Posts Tagged ‘online life’
Of bloggers, dogs and fleas. The Ports of Auckland’s ‘ethical and legal breaches’
Now that the Ports of Auckland has admitted it, I haven’t got much to add to my earlier ‘Lie down with dogs get up with fleas’ comment in ‘Garner: “@whaleoil lies again.” Surprise me‘ about the Ports company leaking their personnel records to a sympathetic (at best case) blogger. Today’s Yesterday’s NZ Herald editorial: Port’s [...]
The business of selling words
So, does all-encompassing MEDIA find an audience, or does the audience find what they ‘re interested in knowing more about? What do you think? From a new article ‘How to Blog’ by Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing with some good stuff to say about writing, including the ‘so yesterday’ thought that maverick bloggers were always [...]
The web: almighty humbler of power, or useful tool?
Worth a read: this brief article by Dan Zak at The Washington Post Woodward and Bernstein: Could the Web generation uncover a Watergate-type scandal? discussing how a ubiquitous internet has so seized the world-view of even bright people that they think journalistic ‘sleuthing’ can be done online and that no corrupt power can but kneel [...]
Loyalty, engagement and criticism
Andrew Sullivan is a writer I respect. And that’s for a lot of reasons, whether I agree with everything he says or not. Elements of his ‘The Daily Dish‘ blog have been widely copied by the less imaginative* (Mental Health Break, Face of the Day, Quote of the Day, Tweet of the Week, blog ‘awards’) [...]
So, who is Simon Lusk?
Scratch this one down to idle curiosity: I’m seeing Simon Lusk‘s name bandied about in Parliament, in the media and on the interwebs. He’s a fairly low-key chap, apparently, who works as some sort of campaign manager/political careers advisor/ninja for various ‘players’ (or wannabe players) on the right of politics in New Zealand. A blogger [...]
Inside joke: Pete says creepy things
From the Business Herald this morning, good ol’ Scott Adams. [chuckle] Yeah, it’s a private joke. But funny at a number of levels. – P
Hidden liability in a dotcom domain name
I did not know this: … having a .com domain name for [your] website is sufficient for [you] to be subject to US jurisdiction – which allows for nasty stuff like the US government seizing [your] website or extradition to USA to stand trial over there based on allegations alone. The bottom line: If you [...]
