Posts by giovanni tiso
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Also, I doubt anyone reads much past page 3 of the commentaries, so I doubt anyone reads this!
Lol
No, I think Uroskin is spot on there: the copyright thread was 110 pages of writing but really only 3 pages of reading tops.
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What I have a problem for the most part is the geek's sense of entitlement. Shift PAS to wordpress, make the posts shorter and monothematic, publish the whole RSS feed, move the domain to com or nz and I might be persuaded to read what you guys write. To which I'd add a personal gripe: would it kill the Public Address bloggers to come and do my laundry every once in a while?
I have a very modest blog, but it's mine and I'm occasionally proud of it and I don't demand to nobody that they come and read it and I don't publish the whole RSS feed because I'm quite particular about the formatting and the pictures. Can't be bothered to click through? Don't. Look down on the fact that it's hosted by blogger? Read something else.
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In keeping with National Poetry Day: There's a reason why The Illiad, Dante's Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost are very long, and 'There once was a girl from Nantucket' is... not.
Let's not get carried away there big guy. Best single poem in the Italian language, Carducci's M'illumino d'immenso. It's out of copyright, so I'm going to reprint here in its entirety:
M'illumino d'immenso.
You could fit a whole tweet about what you had for lunch on top of that one.
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Yes, I'm with Craig on that one, it should have its own spot on the sidebar for those of us who only ever visit System.
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I wrote elsewhere that Facebook is Twitter for plonkers, and I stand by that. Being a plonker myself, I appreciate the pace of Facebook very much. I joined for the most ridiculous reason thinking I'd never actually use it but imn fact I use it a lot.
Twitter is something else, though. I don't feel a need to use it myself but it really is quite mesmerising, and utterly fascinating from a mass sociological standpoint. It's like listening in on the world's conversation sometimes - with all the caveats about how slanted the actual user population is.
I'll echo everybody else on the comment that the complaint about PAS articles being articles is just silly. It's got the same bias as the stupid Tumeke ranking, which is based on frequency of posts and number of comments. Number of returning readers per week and time spent on site would be much more meaningful metrics for the kind of work that the PA bloggers do.
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It's one of the new rules and it's been around since at least 1744. You've got to love cricket.
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I couldn't give a toss about the Bain verdict but this is such a relief. Caught myself checking twitter...
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a regular commenter on this site spends a couple of hours and four comments on a Sunday lunchtime spewing out National Front/BNP-type drivel.
Come on now, it was more Richard Prebble than Kyle Chapman.
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Morgan: you do get that Emma is the daughter in this story? Not the mother. Right?
And there goes the diagram.
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I've had the disconcerting experience, on more than one occasion, of being asked to concur that, while I may be an immigrant, I'm not an immigrant in the same sense of somebody from Asia, and that we should let in a lot more of me and a lot fewer of them. If nothing else (and obviously there's a lot else) the idea that it should be more desirable and advantegous for New Zealand to establish connections with Italy as opposed to, say, China or India, seems laughable.