ID cards: they’re great. Oh, no, wait, they aren’t. But this NO2ID animation is, for the song, the lyrics and the canine pianist. On a similar subject, go and pledge to refuse them (this pledge is a little more realistic than its predecessor, so doubly recommended).
I’m sure Rowan Williams would disapprove. But his speech mostly just left me impressed at the irony of a minister of religion describing bloggage (or indeed, anything else) as "paranoid fantasy, self-indulgent nonsense and dangerous bigotry". I guess he’d know…
(via Sarah, everyone and Chris B, respectively)
"Unpoliced conversation" eh! Can’t be having that. Get more listening devices out there and motivate kids to inform on their parents, that’s what I say!
John, in fairness he was describing the web in general not bloggism in particular. But I’m still slack-jawed with astonishment at this – ‘unpoliced conversation’??? In the 1980s Rowan Williams was a major intellectual contributor to ideas in the peace movement. Things change . . .
That’s interesting. The Graun ( I think; maybe the Indie) didn’t mention his reference to the Internets, just his putdown of journalists. With added snark that Williams is so uncommunicative that when journalists want a generic Christian mainstream comment they go to Murphy O’Connor – who seems to be getting good press these days.
The Times article is particularly bad for almost totally misrepresenting what the Archdruid actually said. Although he did use the phrase ‘unpoliced conversation’, which is worrying…