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links for 2008-04-21

• Five House Republicans Ask Colleagues To Give Up Earmarks - Patrick O’Connor, Politico

  Five House Republicans, representing various segments of the party, asked their GOP colleagues not to submit earmark requests this year.

  (tags: earmarks pork republicans congress)

• Semi-connected: The internet and politics - Economist

  Even the least fogeyish of politicians have been flummoxed by the internet. Tony Blair, champion of all things modern, paid no end of lip service to the potential of new media as prime minister but was comically technophobic himself.

  (tags: web2.0 politics internet technology foreign_policy britain)

• I know how to make the prime minister sit up and listen to us - Martin Ivens, Times Online

  The age of deference is dead. If our masters needed further proof, then the unprecedented collapse of Gordon Brown’s approval ratings has provided it.

  (tags: britain foreign_policy internet government web2.0 technology)