Stephen Fry
The Prevent programme was developed to combat home-grown terrorism after the 7 July bombings in 2005.The final draft is believed to propose to “expand Prevent programmes to social media sites to draw on the expertise of internet experts”
Twitter,the social media site popular with the likes of raconteur Stephen Fry and columnist Charlie Brooker, will be asked to identify people who are “vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism” as part of the government’s redrawn counter-terrorism programme to be detailed on Tuesday.
Stephen Fry
The Prevent programme was developed to combat home-grown terrorism after the 7 July bombings in 2005.The final draft is believed to propose to “expand Prevent programmes to social media sites to draw on the expertise of internet experts”
Utilising a version of Twitter’s revolutionary, popular and incredibly accurate “Who To Follow” feature, will attempt to pinpoint those who use Twitter, known as “Twitterers”, who may, in the words of Theresa May, “be close to attempting to use the internet to spread fear and terror”.
“The Twitter ‘who to follow’ recommendations are easily the most beneficial way to use Twitter to find like minded people and by tweaking the algorithms slightly we can easily detect those who may, at some stage in the future, may intend to do harm to this country, or indeed other countries” a Twitter social media guru claimed today.
One “key message” of the document is that it is not a programme to spy on Muslim communities, but doctors will be asked to identify people who may be “vulnerable” to recruitment by terrorist groups, especially by use of popular Twitter wordplay games, using what is known as “hashtag games”
David Cameron has pushed through the change despite opposition from Nick Clegg and Charles Farr, the head of the office of security and counter-terrorism, arguing that such engagement is like “turning to a rightwing fascist party to fight a violent white supremacist movement or using Myspace to crush Bebo”.
“If we had these measures in place a few years ago then perhaps we could have arrested Paul Chambers before he blew up an airport” said Cameron in a press conference on Tuesday. When it was pointed out to the prime minister that Chambers had not actually blown up an airport, or indeed even threatened to do so in anything other than a light hearted way, the prime minister dismissed this as “mere details” which “showed the policy worked” even before it’s inception. When pressed on this the press conference was adjourned.
When the home secretary’s office was asked about using a similar policy on Facebook the official response was “We don’t do Facebook, we find their privacy policies to be intrusive.”
(Inspired by this. http://bit.ly/iU2s5r)
That’s them all I have no doubt missed a couple of votes, but I don’t think the winner matters, this is a Dylan primer for those who don’t know him, and perhaps a reminder for those who may have forgotten a few along the way.
Thanks to everyone who contributed. The Twitter search for the hashtag is here http://bit.ly/jDkWSO as it may continue for a while yet, but I have stopped counting.
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In September 1969 David Crosby’s girlfriend Christine Gail Hinton was killed in a car crash, and her death, and the effect it had on him is writ large throughout this album, which is dedicated to “My Lady Christine”. An album of grief and an album of acceptance and of healing it is, to my mind, one of the most beautiful and underrated albums of the 20th century.
It’s the kind of album that only appears rarely, when everything falls right, when the right music meets the perfect lyrics and the record button has been pressed, this album occurred in an almost shambolic way, with Crosby wasting time getting high and partying, then bringing musicians in to record,often the best tracks came from jams, with Jerry Garcia deserving a lot of praise for his contributions to the whole album.
In addition to Garcia it features a supporting cast of the big names of the time, Neil Young, Graham Nash, Joni Mitchell and various members of Santana and Jefferson Airplane all drift in and out of the album, an album that just seemed to happen, the opener “Music Is Love” was just Crosby,Young and Nash singing the title over and over, luckily a tape happened to be rolling.
It’s tough to pick out highlights, it’s a short album that flows almost perfectly, but “I’d Swear There Was Somebody Here” which closes the album is outstanding, with Crosby wordlessly chanting on a mutilayered masterpiece, one recorded and finished within 15 minutes, with no retakes.
It’s tough to know if “If I Could Only Remember My Name” gave Crosby any closure, any sense of peace, he certainly didn’t record any more solo work of nearly two decades afterwards and descended into a period of drug abuse that is pretty much unrivalled, but as a tribute to someone he loved, as a way of saying “goodbye”, it is beautiful, and it is heartwarming, and it deserves to be heard more.
Listen on Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/12USOTZV9btHrSAb3YB1Ak
It’s been a good while since I’ve blogged about the appeal,and there has been very little written on the @twjoketrialfund account too. This is because, although there is a lot of movement behind the scenes to do with various aspects of the appeal, fundraising etc, there is nothing going on that is tweetable, not yet.
That will change over the coming weeks and until then I have had an idea for a simple method to raise the profile of the campaign.
The idea is this, people video themselves saying “I am Spartacus” and send them to me. I will join them all together and upload it to Youtube/Vimeo, anywhere that videos get uploaded to. If you want to have your twitter name written underneath you then that is cool, but I want it simple.
I need a lot of these to make it a decent length, but I will use whatever I get and if it is a 3 second video of 7 people then so be it, but I think this could look great if a decent number of people get behind it.
I don’t mind if people want to hide their faces, if people want to have their kids or pets saying it then that’s fine too. Any videos that say anything other than “I am Spartacus” will probably not be used, any videos with nudity will probably not be used. If you want to get creative then do it, if you don’t want to do it then RT this if you think some of your followers might.
Send the videos to Twitterjoketrialfund(at)gmail(dot)com, include your Twitter name in the body of the email and put “I am Spartacus” in the subject line.
You can add channels to your Sky box not available through the service, these channels can be viewed after you have cancelled your Sky subscription (obviously pausing/recording etc functions are lost)
To add channels to your “Other Channels” option, do the following -
With your digibox turned on, press the “Services” button (near the top of the remote).
Select number 4 (System Setup), and then 4 again (“Add Channels”).
In the appropriate fields enter the following (you move through the fields using the up and down arrow keys).
In the Frequency field enter: [see list below]
The next three fields are toggle fields, i.e. using the left and right arrows will change the value.
Toggle Polarisation to : [see list below]
Toggle Symbol Rate to: [see list below]
Toggle FEC to : [see list below]
Then select the last button - Find Channels.
After a few seconds the channels should appear. Use the Yellow button to place a tick beside the ones you want and when you’ve finished ticking press “Select”. These channels will now be stored.
You can view them by pressing the “Services” button, then 7 “Other Channels” (Other Channels is option 9 on Sky+ and Sky+ HD), use the arrow keys to move to the channel you want and press “Select”.
LIST OF CHANNELS (This is an old list and is subject to change)
BBC4 changed different frequencies on SKY in October
Freq 10.80275
Polarisation Horizontal
Symbol Rate 22
FEC 5/6
ITV Frequencies.
10.758 V 22.0 5/6
ITV 1 London
ITV 2
CITV (0700-1900)
ITV 4
Men & Motors
ITV 1 Granada
ITV 1 Anglia North
ITV 1 Central West
10832 H 22.0 5/6
ITV 4 +1
ITV 1 Thames Valley North
ITV 1 Central East
ITV 1 Wales
ITV 1 West
ITV 1 Westcountry South
ITV 1 Border England
10891 H 22.0 5/6
ITV 1 Border Scotland
ITV 1 Tyne Tees North
ITV 1 Meridian South
ITV 1 Meridian South East
ITV 1 Anglia South
ITV 1 Yorkshire West
ITV 2 +1
10906 V 22.0 5/6
Channel TV
STV North
STV West
STV East
Ulster TV
ITV 3
ITV 3 +1 (1900-0700)
BBC Frequencies
10.773, H, 22.0, 5/6
BBC One London
BBC Two England
BBC Three (1900-0600)
BBC One Northern Ireland
Five
10788 V 22.0 5/6
BBC One West Midlands
BBC One North West
BBC One East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
BBC One Yorkshire & North Midlands
BBC One East Midlands
BBC One East
10803 H 22.0 5/6
BBC One Wales
BBC Two Wales
BBC One Scotland
BBC Two Scotland
BBC Two N. Ireland
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
10818 V 22.0 5/6
BBC One West
BBC One South East
BBC One South
BBC One South West
BBC One North East & Cumbria
BBC One Oxford
10847 V 22.0 5/6
BBC One Cambridge
BBC One Channel Islands
BBC HD UK
11954 H 27.5 2/3
BBC News
BBC Parliament
BBC Alba
BBCi Stream 4 0
BBCi Stream 4 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4 DAB
BBC Radio 4 LW
BBC Radio Scotland AM
BBC Radio Wales FM
BBC Radio Ulster
BBC Asian Network
BBC World Service UK
BBC Radio Cymru
BBC 1Xtra
BBC 6 Music
BBC Radio 7
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
BBC London 94.9 FM
There are more channels available, google is your best friend.