Edward Seaga explains….

I couldn’t help but read Mr. Seaga’s column in today’s Jamaica Gleaner entitled “Campaign Strategy and Voting Preference”. To be honest, my love for the JLP died the day they found a way to kick out Mr. Seaga…he was the last sensible person the party ever had. As John Maxwell said in his article in the Observer:

“In attempting to assert his supreme authority, Seaga shrank his own party’s leaders into political pygmies who offered no challenge either to him or to the PNP”

I remember in the 1980s that no Minister of Goverment ever addressed the nation but Mr. Seaga. I can only attribute this to the fact that had the others addressed the nation, it would have been quite embarrasing! Oh well….they kicked the man out of the very party he helped to build.

So Eddie’s article today gave me some insight to how people in Jamaica choose their candidates. He sheds light on the reason why we will never hear parties deal with the REAL issues upfront. As Seaga states:

“..Language has to be tailored to the level of understanding of the people. This means using catchphrases, buzzwords and street language. Automatically, this determines what type of subjects can be addressed. It rules out complex arguments on issues, unless the arguments are down to their simplest common denominators”

This article is really worth reading. Now I understand why it suits both parties to “keep back” the electorate at large so that there is no need to feel as if there is some reason to explain anything too complicated…my view.

 Happy reading at:

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070715/focus/focus1.html

Ramblings about Blogs

Today was a pretty slow day for me online. For once in my life I acually had time to sit down and surf the net like a geek. I don’t usually have the time to do much outside my work, preliminary reading for my research paper and of course, my blog. Let me say that this blogging thing is very new to me and it’s almost like a welcomed outlet for me to express myself without giving a s**t about what people have to say. In other words, you can’t hurt my feelings..lol.

 Anyway, I decided I would take a look at the WordPress “blogs of the day” list, only to realise that people get a lot of attention for talking about absolutely nothing…well nothing that appeals to me that I would instantly join the conversation. Yet…from cake baking to dieting to celebrity gossip to Microsoft chat to all sorts of stuff….gains overnight success on the WWW. I am convinced that people are willing to discuss anything just to preserve their sanity.

 Here are a list of blogs that I am secretly trying to discover how the hell they gained popularity…..most of them do not interest me. However, what I have learned from this is that I may as well read up on stuff that bore me so that I can create popular blogs like these folks. I have no idea what the rave is about them:

Top Blogs include:

 http://webworkerdaily.com/

http://ahotmess.wordpress.com/

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

http://sloone.wordpress.com/

http://stardollpictures.wordpress.com/

http://ricojr.wordpress.com/

http://scrapperdesign.wordpress.com/

http://tennisplanet.wordpress.com/

http://whyfijiscrying.wordpress.com/

http://havetoremember.wordpress.com/

Some Growing Blogs, which I have been a part of twice:)) are as follows:

http://vistarapedme.com/

http://asupremenewyorkthing.com/

http://historichighways.wordpress.com/

http://larrytheopensourceguy.wordpress.com/

http://opedna.wordpress.com/

http://maurits.wordpress.com/

http://ladyoftheloom.wordpress.com/

 http://mollywrites.wordpress.com/

 So now that I have seen what the world is really interested in I have to get into my bag of tricks and see how best I can write for an international crowd. I mean…there are other things happening outside of Jamaica, this region and hemisphere that I have views on….like Global Warming, Sustainable Development, Food Security, Energy Conservation etc……hmmmmmmmmm….enjoy the  links above!