My love affair with…
Posted on 14. Mar, 2010 by RK in Culture / Sport
…twitter. Or how a Twitter outage means I can sit here and realise just how sad I am becoming. Yes, I can’t believe it. Twitter is down. They might as well take the whole internetz offline zomg.
Sitting here hitting F5 over and over, I realised I am far too ‘into’ Twitter. Yes, some would even call it an obsession. Need further proof? Last week I officially added a hashtag to my middle name via statutory declaration. I think that says enough.
It also proves that over the course of a year, such a simple medium can dominate ones life, and I know I’m not the only one. Fellow and favoured tweeters such as @torybear, @sscrltt and even @Donal_Blaney have been swiftly enamoured by the trend (Ed: Good pun on trending). Come on Blaney, I’ve seen you hashtagging your little heart out.
Furthermore, at CPAC earlier this year, I made it a point to further my intention to start hashtagging spoken sentences, handwritten statements and words in e-mails and places where they wouldn’t serve as meta-search buttons. The point? Well, it’s three-fold.
Firstly, I’m a nerd. #geekchic
Secondly, I have a remarkably strange sense of humour. #woodyallen
Thirdly, it helps me to summarise a statement in one word. #closure
So these are my reasons for being so obsessed with Twitter as a service. So much so that I now control 8 accounts, although some are redundant and others used just for monitoring. Some excellent tools for my fellow Twitter enthusiasts to check out are things such as TwitterFall or Qwitter.
And remember, kids – follow @keeprightonline for your soundest libertarian rantings.
Your right to read Keep Right Online
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by OHC in International
Don’t worry, this isn’t some housekeeping notice. At least not the bad kind. The good news is that you now have a fundamental human right to be given the Internet so you can access to Keep Right Online. The bad news is that it’s bull (Ed: this ‘right’, not KRO!). (more…)
Guardian FAIL… epically.
Posted on 06. Mar, 2010 by RK in International, United Kingdom, United States
Late last night, lefty conspirators hit that “SEND” button on their Macbooks (Ed: Don’t YOU use a Macbook?) and went to the presses on this deeply embarrassing expose on the Young Britons’ Foundation- Britain’s young free-market training organisation. The problem is, it wasn’t embarrassing for YBF. It was a yet another non-story in the long line of Grauniad pseudo-journalistic bias.
Watching… like hawks
Posted on 28. Nov, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
ConHome has announced its launch of two new project pages: one dedicated to think tanks and one dedicated to ‘Left Watch’. As we like to think of ourselves as a mini-drink think tank, and want everyone to keep right (Ed: we’re so lonely with just YouTube videos of Dan Hannan for company), we’re obviously very excited at this.
Just check out the banner for Left Watch:
No, please don’t check out Polly (Ed: you need help). What’s that on the right? Oh, but a left-turn sign. I wonder where they could have got that idea from…
KeepRightOnline goes global!
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
Well, kind of…
One keen reader writer posted this on Twitter today- the car park sign at the Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi. Doesn’t sound that exciting until you notice the coincidental similarities between it and the old KeepRightOnline banner – font and all!
Ed: Riveting stuff, mate.
ID card fail
Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
At KRO, we feel obliged to apologise for the grievous mistake that may have startled many of our readers half to death. At 16:54 today, probably the most unlikely advert appeared next to our article criticising ID cards:
#adfail
How ID cards will benefit your business?! If that’s how good they’ll be at target identification, I don’t think ID cards are going to do anything to help.
Let us repeat ourselves nice and slowly so there’s no more confusion. Fuck. Right. Off.
Oops, Donal’s at it again!
Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
Following the rumours, as seen here, that KeepRightOnline is in the pay of one Mr. Donal Blaney of YBF fame; it seems the man’s been at it again. This time, the recipient of Donal’s cash was none other than Conservative Future Chairman, Mr. Michael Rock!
The saga continues…
The journey home…
Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by RK in Features, United Kingdom
We’ll keep this short and hope to have various pictures and videos up over the next few days. Just a few quick points to mention:
1. Cameron’s speech was awesome.
The epic delivery of this hearty and passionate libertarian speech will surely strike fear into the hearts of those in the Labour Party who felt that DC was ‘all style and no substance’. The man hit all the right notes. #fact.
2. The Guardian trying to paint #cpc09 as some dark and horrific event is contemptible and despicable behaviour.
But what else did you expect?
3. KeepRightOnline’s bash at PartyForChange on Wednesday night will surely go down in conference legend.
…and we’ll do it again next year!
Major shout outs across the week go to (and apologies if we leave anyone out; the memory is slightly hazy)
Owen ‘Change’ Meredith, Sophie ‘Anti-Cheese Confederation’ Fernandes, Michelle ‘On Message’ Donelan, Danni ‘9am Lecture’ Robinson, Oliver ‘End Taxes’ Cooper, Emma ‘VIP’ Carr, Richard ‘Xbox’ Holloway, Edmund ‘Death Penalty’ Kozak, Steven ‘McDonalds’ Dent, Eric ‘The Chairman’ Pickles, Starbuck ‘I’m blue’ Coleman, Andrew ‘Former YC Chair’ Rosindell, Mark ‘Will argue on anything’ Wallace, Donal ‘Backhander’ Blaney, James ‘Two Wine Bottles’ Cleverly, Neil ‘The Tooth’ Cropper, Robert John ‘Why can’t I go in there?’ Tasker, Lauren ‘Blogger-to-be’ McEvatt, Harry ‘Tony Bear’ Cole, Richard ‘Ralph’ Jackson, The Swedes and many, many more…
KeepRightOnline fans, take notice!
Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
This week (and I make no promises), we hope to undergo a major thematic change to KeepRightOnline. Alongside this, we’ll be starting a new marketing push, with our sister site NoFourth.co.uk and our beloved partners in the blogosphere.
KeepRightOnline has the aspiration to be your first port of call for centre-right commentary- I hope we fulfil this ambition. To this end, KeepRightOnline will be seeking new writers, contributors (artists, video creation experts) and partners. If you’d like to get involved in the ‘Keep Right’ movement, drop us a line…
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?
Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
KeepRightOnline were chuffed this morning to see the great “no left turn” logo that we so often used in the early days of KRO plastered on the front page of Blaney’s Blarney- and marked with the Young Briton’s Foundation logo (as below).
The old KRO Logo
KeepRightOnline are working on a few things ahead of party conference this year, and no doubt you’ll be seeing this image more and more. Is there a KeepRightOnline-YBF collaboration to be discussed? Rumours, go!
