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The ‘Peace, Little Girl’ ad, as it is also known marked the beginning of the modern political ad. At the time, no one had ever seen anything like it and the news programs showed it a number of times. It is interesting to think about what gives it its emotional strength  Allow me to quote from my own magnum opus:

The researchers referred to the well-known ‘Peace, little girl’ advertisement shown during the Lyndon B. Johnson?s presidential campaign against Barry Goldwater in 1964 as an example. It consisted of a picture of a young girl innocently counting the leaves of a daisy. When she has counted to nine, a male voiceover begins to count down, and the camera zooms in on the little girl?s face. When the count reaches zero, the little girl is replaced with a nuclear explosion, and the voice of Johnson, saying ?These are the stakes?to make a world in which all of God?s children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die?.

The advertisement was supposed to be played only once. Such was the newsworthiness, however, that it was played twice more over that weekend by other networks and without payment. The fuss created and the replaying of the ad created a great deal of coverage for the campaign. In fact nowadays, some political campaigners in congressional elections simply make a controversial advertisement and send it to the local television stations, without paying for a spot at all. They depend on the editorial staff deciding to play it on the strength of its newsworthiness.

See also Wikipedia.

The Courts Service is now allowing you to initiate a small claim over the Internet. I was speaking about it on the George Hook Show about it yesterday. It basically allows you to get the ball
rolling online. You still have to show up and file any other papers in writing, as usual.
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VoteTube is a site that I helped set up. Basically, what it’s about is using the Internet video to get political ideas across. We are having a competition for the best video

We mean ‘political’ in the widest possible sense.

We’re not looking for fancy film crews to enter this. We believe anybody can pick up a video camera and make a simple video saying what they think, in a pretty interesting way.

I am in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, today, tomorrow and Thursday to speak at e-Society.org.mk – e-Society.mk 2006.

FON is having the last day of its router sale. The current price of 5 euros (17.50 inc VAT and packaging) of the fonera will go up to 30 euros over the weekend. If you get a fonera, you’ll be able to get free wi-fi access at locations all over the world, or get a share of the revenues from your router.

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According to the FON maps, there are active hotspots at the railway station in Wexford and at the Wexford Harbour Boat Club. That’s pretty neat.

Pjotographs of Kevin’s live cooking experience at the Dublin Fringe Festival. Kevin Thornton is a leading chef, with a restaurant on St. Stephen’s Green. I wasn’t there myself, but it sounds like it was quite something. Kevin is starting to blog, hopefully he will write more about the Fringe show (and will bring it to more venues).