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Listed below are comments made by Researcher 237269 between Thursday, 12th June 2008 and Thursday, 22nd October 2009.

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Question Time and the BNP 3:39pm on 22 Oct 2009 I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

-- Voltaire
A Royal web event 11:08am on 13 Feb 2009 Rory

Did yourself or any of the many web luminaries mention to each other how disappointing the new site is?

Text heavy homepage, popups to view the YouTube videos?? Poor SEO optimisation?? 4 clicks to view the virtual rooms if you know where to begin, which then opens in a new window.

Oh dear - I actually prefer the previous site.

Bruce.

http://blog.elrick.net/2009/02/12/new-look-royalgovuk/
Inauguration - were you new or old media? 2:31pm on 21 Jan 2009 I watched it from my desk at work on the dear old bbc.co.uk - excellent stream, never faltered once, though we do have a 20mb pipe here.

I blogged my way through the day here: http://blog.elrick.net/?cat=34
Twitter and a classic picture 10:41am on 16 Jan 2009 Great minds Rory, I blogged about the same thing last night:

http://blog.elrick.net/?p=544

Did you see that this Flickr user had pics uploaded before the ferries even got there!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorylam/3200086900/in/photostream/
Google - do you speak the Queen's English? 3:38pm on 19 Nov 2008 @paullloydjohnson the 'Say Who' app works brilliantly- and understands an Aberdonian accent!
Open and shut case? 5:21pm on 29 Oct 2008 Your a brave man Rob, this post is being reported as fanning the flames your DG has just tried to put out.

I'd like to comment on all of the above, but I will concentrate on this breathtaking statement:

"Errors of judgement are surely not a sacking offence?"

errors in not following your employers code of conduct and editorial guidance, right at the time your competitors and your regulator has a microscope on your organisation - surely is a sackable offence.

Also, I feel people are becoming fed up to the back teeth of people in public life bringing into disrepute the organisations they work for, and getting off scott free.

We say to ourselves 'God, if I did that at work, there would be hell to pay' and so there should be.

People need to take responsibility for their actions, this event was a serious error. I'll leave my closing statement to your boss, who puts it much better than I could, and than you did:

'It is clear from the views expressed by the public that this broadcast has caused severe offence and I share that view...This gross lapse of taste by the performers and the production team'.
Facebook's founder - too late to cash in? 01:32am on 11 Oct 2008 I saw Mark today at FOWA, the conference he addressed at ExCel after you filmed your interview.

I thought the very same that he had been through the media training mill.

He did seem to come across as someone who is genuinely focused on his product, rather than taking the money and running.

He is right that the $15bn figure is made up, a calculation based on how much Microsoft paid for 1.5% of the site last year.

Much more brave was the $1bn he turned down from Yahoo last year - that too real courage or arrogance - only time will tell.

The thing is, whatever happens to Facebook, Mr Zuckerberg has little to worry about.

In face, from his FOAW interview, sounds like he is working on the next big thing already.
Interesting Stuff 2008-06-16 2:38pm on 16 Jun 2008 I think this is the interactive service the Mirror means:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7453326.stm
Mad About Mac? 09:25am on 12 Jun 2008 The Times Online had two articles, a comment piece and a photo gallery.

Why on earth are people singling out the Beeb like this?

Get a life.

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