Rough Notes - December 11th
Welcome to iPM, Doris Lessing's favourite blog. This is where the programme starts to take shape. Thank you to the thousands who have posted or sent us an email about your postcode or the speed of your broadband connection. Some have done both and your contributions are what we are all about. Chris Vallance will be on tonight's PM to explain a little more about what we plan to do with all this info. Otherwise, it is the start of the week and the page is blank. If there's a story or a particular issue that you'd like to hear on the programme - post away. Failing that you can always send us an email - ipm {@} bbc.co.uk. I'll update this later with a few ideas of our own.
Some early thoughts:
Chris: From Uganda, some strong testimony from two doctors who are working in part of the country that's struggling to cope with the Ebola virus. If possible, I'd like to hear more from them.
Back home and to quote Big Ron "I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat." Now, the man in the middle fights back. Seen but mostly unheard, I've been looking at the blogging referee. Well, it beats the usual post match entertainment.
Marc: Get the candles out, this Saturday it'll a 'Happy 10th birthday' to www.bbc.co.uk - it began on 15 December 1997 . We plan to mark the occasion. Lord Birt was in charge at the time, if you've got a question for the former DG, let us know.
George: Following from our earlier post about sex and the internet - it has reported that one of the big porn producers Vivid is suing Youtube-alike Pornotube (Not suitable for work) for piracy - believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind in the adult industry.
And do websurfers care enough about privacy to abandon Google? Ask.com is betting they do, and is launching AskEraser, a new search service that promises not to store users' search data.
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the item on African farms and farming yesterday; Excuse me Mr&Mrs ex Dutch-people-who-invaded-Africa - did any one of your ancestors think to ask the indigenous owners of the land you moved onto - for permission? I think it's fantastic that the black Africans are actually asking the current farmers to help them with their re-ownership, how decent is that! But it is clear the the white africans still have a deep conviction that the blacks are a sub-species and incapable. the arogance of "whites" never fails to astound me. Poor Africa. with global and all I have great concerns about how it, or indeed any contry will survive but everyone needs to have locally produced food and clean water.
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Following on from your survey of who listens to PM you should consider the issues that are relevant to the listeners who are outside the UK. Here's one for example. I live in Mojacar, a lovely white hill town in southern Spain. My friends here do not get much news. Some have satellite TV, but BBC excludes any local or much national Spanish news. Those who speak Spanish may get their news from local radio but don't get UK news. Because of the EC residency rules which allow us to live anywhere in Europe no-one has surveyed how many Northern European people live in Spain. I estimate that in my village ther are about 1000 "hidden" residents. The local English speaking newspapers have no news just ads. So people down here are often very ill informed about issues. They don't exercise their right to vote and are thus dissenfranchised. (Hence no one to vote out the corrupt officials re: planning irregularities.)
Yours
Wendy Shillam
PS Its lovely and sunny here at the moment. You should send a reporter here to ask just how much English people living here know about the news issues of the day. For example many of my friends know anything about the drama that is unfloding on climate change talks.