Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Phase book...
but LOTS of friends of mine who are far less technically adept than me use it constantly. It clearly fills an important role for people in letting them share thoughts, feelings, news and funny pictures.
It's just digital scrapbooking isn it?
and saves on postage writing to people...(i'm not technically adept and don't use FaceBook)
do they have a cemetery section?
A PastBook if you will
I can see a scenario where "immortal epitaphs/profiles"
could take off - though its size could start getting into
Torchwood's Miracle Day territory...
Zombie servers in the wilderness...
what becomes of the use-by-data...maybe Facebook can recreate people from their online presence
and synaptic choices and processes - in fact how do we know anyone else is out there, really? -
OB Network broadcating...
Has anyone mentioned that Steven Joyce used to co-own Radioworks that was folded into Mediaworks?
I know it came up in relation to the Gummint's "helpful loans" to Mediaworks to pay for their frequencies a while back.
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kaffeeklatsch...
‘late at the museum’
Latté, surely?
Some kind of whirled cup event maybe?
Anyway, the late are usually in a mausoleum...
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Hard News: Who owns the news?, in reply to chris,
Genuine questions
Chris, I agree with Islander's take on it, but tempered with the "think global, act local" mindset, while news can travel at varying sped it can be manipulated as well and often has to be treated as suspect.
plus to your second question: I think there is a large degree of being baffled or swamped by bullshit, we all end up knowing too much we don't need to know, too much complexity, too much detail without corroboration - and it overloads our filters and ability to act decisively. -
Hard News: Who owns the news?, in reply to DCBCauchi,
effem era...
Are they related to this kind of thing at all?
totally, the street sheets thang is just my generic description of that family of broadsides and broadsheets as distinct from pamphlets and flyers...
maybe the German ones are not so much handouts as Hans' doubts...
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Biobbs,
belabouring choices...
You've had 15 years to get used to working with MMP and coalition partners. You are never going to form a majority government again, so why are you determined to behave so suicidally this time?
Maybe they don't know the difference between
co-operation and co-option
Interestingly among the definitions my Mac dictionary has for co-option is : adopt (an idea or policy) for one's own use : example - the green parties have had most of their ideas co-opted by bigger parties. -
idle worship...
Having passively acquired 656 Facebook “friends”
I wouldn’t be totally relaxed about this.You are just 10 off that number...
when they all become Faust Book Fiends...pacts and sphincteral contracts...
If they have, or develop, a more sinister intent than just making money (if that is sinister enough), we’re all screwed. Otherwise, what to do?
No such thing as a free lunch, dine wid him
and de debbil will have his due... -
Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Tack scuts...
The Labour electioneering pamphlet that arrived in our letterbox was a picture of a $100 note with the message Labour’s policies will put more money in your pocket. WTF?
They could've just had a shot of a few coins,
with a "vote for change" slogan...
...or better yet, same coins, and "this is what National will have you begging for after they've flogged off your future income sources!" -
Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to merc,
Broken English...
English said he could not recall ‘’the exact sequence’’.
Maybe he is related to Mike Tindall...
England manager Martin Johnson admitted that Tindall's recollection of events with the woman in Queenstown "was inaccurate" and England have also apologised for an incident at the team's hotel in Dunedin
source...or perhaps it was the classic Andrew Card/George Bush scenario - After being told that New Zealand is under attack by the evil rating agencies Mr Key stoically carries on, not wishing to alarm the populace or miss the vital air-time publicity!
it gets my goat... -
Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Nice Blimp Joe - Colonel Brownlee makes a great bloated floater...
...as the lights reminded him of the star that appeared in the firmament at the hour of Bob Jr's birth.
A timely reminder that Bob is from a stable background, were it to happen today, what with the cuts at the University of Canterbury, no wise men would be available, though I'm sure we could rustle up 3 Kings Old Boys to fly down as he lay down with the City Manager and other live and laughing stock (there being virtually no Inns in Chchch these days) and as to the nearest star in the firmament - it took a hell of a hit 3 days ago! Just what was in that Comet!