The DomPost yesterday: Front page, the entirety of the above-the-fold: Serepisos sells spare Ferrari. Guy owes the council money while on telly as the Donald on The Apprentice NZ. Is he selling the Ferrari for money to pay the council? TUNE IN NEXT WEEK! Bottom of page 2, entire story smaller than the photo of [...]
Tagged activism, mediawatch, miningSounds like the people behind Wikileaks are under some pressure. Since this is unlikely to turn up in your newspapers, I post it here to spread awareness. Wikileaks has a mission of bringing hidden information to light, when it’s in the public interest. Wikipedia outlines their greatest hits, including Gauntanamo Bay procedure documents, scientology secrets, [...]
Tagged wikileaksSpeaking of the political rhetoric and its disconnect from understanding… Author Nicky Hager accuses the prime minister of being “cranky” and of coming up with “wacky” conspiracy theories. Hmm. – Liam Hehir, Palmerston North Backstory: investigating journo Nicky Hager came into possession of a lot of internal emails from the National Party, and used them [...]
Tagged dompost, john key, nicky hagerJust back from a protest outside Parliament to protect Radio NZ, our public broadcaster. I figure about 150-200 people there, which isn’t bad for a protest pulled out of nothing on Facebook by a guy in Hamilton. Here’s the Facebook group, with nearly 15K members as I type. Here’s the campaign page, Hands off our [...]
Here’s something that amazed me recently. Customers at OneBookShelf donated over $175,000 (U.S.) to Doctors Without Borders for Haiti. Who are these customers? People who enjoy role-playing games, not the biggest demographic. In fact, it’s a smaller slice than that – these are the people so enthusiastic they actually spend money on RPGs. And a [...]
Those systems that don’t produce the outcomes we desire? We can change them, right? The theory is easy. There’re inputs and outputs. We say we want more of this than that, and we set it to accept certain types of inputs, and tweak the desired output level, and voila. The reality is complicated. Systems are [...]
In today’s DomPost, an article by Paul Easton about John Key’s decision to go to Copenhagen, as blogged extensively here last week. Boxout section headed “Tackling The Environment”, in its entirety: Lucy Lawless, actress: “There is no planet B. Let’s go about the business of tackling climate change. Our Government needs to sign on to [...]
Yeah, I know, I’m about to rant about advertising again. Sorry. The new Mastercard Moments “Pebble” campaign bothers me more than any other ad in recent memory. I saw it first as a print spot (see it here), then discovered it had a TV incarnation as well. The print ad shows a lush landscape, with [...]
So, a while back I received issue 2 of Filament in the post. I’ve been dipping in and out of it since, and finally feel I can write usefully about it. Here’s the thing: it’s really pretty amazing. Filament, subtitled the thinking woman’s crumpet, is an adult magazine aimed at women, with a mix of [...]
Oh, I do like this. Spin Profiles is an “encyclopedia of people, issues, and groups shaping the public agenda that is being written collaboratively”. It’s a wiki and anyone can add info to it – there are editors exercising some control. Info is divided into portals e.g. “Nuclear Spin“. Best bit, and presumably the point [...]