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Where's Alistair?

Look here for more pictures from the first Cabinet meeting since the reshuffle

Maybe he was asked to take the pictures?

Update 1154am 09/06/2009

The BBC have the video footage, still no Alistair:

Honest Food Labelling

I love this video! Great bit of PR, my only gripe is it seems to only be easy to embed it, where's the url?

Ballad of a Geek

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"Link Love"An original ballad by HubSpot's Rebecca Corliss

I knew that our feelings were true
That time I got that Tweet from you
You Dugg my post from yesterday
You said it in a special way

I blogged about the way I felt
You commented—It made me melt
I hoped you'd blog about us too
I watched the trackbacks, would there be one from you?

Give me the link love
Boy, where's the link love?
Hey, show me the link love
Your perfect website grade goes straight to my heart

My iPhone beeped. Had a Google alert
You linked to me. You're such a flirt
I checked the link grade. Can it be?
You'd given SEO credit to me

I wrote about our romance news
My blog now had a thousand views
Tweeted the link so I could brag
Now Twitter knew and they made a hashtag

Give me the link love
Boy, where's the link love?
Hey, show me the link love
Your perfect website grade goes straight to my heart

My 301 directed me
To be with you so permanently
Now our domains as one unite
Our love gives us a ranking website

Your inbound links are strong and true
The anchor text is "I love you"
The keywords that we optimize
Causes our blog rank and our passion to rise

Give me link love
Boy, where's the link love?
Show me the link love
Your perfect website grade goes straight to my heart
Link Love audio file (mp3)

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Link Love audio file (mp3)The song, audio tracks and video in this post are all licensed under Creative Commons, Share Alike and are Podsafe. So take it and re-mix it, and share it! Link Love by Rebecca Corliss of HubSpot is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Credits: Rebecca Corliss (@repcor): Jilted link lover, song composition, lyrics, vocals and video editingRick Burnes (@rickburnes): Grumpy manDavid Fisher (@tibbon): Accompaniment and music recordingDan Zarrella (@danzarrella): linklove.hubspot.comEllie Mirman (@ellieeille): Cinematographer and camerawoman Heart-holders:Michelle Jones, Prashant Kaw (@PrashantKaw), Chris Alexis, Mike Volpe (@mvolpe), Owen Raccuglia, Katie Greenwood, Mike Kaplan (@mikekaplan1) Chris Johnson, Dan Dunn (@dunster), Kyle James (@kylejames), Yoav Shapira (@yoavshapira), Dan Abdinoor (@abdinoor), Kate Farren

Quote of the Day

"The Élysée have been in contact this morning to assure us that these remarks were not meant as a critique of UK economic policy – which is nice."

A Downing Street Official

Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked a cross-channel diplomatic row after disparaging Gordon Brown's response to the economic crisis on French TV.

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To befriend or not to befriend

I have been watching the clips from the Politics Show which have been posted online with interest. Tim Montgomerie is an excellent performer in front of the camera and provides some welcome tips though I don't really think that's what I'm trying to do here. I don't want to create a mass readership hanging of my every word, what I do want to do is increase my confidence when writing and get myself to put something on the record. Though that might be why I shy away from some topics...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/7847106.stm

Any way, one noticable thing was John Prescott. He was absolutely super (even if I fundamentally disagree with him) in his programme on class before Christmas and these clips show why you can be any age to embrace technology succesfully but it takes openess and confidence. The only problem is, after watching him do his 'thang' on the politics show I feel compelled to add him as a friend. That's not acceptable for a card carrying Tory is it?