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mickfealty

mickfealty has written 2 posts for 2gether08

On the changing politics of the media

  Charlie Beckett from David Wilcox on Vimeo.
Years ago I had a friend who was endlessly frustrated that the Guardian newspaper never published his letters. He took it as a personal slight and the media’s general allergy to small people crying in the wilderness.
In fact, it was more likely that my friend would never compromise the [...]

‘People power will become an explosive force in history’

Matthew d’Ancona’s Coffee House quote from Gordon Brown’s lively and energetic speech to the Google Zeitgeist conference could stand as a strapline for the 2gether festival. If the key to understanding and harnessing the promise of the web in being at an authoratative centre of a innumerable series of open conversations, d’Ancona reckons that the [...]