I am Alex White, a progressive campaign strategist, social marketer and policy activist.
Last year I wrote a post about how I’d gone with my blogging and tweeting. Given that I’ve been blogging here since 2008 and elsewhere since 2004, I thought I’d share a few insights as someone who operates a very, very niche blog about union campaigning and politics. Blog This graph shows monthly readership (each [...]
I thought I’d share with my readers some of thoughts about my tweeting and blogging from 2010 – a year that saw considerable growth in readership and followers for me. Blog 2010 was the year of elections, and marked my attempt to blog at least once a week. While I’ve been blogging on and off [...]
The #NoCleanFeed movement is not an organised campaign, but rather a loose connection of disparate groups including ISPs and civil liberties organisations. For a while, I’ve been arguing that the #NoCleanFeed campaign should drop the focus on censorship: I suggest avoiding commenting on the refused classification – most Australians aren’t going to be sympathetic to [...]
The #Nocleanfeed (aka, #OpenInternet) movement won’t succeed in blocking the Australian Government’s filter because its leadership are captured by the dead-end Democrats and fringe libertarians with little political campaigning experience. This capture means that unfortunately the movement is receiving ill-informed political counsel from serial Democrat losers like elitist apparent drug-taker Kathryn Crosby (links to screenshots [...]
The legion of No Clean Feed activists have developed several campaign sites, one of which is The Great Australian Internet Blackout. Their call to action (in addition to writing to the Government and adding a twibbon to your Twitter profile picture) is to blackout (darken) your website on Australia Day. Their reasons for doing this [...]