Talk:Openpolitics.ca
yeah, i know it's a wiki, i was data-streaming it a bit. nice versioning system btw.
From the Open Politics dot CA Home Page:
- Top story: Politics must Evolve.
- June 16, 2005 Openpolitics.ca is a new web service that enables the evolution of politics.
- [. . .]
- Open Politics is part of the movement for postmodern politics
This last reference is rather odd, as i used it sarcastically in a post on S/W less than 24hr ago.
Then there is the Open Politics page "Usefullness of Trolling". (Not here, it would be too easy).
Anyway, a quick trip around the edges of the site, and my intuitive analysis is that it is a small group of mid to late 20's Canadians, unhappy with their own version of linear politics, and electoral choices that, as just about everywhere else where democracy reins, always seems to end up with a depressing vote for evil, albeit of the lesser kind. Reality bites, and the site does have potential, for if nothing else, a bit of irony:
- Persons involved with a collaborative creative project,
who postulate the propriety in acts of trolling meant to break-up group thought.
- Persons involved with a collaborative creative project,
This article looks to be a bit of self-promotion. Not only on this page, but the creation of the Politics Must Evolve redirect that I removed also.
And to anyone from Open Politics dot CA who reads this:
Postmodern is an oxymoron, overused, lately consciously abused. This has flogged the term into a pulpy vacuity, even when viewed through the rose-coloured pedantic miasma of spewing learned jargon, that is the haughty veil of neoliteracy worn by the woodenheads of letters. Call it Post-millenial, Anno-Chretien, or many other things; but certainly "Post Modern" is not befitting persons engaged in "Positive Trolling"... (see Robert Fisk - 2005.05.14)
i'll check back with the site in a month or two.
cheers --Hugh Manatee 04:24, 3 Jul 2005 (EDT)
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The 'openpolitics.ca citizen journalist web service is a good source of background articles and inside information on Canadian politics. It was among the first to break confidential leaked testimony regarding the Liberal sponsorship scandal, and the only source in Canada to quote it in any depth.
It invites anonymous whistleblowers especially from within Canadian political parties. A recent coup was the publication of a series of resignation letters from inside the Green Party of Canada, detailing allegations of wrongdoing and/or incompetence by party financiers, spin doctors, and its leader.
The service promotes "open politics", an ideal of transparency and accountability, under the slogan politics must evolve.
