| Blog Review 628 |
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| Written by Netsmith |
| Saturday, 14 June 2008 12:22 |
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A slight bop on the nose for Paul Krugman. If you're going to claim that the gutting of the food inspection bureaucracy has led to rampant food poisoning, it would help if, following said gutting, food poisoning had actually risen. Playing with numbers: true, there are only 3 million registered Irish voters: but their voice is perhaps louder than those of Europe's 9,225 legislators? Or perhaps should be? The Charity Commission believes that blogs are not educational. (More here.) From that we might conclude that the Charities Commission in incapable of recognising what is in fact educational....which raises the question of why they are ruling on the tax breaks that educational charities should or should not get? How to have very low administrative costs like Medicare: don't do any administrating. There are indeed always unintended consequences. Just another example of why planning an economy or its manpower doesn't work. As is said, if this lot are against it (whatever it is) there's almost certainly something to be said for it. And finally, perhaps not the best product design of all time and bringing home the full horror of the housing crash.
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Dr. Krugman's eternal naysaying
written by a Duoist, June 15, 2008
There is an entire light industry growing in the United States to correct Dr. Krugman's notorious slant of economic facts to express his very pessimistic psychology and support his socialist ideo/theology.
Giving context to the Charity Commission quotes
written by Bob Deed, June 16, 2008
On the subject of the Charity Commission and social media, I read the guidance differently.
"A modern example might be a ‘wiki’ site which might contain information about historical events but, as the content is superficial and this information is not verified in any way, it would not be accepted as having educational value without positive evidence.The Commission, having been satisfied on the evidence before it, accepted in a particular case that an interactive website was a process capable of delivering educative value as it was capable of delivering learning through improving the student's analytical and learning skills." In context it is giving examples rather than handing down an edict. Its talking about particular cases. "An individual’s blog, on the other hand, is not likely to be of educative value, as neither the subject matter nor the process is of educational value." That's a particular example again. Its not saying that all blogs are likely to have neither an educational subjct or process. We might not like bureaucracy but lets be fair to the bureaucrats.
Consider the Experiance and Expertise of the Baby written by rosie, June 17, 2008
I am amazed at the extensive experience and expertise of individual bloggers that empowers so many people.
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