Tina Brown compared bloggers to the...: "Tina Brown compared bloggers to the East German secret police in Sunday's Washington Post:
We are in the Eggshell Era, in which everyone has to tiptoe around because there's a world of busybodies out there who are being paid to catch you out -- and a public that is slowly being trained to accept a culture of finks. We're always under surveillance; cameras watch us wherever we go; paparazzi make small fortunes snapping glamour goddesses picking their noses; everything is on tape, with transcripts available. No matter who you are, someone is ready and willing to rat you out. Even the rats themselves have to look over their shoulders, because some smaller rat is always waiting in the wings. Bloggers are the new Stasi. All the timidity this engenders, all this watching your mouth has started to feel positively un-American.
I'm going to report her for this."
(Via Workbench.)
8:25:33 PM.
Wonderful and very welcome beautiful weather hit Stoke Newington over the weekend and everyone that had felt trapped in their homes over the winter months went to the park to play tennis, football or drums, and walk, cycle, skate, and have a fine old time in the warm sunshine. The park was bursting at the seams with people and the bins overflowed so that people tidily piled their garbage against them. Cafe and park staff were everywhere picking up litter.
Stoke Newington's first tree to come into leaf every year once again delivered its leaves to us and in a week or two the small horse chestnut will look like a large green pom-pom in the park signalling that summer is on the way.
