Posts by George Darroch
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They may have existed without the Internet, or they may not; but without the Internet it's highly unlikely that I'd even have heard of them in the first place.
I taught a politics and the media class yesterday, and explained to my undergraduates how before the 1990s, we had to print things and distribute physical copies. There were and are advantages to this, as with any technology of production. I think here of my father's photocopier, a machine with he very proudly produced political pamphlets for letterboxing, and how as a child I'd walk the streets with him. But it was also difficult, on cold wet mornings.
I think the major change in my opinion has been the removal of barriers to access in the transmission of information. It was hard for me to explain this to my students, because they simply take it so thoroughly for granted.
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If it needs to be said, one thing that seems blindingly obvious from this discussion and others recently, is that the best of the web is social. Whether it be things which are obviously so, or things that appear on the surface to be technical or arcane, the joy of the web is in creation of things together. New spaces, new ideas, new things. When it all comes together it's wonderful and beautiful.
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Is there a non-slip version? You know, something with grips to hold onto while in the bath? :)
You can download an app for that.
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"For people coming into the city, it says: 'Welcome to the aspirational capital of New Zealand, where you jail people ... and it's great'," he said.
Mr Banks said.
Oh dear.
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an archive which co-ordinates the digitalization of the audio past.... then making that available to the public
would be a marvellous thing- but a copyright nightmare, eh?
Not necessarily, if the Film Archive in Wellington, and other such institutions are anything to go by.
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Having just had my blog blocked by the Thai censors I know how the children feel
Weird. Your blog is hardly a glowing endorsement of the Red Shirts, or any other shirts for that matter, and if anything it resembles a (cautious and caveated) endorsement of Thailand.
Could it be that they're sensitive about foreign nationals after the Australian they've charged with incitement?
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Via various people on teh interwebs, including Giovanni.
Lost, re-enacted by cats in one minute:
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It took two paragraphs before I looked at the byline to see it was written by that other well-known "Ro" - Roger Kerr.
I read a piece on Stuff bylined as Vernon Small, and thought: this is refreshing, I'd better take back at least some of the criticism I've leveled at New Zealand's political journalists. A strong but fair investigation of the budget and the way it had been sold by the Government.
It turned out that there had been a mixup among the sub-editors, and it was in fact the work of David Cunliffe.
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That really is a very good question, and something that fascinates me about the type. From an early age I've always thought about the consequences of being caught. But some people just don't. If you can shed any light on why not then I'd be bloody interested to hear it.
Your sentences weren't long enough for these fictional characters, of course.
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This is coming to resemble more and more the New Zealand that I first experienced in 1997.
I wanted to ask something actually, to everyone and nobody in particular: Around the start of the last decade did it actually seem like there was a lot of hope that NZ would become a fair and just, environmentally friendly, culturally assured place?
I was feeling a little nostalgic the other day, for a time before it seemed like Labour was leading us nowhere and the only alternative was worse. But I'm not sure if that place ever existed outside my head.