Posts by 81stcolumn
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It would be interesting to see how greater Europe sees this issue given their clear dependence on gas and pipework from the east.
That there is sucspicion of Israel and USA arming Georgia reeks of - lets fight a war in somone leses back yard.
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Oh and I don't know aboout the blue tarpaulin idea but how about a canopy made of blue balloons......
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Its sounds as though Beijing will not be quite the place others have come to know, but nonetheless quite educating. Perhaps some will finally grasp quite the size of the once sleeping giant. F**k ! 40 million flowers the people to plant, grow and place them. I remeber a few years ago whole streets changing in the course of a week I cannot imagine what it is like now.
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Rocket Scientists perhaps desreve recognition for being smart enough to design rockets and kid someone else into operating them.
I mean look at the saturn space programme - large incendiary device pointed at sky with a tin can on top. The smart soul was definitely the one who didn't try and pilot it herself.
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Dude the words always matter.
Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing, teaching no-talking.
The ten thousand things rise and fall without cease,
Creating, yet not.
Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten.
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My wife has instructed me to ask for the type of wool and the number of the pattern......
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Sorry to be a party pooper but if you are after ethical, competitive gymnastics ain't it...think of the kids.
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Ohrwurm alert.
Absolutely an album by Madness. Contains a track Embarrassment which includes the lyrical gem “__I’m feeling twice as oldah, I’m feeling twice as oldah__”. Coincidentally released on the Stiff label. (Cue Saxaphone solo).
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I'm totally all over this thread.
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This is the point where I am likely to get into trouble....
The existing SPARC websites are difficult to defend and there are some on the inside willing to admit this. However from my POV the problem in some part lays with a lack of expertise on the inside. Contracts are tendered for via GETS.
i) Quite frequently you only have two weeks to put together a proposal - this in itself is problematic. The peole whom you would want to do this don't usually have the resources to operate within this sort of timeline.
ii) The specifications sometimes are poorly written in a way that reflects a clear lack of knowledge with respect to any new media amongst other issues. From my own experience specifications have been often been impossible to meet or ridiculously vague. Hence a proposal quite often involves a degree of client education and a fair bit of guesswork.
iii) I am of the impression that there is a whole industry based entirely around the GETS tendering scheme most of it based in Wellington. Not all of these folks are best of breed it would appear (This is however only my impression). Breaking out of this may require time that those at SPARC rarely possess, as it would probably involve assemmbling teams/consortia and managing them appropriately.IMHO they need time and better institutional knowledge in this regard. They also might be guilty of mis-managing some of the resources they have.
Not to diss the folks at clicksuite too much but why make the most prominent feature signing up ? I want to play.......... The site seems to be based around a mixture of social networking ideas and activities information. The kind of modelling that would support behaviour change just isn't there. No surprises here, because clicksuite's core business is about making people look good, which is not quite the same as changing behaviour. I might add that the Flash is very pretty and loads well on my browser.
There are people at SPARC who know the differences between marketing and behaviour change, but I don't believe from what I have seen that they are either consulted or listened to during the implementation of these projects. I also suspect that SPARC lacks the resources to appropriately interrogate the evidence base behind some of these interventions.