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More blog excellence a la Aslam from The Daily Ablution.

One thing that occurred to me last night though.

In the US, the blogosphere claimed the scalps of a Senate Majority Leader, CNN’s head of news, and CBS’s top anchor Dan Rather. I hope it is not rude to see the funny side in the fact that the British blogosphere’s first scalp is that of a trainee journalist with the Guardian!

I find myself thinking of my country and my industry – and what I see confuses and confounds me. This is a tiny little country that remains a world power, one of the few trillion dollar economies in the world. It has 50% take-up of broadband, some huge telecommunications companies and thousands of people working on and around the internet. But still our industry seems dominated by a few moribund and clumsy giants leading a culture that’s inarticulate, unadventurous and profoundly constrained. There’s something very wrong here.

Some interesting thoughts from Tom Coates at Plasticbag.org about why Brits aren’t doing better.

I sometimes wonder a similar thing myself. How have I managed to start a freelance career in the United States from scratch? And why do I think it would have been so much harder in the UK despite the advantage that I have so many contacts there? Why is America full of rags to riches stories? And why do so many people in Britain still sneer at success?

Super Dooper response from the Daily Ablution to L’Affaire Aslam!

Since 2000 New York City’s Hate Crimes Task Force has investigated nearly 2,000 crimes and determined that 95 per cent of them were motivated by hate.

New York Times, page one Inside teaser, Sunday, July 24.