Comments on: The President Of Russia Is A Blogger: But Is He The Only National Leader Out There Who Blogs?

By: Luiz

Luiz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:37:11 +0000

Well, there is a lot of things indicating that it IS a spoof site. The fact that it is hosted at Blogspot.com would suffice for me. But you can also take the content of the site as another indication, for instance:

“With Ken, I am also endorsing two new major public arts projects which will pour hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer’s money into a two new statues; one of Chairman Mao in Hyde Park (…) and another of a 700 foot tall lesbian, cast in solid bronze and situated in Trafalgar square, illuminated at night and visible all across London to remind us of the privileges of living in a modern society.”

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By: yuliya_talmazan

yuliya_talmazan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:23:52 +0000

Thanks, Luiz. Although there is hardly anything indicating that Gordon Brown’s blog is a spoof, I will make a note in the post.

By: Luiz

Luiz — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:47:24 +0000

Be aware that the Gordon Brown blog is in fact a spoof site! I don’t remember if I told you that before, but anyways I think you should remove it from the list.

I will quote here an interesting comment I found on the web: “(…) making the most of new technology also involves defensive techniques to make sure that YOUR message gets across rather than someone else’s. (…)” for instance “(…) making sure that Gordon has a clearly marked official blog which is easily found (because if it does exist I can’t find it) and which performs well in the search engines.”

By: Cyn

Cyn — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:14:40 +0000

Cool! I wouldn’t have seen that coming from the President of Russia, either. I don’t know if you have to be really flexible to be a blogger (though it’s no doubt an asset), but I was thinking more you’d have to be flexible to see it as a viable way for a president to communicate, as opposed to, as he said, “not a President’s thing”. This is a great post though; definitely checking out some of those links!

(p.s. I think Obama does have a Twitter account, though it’s probably at least partially run by aides. It’s http://twitter.com/barackobama)