We were unable to make it to the final ceremony in Rotterdam last weekend and so we only just got to know the news. The awards for the Th!nkaboutit pan-European blogging competition organised by the European Journalism Centre have been announced. J’accuse is honoured and pleased to announce that it was selected as one of the 20 blogs awarded with the Quality Blogger Award.
Overall winner of the competition was UK Blogger, Etan Smallman.
The Italian newspaper La Stampa reports the story of Salvatore Cancemi, captain of the Italian fishing boat “Twenty Two”. On a stromy night Captain Cancemi and his crew defied the odds and bad weather and saved 300 souls from the sea. They returned to Lampedusa to a heroes welcome. Lampedusa too suffers wave upon wave of immigrants it can hardly carry but the people of Lampedusa could only, rightly, appreciate the human (and super-human) act of kindness and bravery performed by the crew of “Twenty Two”. The UNHCR has awarded Captain Cancemi the prize: “Per mare. Al coraggio di chi salva vite umane”.
From La Stampa:
or why netiquette is another way of setting standards in blogging and why Vivamalta.org went one up on Running Commentary
I had almost let this subject to rest. There is after all, only a minimum amount of reasoning that can be had with extremists. I had after all been told that netiquette should be stuffed and that I was just being bitchy.
It is a bit hard to take someone who cross-references Wayne’s World (!!) and blogging seriously but when you are arguing with someone who is so far out of their depth you have two options: either try to outshout them (but then you risk getting dragged to their level before you can say “I’ve got more hits than you”) or you just stand by quietly and watch them make sufficient fools of themselves. I reckoned that the second option worked for the PN for so long why should it not work for myself?
So…
“e ‘ntru u culu all’opposizione!”
Italian comedian Antonio Albanese in a satyre of the politician “Cetto Laqualunque”.
From the Guardian (with thanks to David Friggieri for the pointer) Glasgow-born Carol Ann Duffy chooses meaty subject for first poem as poet laureate – MPs’ expenses:
POLITICS
How it makes of your face a stone
that aches to weep, of your heart a fist,
clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tongue
an iron latch with no door. How it makes of your right hand
a gauntlet, a glove-puppet of the left, of your laugh
a dry leaf blowing in the wind, of your desert island discs
hiss hiss hiss, makes of the words on your lips dice
that can throw no six. How it takes the breath
away, the piss, makes of your kiss a dropped pound coin,
makes of your promises latin, gibberish, feedback, static,
of your hair a wig, of your gait a plankwalk. How it says this –
politics – to your education education education; shouts this –
Politics! – to your health and wealth; how it roars, to your
conscience moral compass truth, POLITICS POLITICS POLITICS.
Obama’s palm… weapons of pest destruction (on the fly)
