or online news, the first thing which it seizes my attention is the topic and writhing style of that particular site. Somehow, blogs look likes planets and they look unclear from distance, thus the style, format, topic and audience are playing a vital role to build up a powerful blog. According to (Walsh 2006, p.34) audience and context of the weblogs or websites are one of the first top priorities for designing a good document.

                          (  For example this title is enough clear to understand )

          source: http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://blogs.worldbank.org/files/dmblog/newDMblog.jpg&imgrefurl

According to Technorati.com (2008), there are verities of blogs which can be categorized by different targeted audience such as politics blog, business blog, sport blog, entertaining blog or a lifestyle blog. Flierl, R and Fowler, H (2007) points out that one of the biggest advantages about blogs is that, it has provided a valid value towards student writing and their knowledge. With blogs, university student works can be read by everyone who has serving blogs.

For example if we compare the Technorati.com with taxonomy of blogs, we can see from Technorati.com there are so many links which is has been provided to link us to the other web pages. On the other hand, from the taxonomy of blogs we can see only text which is not really interesting for readers. 

Hedden, H.  (2010)  classifying those documents that we have use for our weblogs is very challenging, but the most important things which we should be more consider about is, the classification will give us the power to organize the universe. For example you can visit Micro-Blogs

Reference

Walsh, M 2006, “The ‘Textual shift’: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts”, Australian journal of language and literacy, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 24-37

Heather Hedden (2010) Trying to Explain. THE TAXONOMY BLOG 6 January 2010 [Online: weblog]. Available at: http://thetaxonomyblog.wordpress.com/ [Accessed 15 September 2010].

Blog directory 2008, Technorati, viewed 15 September 2010, <http://technorati.com/blogs/directory>

 Flierl, R and Fowler, H (2007) Educational Uses of Blogs and Wikis. [Online] 89(3);

Available at:  http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/20442460.pdf?acceptTC=true

[Accessed 15 September 2010].

Labour Party Conference 2010: ETUC Day of Action

Today is European Trade Union's Council "Day of Action" against spending cuts.

Across Europe there was lobbies and protests against cuts.  I missed a Lobby this lunchtime outside Manchester City hall, since I got the timings wrong. 

Local UNISON member Grant Higgerson (carrying placard) had been at the lobby.  Since he had taken the whole afternoon off to attend the rally he had decided to spend the rest of the time reminding Labour Party delegates and visitors about the importance of saving public pension schemes.  Grant is supported here by another trade unionist - from the NUJ!

Update: Picture of UNISON Bromley Health Branch banner at a ETUC rally.

Health SGE member Mike Davey on real left.

Blog as Current Phenomenon

Dave White (2009) majority of bloggers expose their personal and professional feeling based on sincere, humorous and conversational.

                                                                                   Source: http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://www.seohosting.com 


Gary (2008) the term blogosphere refers to the world wide collected works of blogs and can be categorized by variety, device, media and legal status of the publisher, thus there are different type of blogs. For example, vlog (a blog which contains video clips). Neukirchen , C (2007) tumblelogs (a blog with short posts), linklog (a blog with comprising links), moblog (a blog which works through mobile phones) . Michael, A (2009) points out that, 72% of bloggers are hobbyists who they are not make any income from blogging. While, 2/3 of professional bloggers are male, followed by 60% of them are between 18 – 44 years old. 

                                                                                Source: http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://www.problogger.net

To see an example of vlog, you can visit http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/

To see an example of tumblelogs you can visit http://kottke.org/05/10/tumblelogs

To see an example of  moblog you can visit http://sampath.wordpress.com/moblog/

According to the Microsoft.com 2008, only 34% of Malaysian desire to have their own personal space, while 48% likes to share their thoughts around the world, 54% of Malaysian blogger are women. Conversely, from the article in Guardian, only 13% of UK’s people are reading blogs during weeks, compared with 12% in Denmark and 25% in France. 

 

                                                             Source: http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mirlme.com   

There are variety types of blog sites from the net such as sport blog, travel blog, politics blog, and fashion blog. However in some country such as Iran, it is hard for the authors to publish his/her own blog because the government has control over the Internet. In many cases the philosopher in Iran does not have the freedom to fear their thinking. Click on link to see more Info http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1394/i.html

Bayles, M. (2006) in 2001, after 9/11 attack, Hossein Derakhsshan had made a Farsi weblog for Iranian. The main benefit of his purpose was to give other Iranian a voice to give their opinion and their critics. In addition, the Farsi blogs raises the young people who were blocked by government or in another word who did not had a opportunity to throw his/her expression or idea within the society. However, in 20004, the number of Farsi we log achieved to 64.000 and counting. 

Reference

Bayles, M. (2006) Iran's Authentic Voices. [Online] 30(2):

pp. 117-118. Available at:http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/40261097.pdf?acceptTC=true[Accessed 15 September 2010]. 

Brook, S. (2006), Blogs struggle to impress in UK, The Guardian. 20^th June [Online]. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jun/20/pressandpublishing.newmedia

[Accessed 17 September 2010].

Microsoft.com (2008) Women Rule in Malaysian Blogosphere [Online]. Available at:

http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/press/archive2006/linkpage4337.mspx

[Accessed 11 September 2010].

Michael Arrington (2009) Trying to Explain. State Of The Blogosphere: The FullBlogWorld Presentation [Online: weblog]. Available at:http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/16/2009-state-of-the-blogosphere-the-full-blogworld-presentation/ [Accessed 16 September 2010].

Neukirchen C., “a Tumblelog: projectionist”,

available at: http://project.ioni.st/

[Accessed on 15 September 2010].

Gary B. S., Thomas J. C and Misty E. V. (2008) Discovering Computers 2008.  Chapter 2: The world wide web pg 82. Thomson Course technology, USA.

Dave White (2009) Trying to Explain. Day 2: The What and Why of Blogging [Online: weblog]. Available at: http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-2-the-what-and-why/[Accessed 14 September 2010].