Please contribute your knowledge to L.A.M.P.!
October 24th 2008 00:56
L.A.M.P. stands for the Light A Match Party, in which I humbly request your participation.
The Party's name derives from the answers to the following question:
When do we light a match?
-To shed light in the darkness.
-To set something on fire.
-When there's a strong stench of shit in the air.
LAMP, which shall be open to all bloggers internationally, is an attempt to compare notes on what our newspapers and TV stations are telling us--and see if the news stories match up from country to country.
Bloggers post a reliable and verifiable news item about any situation that affects all of us worldwide; each commentor on that post in turn posts one related news item from their own country.
The posts and comments may be as short as a headline, i.e. " Monaco declares war on Tasmania" Source: N.Y. Times, 27 Dec. 2008
-Then a blogger from Brisbane adds this bit from his/her local paper: "Tasmania attempts coup d'etat on Monaco" Source: Brisbane Mirror, 20 Dec. 2008
And so on.
I think it would be interesting to hear different versions from different sources on the same subject--and maybe shed a little light on real world news instead of the steaming piles of --er--info being shoveled out by big corporate TV entities like CNN and Reuters.
To start a thread, go to the L.A.M.P. blog, see if your news item fits under any other post titles; if it does, submit a comment with your news on that post.
If none of the post titles fit your news, simply create a new post with your news item and title it accordingly, i.e. "War in Middle East".
Anyone may post. If you have blogger friends in other countries, please pass this on to them as well.
This will be a worldwide experiment; the more participants, the better informed we'll all be.
*All news items must be from a verifiable, named source. No op-ed pieces please; just the facts.
The Party's name derives from the answers to the following question:
When do we light a match?
-To shed light in the darkness.
-To set something on fire.
-When there's a strong stench of shit in the air.
Diogenes, symbol of L.A.M.P.
LAMP, which shall be open to all bloggers internationally, is an attempt to compare notes on what our newspapers and TV stations are telling us--and see if the news stories match up from country to country.
Bloggers post a reliable and verifiable news item about any situation that affects all of us worldwide; each commentor on that post in turn posts one related news item from their own country.
The posts and comments may be as short as a headline, i.e. " Monaco declares war on Tasmania" Source: N.Y. Times, 27 Dec. 2008
-Then a blogger from Brisbane adds this bit from his/her local paper: "Tasmania attempts coup d'etat on Monaco" Source: Brisbane Mirror, 20 Dec. 2008
And so on.
I think it would be interesting to hear different versions from different sources on the same subject--and maybe shed a little light on real world news instead of the steaming piles of --er--info being shoveled out by big corporate TV entities like CNN and Reuters.
To start a thread, go to the L.A.M.P. blog, see if your news item fits under any other post titles; if it does, submit a comment with your news on that post.
If none of the post titles fit your news, simply create a new post with your news item and title it accordingly, i.e. "War in Middle East".
Anyone may post. If you have blogger friends in other countries, please pass this on to them as well.
This will be a worldwide experiment; the more participants, the better informed we'll all be.
*All news items must be from a verifiable, named source. No op-ed pieces please; just the facts.
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