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At the tafe Internets course I learnt that on the Google there is a function called Google trends. You type things in to see their relevance to other things and you can separate them by what is called a comma.
Behold the graphs I made below:
Posts Tagged Andrew Bolt
Trollumnist Andrew Bolt is not one given to modesty. Here he is today reviewing his own blog:
… more essential reading than ever.
His years-old “book” (can a collection of newspaper columns really be called a book?), on the other hand, was apparently not essential reading for one previous owner who gave or sold it to a second-hand book shop in Richmond where Ant Rogenous and I, along with a fellow Groupthinker, found it one day. Torn as to where the book should actually be displayed, we took some photos of said book in various sections of the store to see how it looked.
Steve Clemons, who writes “The Washington Note” has closed comments on his blog and remarks –
The comments on my blog have grown increasingly vile — and are not in any way constructive, civil, fair-minded, or policy-oriented. I am turning them off …
… I’m off to Havana Cuba for a research trip for a few days and have no interest or time in playing hall monitor for folks who need to grow up …
… I have emphasized over and over again that I am too busy to blog, do my New America Foundation work, and be a nanny for those who are not mature enough to be able to manage a civil discussion here …
… Eventually, I will review the last few weeks of comments and remove every one of them that went over the line with extremely crass and demeaning language …
… If you folks grow up, we can turn this on — but it takes shared commitment and responsibility. I won’t tolerate those who can’t be civil — on all sides of these debates …
I done wrote a short piece in today’s Crikey email about the UoEB meme.
What next? Meme, the musical, starring Bumcrabb and Bolt
Twenty four hours is a long time in today’s interconnected, intertubed world. Once upon a time a throwaway, smart-arse remark by a panelist on a political TV chat show would take days to grow into a meme, relying on being quoted in newspaper columns and replayed on evening news. But in the age of Twitter it takes only 24 hours for that smart-arse remark to go from being uttered on Insiders to being printed on a T-shirt and plastered all over the blogosphere.
Groupthink Couture Pty Ltd has also released some new t-shirts, as referenced in the article.
Keep Bolt close to your heart
If you haven’t seen yesterday’s Insiders you simply must go to iView and watch from about the 44 minute mark. Andrew Bolt tells everyone that they should be more like him and do more learning about climate change, and Annabel Crabb tells everyone exactly what sort of learning Bolt is talking about.
Annabel Crabb: Can we be realistic about what’s going on here. This is the pointy end of the lobbying process for a piece of legislation that’s waiting, having it’s fate decided in the Senate, right? Everybody involved is bringing out their best material, you know, and whether it’s Peter Garrett flee your homes or whether it’s (motions to Bolt) you know …
Andrew Bolt: You’re right, but I think there’s a wider thing happening here in the psychology of the debate. I think the scaremongering has got to such absurd levels, absurd levels, that a lot of people even if they believe as you do in the theory and all that are sceptical.
AC: I’m not a practitioner in this debate like you are, all I’m saying is …
AB: You don’t believe it? I thought you did …
AC: … well, you’re a lobbyist too …
AB: … let me finish my point please.
AC: … you are!
AB: I’m a sceptic! I am! But the point is there are so many scares around: there’s apocalyptic fires, run for your lives the seas are coming, everything …
Barrie Cassidy: At both extremes of the debate to be fair.
AC: … I mean you post stuff on your blog that’s, you know, a new study from the University of East Bumcrack about, you know, penguins still being alive in …
AB: At least I study it. You don’t. So perhaps you let me finish my point until you know something about it.
But once you’ve done your Bolt-style learning you obviously want to tell the world so that everyone knows you’re smart with knowledge about the climate change con. With that in mind, make sure you go buy a t-shirt from Groupthink Jason’s very, very nice t-shirt shop.
I went on Insiders and all I got was this dumb t-shirt
All proceeds from sales go to Annabel Crabb’s chosen charity: Mallala Hospital in South Australia. Do it.
