Comments on: Where are all my fellow bloggers?

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:52:58 +0000

I’d have given my right arm to have been there but this is the first I’ve heard about it.

By: Man in a Shed

Man in a Shed — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:07:45 +0000

What do you mean not repeat the mistakes of the past ? Bretton Woods gave the world reliable currency based on gold. Brown sold out gold reserves at the bottom of the market and now wants the IMF to get rid of its supply, yet further destabilising the world just as he’s ruined us by running up unsustainable debt.

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Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:45:39 +0000

[...] idea, well executed, though Tom Watson tells me on his blog that the competition run by Oxfam was slightly short notice because the press [...]

By: Hopi Sen

Hopi Sen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:23:55 +0000

(and I suspect Tom is at the G20 for resaons as ministerial as blog related, no?)

By: Hopi Sen

Hopi Sen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:22:53 +0000

Tom, I thought you had to be one of the 50 offical “elected” g20 blog voices to get inside? Anthony painter certainly was asking for votes to get elected to be accredited.

In any case I’m a bit jealous of them – and you!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:56:29 +0000

Yes, just noticed on the site you referred Sunder to that you’re not one of the 50, but there as a mysterious ‘add on’. Most intriguing.

Anyway, you get back to informed comment on matters pertaining to support for developing countries and climate change action, because that’s what Oxfam are sort of half making space for you for.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:48:57 +0000

Paul – I think Oxfam are behind G20 voice, hence the lack of reference. I’m not one of the 50. Oh and, the reason I suspect Oxfam did not get the message out to a wider audience is that they did not get permission to blog the event until quite late.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:01:21 +0000

To be fair, Sunder, I think Oxfam, whom Tom does not reference in his post (a bit strangely, I thought) have done a fair bit of ‘outreach’ as far as I can see, with bloggers from 22 countries involved. I think the fact that British political bloggers may not hae picked up on the opportunity may reflect the relative parochialims of our scene rather than Oxfam’s outreach weaknesses.

Would be interesting, mind, to know what selection process Tom went through, mind as – with all due respect – he doesn’t strike me as a natural shoe-in as one of the 50.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:57:40 +0000

And also for Sunder: http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2009/04/02/724/

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:41:03 +0000

Sunder: http://www.whitebandaction.org/g20voice