Archive for November, 2008
New blog category on US politics
November 7th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
As regular visitors to NightHawk will know, I’ve blogged a great deal about the primaries and presidential election in the United States over the last two years. Now the election is over, I won’t stop blogging, especially since my long-favoured candidate Barack Obama is about to enter the White House. Previously I’ve categorised my blog […]
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Is political blogging too negative?
November 7th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
“Perhaps because of the nature of the technology, there is a tendency for political blogs to have a ‘Samizdat’ style. The most popular blogs are rightwing, ranging from the considered Tory views of Iain Dale, to the vicious nihilism of Guido Fawkes. Perhaps this is simply anti-establishment. Blogs have only existed under a Labour government. […]
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The American presidential election (91)
November 5th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Last night, I stayed up watching CNN until 3 am London time before I had to crash out. By then, I was sure that Barack Obama had won the American presidential election even though the network had still not called it for the Democratic candidate. This evening, together with my American friend Eric Lee, I […]
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The American presidential election (90)
November 5th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Thank you, America.
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The American presidential election (89)
November 4th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
“The usage of the two campaign Web sites (www.johnmccain.com and www.barackobama.com) can be tracked like any other large Web site via services like Hitwise, Alexa, Compete and Google Trends, to name a few. Overall, traffic to the campaign Web sites shows very clear trends regardless of data source. Hitwise shows a consistent 2-to-1 advantage in […]
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The American presidential election (88)
November 3rd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I first blogged about Barack Obama on 12 April 2004 [see that posting here]. I blogged 11 times on the Illinois Senate race won by Obama on 4 November 2004. In my last posting on the election, I wrote: “I was delighted to see Barack Obama become the junior senator for Illinois and the only […]
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What is a quantum of solace?
November 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I’m off this evening to see the new James Bond film. But just what exactly is a “Quantum Of Solace”? As a teenager in the 1960s when the Bond movies first appeared, I read all 14 of Ian Fleming’s 007 books and still have copies on my shelves. Two of the books were in fact […]
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