I was listening to Molly Holzschlag talk about ‘Crimes Against Web Standards’ last night. Today, I found a website that contains the following CSS: 
a:link {
color:#666666;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration:blink;
}
Yes, that is our old friend the blink tag, revised for the era of CSS. Only, this time, it’s applied to every single link on the web page.
Take a look. It’s delicious. (Via Dave Cross)
“Only Michael Meacher talks to me. Obsessively.”
I can see why. 
Still, the Rt Hon. Mr. Mitchell seems to think he is the saviour of the blogosphere:
It [blogging] is inherently anti-government and conservative because prejudice is easier to get over than serious explanation. Just like Talk Radio… So the strongest practitioners [of blogging] are Republicans like Drudge or rank Tories like Ian Dale and Guido Fawkes, leaving this as the only voice of sense, semi-socialism, freedom, truth and justice.
Except that blogging is naturally oppositional - in the States, there are lots of big progressive blogs (Daily Kos etc.), and the right wing blogs are often opposed to the current administration (Andrew Sullivan, Hit and Run). Mitchell’s analysis of the political blogosphere really is a bit rubbish. Political bloggers are best when they take the theory of the government and hold it up against reality, and examine the ‘meta-narrative’ of the whole thing.
Still, I’m waffling now. I need to go and look at those hypnotically blinking links again.
