Monday, November 16, 2009
A Welsh Obama?
The search for a Welsh Obama may well continue for some considerable time but at least we now know that the American President has something in common with one of the candidate for First Minister.
Barack Obama spoke to a group of Chinese students on Sunday night at a town hall in Shanghai where he was asked about Twitter. He replied: "I have never used Twitter but I'm an advocate of technology and not restricting internet access." This is despite the fact that he has an active Twitter account.
In the Spin Doctor column of yesterday's Wales on Sunday, Matt Withers reveals a similar denial. He reports that at last week’s hustings for the Welsh Labour leadership in Swansea talk turned to politicians’ use of social networking websites.
Carwyn Jones announced that, to reach out to voters, he used Facebook, but not Twitter. This will be news to those who follow Mr Jones’ two, separate Twitter feeds, one personal and one specifically for his leadership campaign.
Mind you, Carwyn has form on this. His current rather quiet blog is the second that that he has had in his name. There was a previous incarnation in which he mostly concentrated on the work he was doing in his constituency, or at least that is what it looked like. Because, he once told me that he had been unaware of the blog's existence for some time and had only just discovered it.
Both politicians clearly employ people to do all this new technology stuff for them. It would just be nice if they were aware that they were doing it.
Barack Obama spoke to a group of Chinese students on Sunday night at a town hall in Shanghai where he was asked about Twitter. He replied: "I have never used Twitter but I'm an advocate of technology and not restricting internet access." This is despite the fact that he has an active Twitter account.
In the Spin Doctor column of yesterday's Wales on Sunday, Matt Withers reveals a similar denial. He reports that at last week’s hustings for the Welsh Labour leadership in Swansea talk turned to politicians’ use of social networking websites.
Carwyn Jones announced that, to reach out to voters, he used Facebook, but not Twitter. This will be news to those who follow Mr Jones’ two, separate Twitter feeds, one personal and one specifically for his leadership campaign.
Mind you, Carwyn has form on this. His current rather quiet blog is the second that that he has had in his name. There was a previous incarnation in which he mostly concentrated on the work he was doing in his constituency, or at least that is what it looked like. Because, he once told me that he had been unaware of the blog's existence for some time and had only just discovered it.
Both politicians clearly employ people to do all this new technology stuff for them. It would just be nice if they were aware that they were doing it.
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yeah maybe you can laugh Che, but still you have to admire Kirsty going around the country!
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: 1:03 AM
I'm wondering why you are blogging on this contest. Its like the Jeffery Archer book "First amounst Equals" they are all equally as bad, political paperweights the trio of them!
# posted by : 7:10 PM
: 7:10 PM
"I'm wondering why you are blogging on this contest. Its like the Jeffery Archer book "First amounst Equals" they are all equally as bad, political paperweights the trio of them!"
Funny but true!
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Funny but true!
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