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What NOT to do with your ‘charisma’
Business Insider reports on the downfall of a charismatic figure who travelled the world … Hmm, that reminds me of …? Oops. Three to nine years prison. (Oh — and an internet ‘reputation‘ — beyond the reality TV show.) – P
Richard Griffin: charisma and connections
Congratulations to my old boss ‘Silver fox’ Richard Griffin on his appointment as chair of Radio NZ’s board. A bunch of critical people are acting as if they can already read his mind. We’ll see. And then there’s this from John Drinnan’s piece: Griffin is well known in political and media circles with close friends including […]
A voice in the wilderness? Or reclaiming the Grey Power mantle?
‘Peters launches his comeback with punchlines’ — Dominion Post 16 April 2011 Read Kay Blundell’s article and tell me one other contemporary Kiwi politician who would talked about this way. This man has come back from the dead before. (Just sayin’.) Don’t underestimate his political instincts and populism. How much traction he gets in the media […]
Copyright moves
Here in New Zealand, our Parliament has just passed an amendment to our copyright laws which sets up a system of new fines and warnings to illegal file-sharers which, if they repeatedly ignore them, can see them disconnected from the internet (Quelle horreur!). People who breach copyright through illegal file-sharing could be fined up to […]
A development in Singapore for Shaun Stenning Twalk refund seekers
Spotted this refund development on Facebook today … … that seems like a reasonable offer from the promoter to me. I would assume they split the ‘proceeds’? Success Resources were also promoting the Stenning performing troupe in Malaysia, I believe. Any word from there? Thoughts?
Yeah, I thought so all along … waste of space
The email disclaimer emperor has no clothes, according to this article from The Economist … I was never impressed with plonkers like Shaun Stenning fatuously filling up their email disclaimers (example here) with nonsense — it looked like a bush-lawyer’s attempt to intimidate the gullible. As for this mush … The information presented in this […]
That was ‘not intended to be a factual statement’
Spin doctors for this nincompoop junior senator from Arizona Jon Kyl afterwards excused his blatantly false statement (Abortions are ‘90%’ of what Planned Parenthood does — actually 3%) on the Senate floor with a line: ‘That was not intended to be a factual statement’. Oh boy. Nutty. Which, of course, rightly, is like candy to […]
Is it worth dishonestly defending a reputation? No.
‘Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.’ – Oscar Wilde . Reputations — good and bad — are a topic we discuss here at thePaepae.com from time to time. I’m interested in hearing what you think about it (…if anything). Watching the chickens coming home to roost on some of the […]
Oh Craig, where are you when I need you?
Wow! Ralph Loura, the CIO of Clorox recently revealed the uptake when employees were given their choice of (smart)phone. Loura so far has replaced 6,000 desktop and tower computers with lightweight HP laptops, and got rid of company-issued Blackberries while letting workers choose between an iPhone or Android or Window Phone 7-powered smartphone. The company […]
I *DO* appreciate a bit of personality
Here’s the NZ Listener’s 404 error page, which I struck this afternoon — quirky. I like it. More examples of quirkiness like this in the ‘Quirkiness’ album at thePaepae’s Facebook page…
Big plans
The twisted tale of ‘Wellington sex trade entrepreneurs Michael and John Chow’ who want to locate a brothel across the road from Auckland’s landmark Sky Tower (!!) takes another turn. Developers Michael and John Chow are planning to build a 10-storey super-brothel on the prime inner-city site once occupied by the historic Palace Hotel. The […]
Great headline: Do Narcissists Know They Are Narcissists?
{snort!} Of course they do! Read all about it from Scott Barry Kaufman at Huffington Post. Quite funny.
Reliable sources. And not-so-reliable
After my comments this week about the need usefulness for ‘new media’ operators to have or develop a ‘traditional’ media sensibility, I pulled out my copy of Salisbury’s Without Fear or Favor and reacquainted myself with this great book about the NY Times. It’s like everything: Where you put your focus is where you produce […]
