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Penny Red
Personal blog · pennyred.blogspot.compoliticswriting
Penny Red's personal blog at pennyred.blogspot.com covers politics and writing. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Penny Red: Panic on the streets of London”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Penny Red's posts on the August 2011 London riots, including the role of BlackBerry Messenger and a spike in baseball bat sales on Amazon.co.uk. One commenter called a post insightful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Every human heart is a revolutionary cell.
Most-linked posts?
- Penny Red: Panic on the streets of London2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-09
- Panic on the streets of London2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-09
What Hacker News says?
I found this post from last night insightful: http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-lon...
Comment linking /2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html
on “5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk”Submitted Panic on the streets of London as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe rioters aren't really organized, and it's hard to claim that many of the looters have BBM. I don't doubt there are some people inciting things, but what would their aganda be? violent anarchy doesn't seem to be in anyone's best interests. http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-lon...
Comment linking /2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html?spref=fb
on “BlackBerry's Blackout”Submitted Penny Red: Panic on the streets of London as a story · 1 points
HN discussion