Sunday 28 October 2007

The Shutting Down of British Blogs

For weblogs class we have been told to investigate about the shutting down of some British blog sites because of libel and asked what laws were broken because of what was said in Craig Murray’s political blog about Alisher Usmanov’s character. He was motivated to do so because of Mr Usmanov’s investment in arsenal football club. The statements in his blog were about the torture of prisoners for information in Uzbekistan. This next paragraph was copied from wikipedia.
He wrote in 2003 In a letter to his employers, in response to a speech by George W. Bush, "when it comes to the Karimov regime, systematic torture and rape appear to be treated as peccadilloes, not to affect the relationship and to be downplayed in the international fora ... I hope that once the present crisis is over we will make plain to the U.S., at senior level, our serious concern over their policy in Uzbekistan.
This shows his opinion about Mr Usmanov and here is a link to some of Craig Murray’s blogs that have been reposted Craig's reposts
And even when Mr Usmanov’s lawyers threatened to sue the blog sites if they didn’t take all the posts off Craig Murray welcomed his lawyers to come after him which the never pursued any case against him which in my personal opinion looks a bit strange. So this leads me to believe there is maybe truth in what Craig Murray is saying.

Sunday 14 October 2007

Duthie Park

yeah i was a bit disappointed to see it aint as good as i remember no talking cactus for one and it getting a bit well ummm crap for want of a better work but i did take some artsy pics when i was there.














Monday 8 October 2007

Today in college

In weblogs we watched a documentry on BBC radio 1 although i aint a fan of them i prefer northsound myself i noticed that alot of work goes into the making of radio 1 shows they have to plan what songs are played at the right times the only have a set amount of times a day they can play 35 popular chart hits a day so they have to choose wisely for the audience.

The Show's
Chris Moyels Breakfast Show 6:30AM till 10AM

jo whiley 10AM till 12:45PM Newsbeat till 1PM

Edith Bowman 1PM till 4PM

Sara Cox 4PM till 7PM Newsbeat at 5:45PM

Zane Lowe 7PM till 9PM

Club DJ's 9PM till 10PM (a different DJ everyday Throughout the week)

Colin Murray 10PM till 12AM
For all the listings go to BBC Radio 1
They also have the live lounge were artist's can perform live tracks on air. most of the music on radio one during the day is chart orientated but when Zane Lowe's Show starts the music is more specialised from Rock to RnB

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1 No rude comments as i will delete them
2 No spam i hate spam both kinds
3 No links to dodgy sites
4 No posting inappropriate pic's

that is all!!!