Comments on: The coalition of the purple http://www.anonymong.org/2010/05/29/the-coalition-of-the-purple/ Blind in one ear and deaf in one eye Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:49:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Woman on a Raft http://www.anonymong.org/2010/05/29/the-coalition-of-the-purple/comment-page-1/#comment-1853 Woman on a Raft Sun, 30 May 2010 10:29:36 +0000 http://www.anonymong.org/?p=987#comment-1853 Had a look at the HTML page source for ToryStories, although the credits are right at the bottom of the page. <!-- begin: footer information --> Copyright © 2009 Tory Stories. Original theme by <a href="http://www.thatagency.com/" rel="nofollow">THAT Agency</a>, adapted by <a href="http://www.twitter.com/tommilleruk" rel="nofollow">Tom Miller</a>. Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org/" rel="nofollow">WordPress</a>. <!-- end: footer information --> That is Tom Miller, the blogger and Labour activist who stood as PPC in Woking. http://elections.surreyherald.co.uk/labour/2010/03/tom-miller---labour-woking.html Miller provided a certain amount of cruel fun as his Citizen Smiff rants and school-boyish face make him a target. The face he can't help, but he does write a great deal of nonsense. Miller is connected with dozens of Labour productions - if he put the kind of effort in to his career as he does to Labour microsites, he'd be rich and dangerous. A quick google search trawls up a netful. Although THAT Agency provided the template for the Tory Stories website, that may be the extent of their connection as it is a freebie from their website. http://www.thatagency.com/solutions/blog-templates.php Tory Stories flannel panel http://www.torystories.com/who-we-are/ Tom Miller is credited as a writer but from the HTML source he's more of an architect. OTOH, THAT Agency are US registered and may have done a deal for Miller on registration and hosting. So, another frilled lizard? A relatively small creature but with the ability to look a lot bigger than it really is. Had a look at the HTML page source for ToryStories, although the credits are right at the bottom of the page.

Copyright © 2009 Tory Stories. Original theme by THAT Agency, adapted by Tom Miller. Powered by WordPress.

That is Tom Miller, the blogger and Labour activist who stood as PPC in Woking.
http://elections.surreyherald.co.uk/labour/2010/03/tom-miller—labour-woking.html

Miller provided a certain amount of cruel fun as his Citizen Smiff rants and school-boyish face make him a target. The face he can’t help, but he does write a great deal of nonsense. Miller is connected with dozens of Labour productions – if he put the kind of effort in to his career as he does to Labour microsites, he’d be rich and dangerous. A quick google search trawls up a netful.

Although THAT Agency provided the template for the Tory Stories website, that may be the extent of their connection as it is a freebie from their website.
http://www.thatagency.com/solutions/blog-templates.php
Tory Stories flannel panel
http://www.torystories.com/who-we-are/
Tom Miller is credited as a writer but from the HTML source he’s more of an architect. OTOH, THAT Agency are US registered and may have done a deal for Miller on registration and hosting.

So, another frilled lizard? A relatively small creature but with the ability to look a lot bigger than it really is.

]]> By: Giolla http://www.anonymong.org/2010/05/29/the-coalition-of-the-purple/comment-page-1/#comment-1852 Giolla Sun, 30 May 2010 00:40:30 +0000 http://www.anonymong.org/?p=987#comment-1852 A quick check doesn't give anything useful for torystories, they're registered via and hosted on a random US hosting company. Given how easy it is to dead end many of these look ups I'm surprised so many worked. I'll have to have a play with silobreaker later, it looks like it could be handy. Think it'll take me a while to work out the right questions to ask it. Mind having done this much digging I'm sort of convinced there's a bunch of links that I'm not seeing, because I'm not asking the right question, but that may just be the tin foil speaking. A quick check doesn’t give anything useful for torystories, they’re registered via and hosted on a random US hosting company. Given how easy it is to dead end many of these look ups I’m surprised so many worked.

I’ll have to have a play with silobreaker later, it looks like it could be handy. Think it’ll take me a while to work out the right questions to ask it.

Mind having done this much digging I’m sort of convinced there’s a bunch of links that I’m not seeing, because I’m not asking the right question, but that may just be the tin foil speaking.

]]> By: Woman on a Raft http://www.anonymong.org/2010/05/29/the-coalition-of-the-purple/comment-page-1/#comment-1851 Woman on a Raft Sun, 30 May 2010 00:09:58 +0000 http://www.anonymong.org/?p=987#comment-1851 Good presentation. There's a search site which can sometime be helfpul - Silobreaker. It includes a little flash relationship mapping graphic which is generated by each search. If you click on the graphic you get an enlargement with clickable details. It makes suggestions which would not have been obvious if you were trying to generate search terms. Searching on Blue State Digital, for example, produces a map which includes Jon Cruddas (of Compass) and references a blog which will shortly be behind the paywall on the Times website: http://timesonline.typepad.com/politics/2009/12/labour-websites-go-vertical-jon-cruddas-and-chuka-umunna-target-tory-councillors.html. The campaigners developed a website called http://www.torystories.com/ (don't know who that is registered to) and the blog entry says: <i>December 27, 2009 Labour websites go vertical: Jon Cruddas and Chuka Umunna target Tory councillors Jon Cruddas and fellow Compass traveller, Streatham Labour candidate Chuka Umunna, today launch Tory Story, highlighting the work of Tory councillors across Britain. Carefully researched - the launch edition highlights schemes in Surrey praised by David Cameron which later faced cuts, for instance - it aims to tell tales on Tory administrations around Britain. That will take hard work (the heavy lifting is done by two students and a Labour candidate) and funding (the press release mentions left-leaning web campaigns company Blue State Digital in passing,<b> "Mr Cruddas used the services of Blue State Digital during the Labour deputy leadership contest of 2006/07"</b>, but does not make clear if they are involved in this venture.)</i> It verifies a link from BSD to Jon Cruddas, nothing forbidden in that, but I can't eastablish a link between torystories.com and BSD, or not from the current mapping. Will keep looking. Good presentation. There’s a search site which can sometime be helfpul – Silobreaker.

It includes a little flash relationship mapping graphic which is generated by each search. If you click on the graphic you get an enlargement with clickable details. It makes suggestions which would not have been obvious if you were trying to generate search terms.

Searching on Blue State Digital, for example, produces a map which includes Jon Cruddas (of Compass) and references a blog which will shortly be behind the paywall on the Times website:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/politics/2009/12/labour-websites-go-vertical-jon-cruddas-and-chuka-umunna-target-tory-councillors.html.

The campaigners developed a website called http://www.torystories.com/ (don’t know who that is registered to) and the blog entry says:
December 27, 2009
Labour websites go vertical: Jon Cruddas and Chuka Umunna target Tory councillors

Jon Cruddas and fellow Compass traveller, Streatham Labour candidate Chuka Umunna, today launch Tory Story, highlighting the work of Tory councillors across Britain. Carefully researched – the launch edition highlights schemes in Surrey praised by David Cameron which later faced cuts, for instance – it aims to tell tales on Tory administrations around Britain. That will take hard work (the heavy lifting is done by two students and a Labour candidate) and funding (the press release mentions left-leaning web campaigns company Blue State Digital in passing, “Mr Cruddas used the services of Blue State Digital during the Labour deputy leadership contest of 2006/07″, but does not make clear if they are involved in this venture.)

It verifies a link from BSD to Jon Cruddas, nothing forbidden in that, but I can’t eastablish a link between torystories.com and BSD, or not from the current mapping.

Will keep looking.

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