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Thoughts from a thoroughly modern machine
ShareShare on Tumblr After I got back from India, my desktop computer went into meltdown. This was Nigel Dunn’s old machine, which I took over after he went to Australia, and it gave me excellent...
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The social web is not divided by race
ShareShare on Tumblr Above: A snapshot of my Tweetdeck: people of different walks of life, avatars where race is barely determinable, and logos which are not racial at all. Does the BBC expect us to...
View ArticleThis is not your Granddad’s Myspace
ShareShare on Tumblr The new Myspace from Myspace on Vimeo Justin Timberlake may have played Sean Parker in The Social Network, but he’s had a real-life social networking role to play as an investor as...
View ArticleWorse reality shows
ShareShare on Tumblr 2Tapu on Twitter hashtagged #worserealityshows tonight, with Who Wants to Marry a Mutineer? as her suggestion. The hashtag, which went viral tonight, inspired everything from The...
View ArticleThis government’s comedy of errors lately—and few to capitalize on them
ShareShare on Tumblr Polity has gone through the MFAT OIA documents relating to Judith Collins’s visit to China, where she met with Oravida thrice. I’ve been reading them but out of order (the...
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Polarization in US politics: doesn’t that go against their idea of “rugged...
ShareShare on Tumblr There have been a few articles lately on the polarization of politics in the US, where the middle ground—people with views from both Democrat and Republican sides—has been eroded....
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I might not have Facebook, but I do speak Ebonics
ShareShare on Tumblr Forty-nine hours and counting, which makes it the beginning of day three without Facebook. I didn’t really need it yesterday, so there’s something to be said about habits...
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Facebook reaches its limits again: ‘Sorry, something went wrong’
ShareShare on Tumblr Mea culpa: OK, I was wrong. Facebook got things back up in about 20 minutes for some users, who are Tweeting about it. However, as of 8.37 a.m. GMT, I am still seeing Tweeters...
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Conservatives: ‘The Chinese’ are coming! It’s the yellow peril!
ShareShare on Tumblr We hear from certain parties that proclaim that they want one law for all New Zealanders, yet they’ll resort to targeting ethnic minorities anyway. A few weeks ago, Winston Peters...
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Reacting to AJE’s Broken Dreams: are there parallels between GM and Boeing’s...
ShareShare on Tumblr Simpsons fans should be able to connect the above scene with the post below. I’m sure some of you watched the al-Jazeera English documentary this week on the Boeing 787, and how...
View ArticleHow many Facebook bots do you see in an evening? I count over 250
ShareShare on Tumblr Last month, I Tweeted Facebook, asking them to raise the reporting limit for bots. Right now, you can report around 40 bot accounts before a warning box comes up asking you to slow...
View ArticleThe descent of social media as a debating tool
ShareShare on Tumblr Jo Komisarczuk referred, on Twitter, this piece by Rory Cellan-Jones. The title, ‘Twitter and the poisoning of online debate’, gives you a good indication of the topic, and it...
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The trials of being a dual national (or, Kiwis are better at this stuff than...
Share I have just under a year before my British passport expires. In the great tradition of apartheid, it’s a British overseas national passport for those of us born in the colonies, and both in 1996...
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In the Empah, the royal baby is 8 lb 3 oz, thank you
Share The Cambridges with their new daughter in her first public appearance; photograph from the Press Association. I haven’t followed the news of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s new baby much,...
View ArticleHow a car accident makes you grateful
Share The trouble with all the yellow-peril reporting that’s far more prevalent than it should be in Aotearoa is when something happens to you that may get people thinking about a stereotype. Back...
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Google and Facebook should not head “top brands” lists when consumers do not...
Share I’ve always been surprised when I see Google or Facebook appear on any “top brands” lists. It’s branding 101 that a strong brand must have loyalty, awareness, positive associations, perceived...
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Why Stephen Fry left Twitter, and what could be next
Share Stephen Fry wrote a witty blog post (he is the Stephen Fry, after all) on why he left Twitter. I won’t quote the whole thing, as it’s his copyright, but I will excerpt a chunk here: … let us...
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No surprises as Facebook slips to third in Alexa, but tech press misses it
Share Above: Facebook’s latest move: ensuring that notifications for messages go to its own app. If you choose not to install it, tough. (Actually, you can reach your messages if you had bookmarked...
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Social media mean less and less
Above: I must report and block dozens of Instagram accounts a day, not unlike getting over the 200-a-day mark on Facebook in 2014. For the last few days, I made my Twitter private. It was the only...
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The descent of Twitter
Dawn Huczek/Creative Commons 2·0 This Tweet was probably half in jest: Twitter 2009. I like apples.I like pears.That’s cool.Yeah. Twitter 2018. I like apples.So you’re anti pears then.No, I just...
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