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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Sheila Pulham

Blair and Cameron: spot the difference

A brilliant video montage of Tony Blair and David Cameron is doing the rounds again courtesy of http://www.webcameron.info/, a spoof website apeing the Conservative leader's webcameron new media initiative - which was the lead story in Saturday's Guardian.

The video features a painstaking montage of the conservative leader echoing the prime minister's words, culminating in a section in which both repeatedly utter the word "changes" as David Bowie sings along. The video originated on Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet this summer, and is well worth another viewing.

As Jonathan Robinson of the domain name management company NetNames points out on MediaGuardian.co.uk, Mr Cameron looks to have stumbled at a very early hurdle in his attempt to harness the power of the internet:

One of the first steps of setting up a new website is checking the availability not only of your desired domain name, but also of alternatives including the .com and .co.uk versions.

As Jon Henley points out in today's Guardian Diary, "anyone wanting to make a killing when young Dave's likely rival wakes up to the internet age might do a lot worse than nip out right now and register www.gordonline.org.uk".

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