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Morgan Nichol

Tue, 29 Sept 2009 19:22:04 +1300

It didn't take terribly much more reading around the site to come to the same conclusion. These people are fucking NUTS. It doesn't mean they aren't correct about that video being legit, but it seems like it might be breaking the habit of a lifetime.

Do these people ever realise,…

Russell Brown

Tue, 29 Sept 2009 14:08:17 +1300

I don't move in these circles, is prison planet a credible source for this sort of information?

It's an extremely unreliable source. Those people are very crazy, which makes my immediate reaction one of doubt.

But they do have another video on the page, and they're claiming confirmation that the…

Morgan Nichol

Tue, 29 Sept 2009 13:38:28 +1300

Another related item, from the Times Online today. A police officer has been suspended and charged with 'assault by beating', for striking a female protestor with his baton. Caught on a camera phone.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6852445.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164

At the same protests, and just a day after Ian Tomlinson died entirely coincidentally to being…

Morgan Nichol

Sun, 27 Sept 2009 00:56:37 +1200

Lots more about the abduction/super-hinky-arrest video here:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/mindless-neo-cons-claim-g20-abduction-video-is-fake.html

I don't move in these circles, is prison planet a credible source for this sort of information? They look highly ideologically motivated, but that might mean they spin, or it might mean they fabricate, or it might mean they're completely deluded lunatics.…

Morgan Nichol

Sun, 27 Sept 2009 00:33:46 +1200

What is this all about?

Jesus, that is some alarming looking shit.

There are a lot of people saying it's fake, I don't know if that's true or not yet.

If it's real, then it's still possible that it isn't what it looks like. What it looks like is basically…

Simon Grigg

Fri, 25 Sept 2009 21:14:04 +1200

The internet penetration there is growing very rapidly, on account of mobile devices

which is even more surprising when one considers both the appalling speeds and ludicrous prices that the self protecting elite, those 1 or 2% that control everything here & who own the networks, extract from users. Nuts. Fancy…

Jake Pollock

Fri, 25 Sept 2009 19:55:47 +1200

The thing is that the very worst shit tends to go down when the big obvious TV cameras aren't there. (Strangely enough.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8CNa_viKg0&feature=player_embedded

What is this all about?

Morgan Nichol

Fri, 25 Sept 2009 18:34:21 +1200

"Young people these days. All tweeting and shit. Never a thought for just occupying something and getting themselves dragged off on national TV. Hashtag that bitch!"
Ahem.

The thing is that the very worst shit tends to go down when the big obvious TV cameras aren't there. (Strangely enough.)

Many…

Morgan Nichol

Fri, 25 Sept 2009 17:46:41 +1200

Just be parsimonious and choosy about who and how many you follow. I definitely prefer to enjoy my contact with a selection of people than sign up for a deluge, and people who tweet every 15 minutes don't get followed.

Absolutely. I only follow about 60, many of them run…

Kyle Matthews

Fri, 25 Sept 2009 10:20:01 +1200

As a friend of mine pointed out, the disorganisation of the protest movement against the Pittsburgh G20 is such that they have five or six different hashtags in use, and key organisers (like, say the legal helpline for protesters) aren't using any.

"Young people these days. All tweeting and shit.…

Jake Pollock

Fri, 25 Sept 2009 00:00:13 +1200

Hmm, well apparently the hardcore protesters when completely dark — no twitter, no cell phones. That seems like a good way to get yourself in trouble you can't get out of.

Kimberley Verburg

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 23:44:16 +1200

Not 100% sold on the way the trends are visualised on TrendsMap. It's hard to tell if "my city" of London is just gabby (probably!) or if the rest of the South East is talking too.

Speaking of the G20, I didn't entirely get Twitter until last April Fool's Day…

Kumara Republic

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 22:58:53 +1200

I've found that using TweetDeck takes out a bit of the hassle, even when I'm not a regular user of the service.

Ben Austin

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 21:43:52 +1200

I used Twitter back in 2007 for a couple of months. It was sort of useful but I didn't find it engaging enough to want to make it a part of my daily activities. Sometimes it is nice to remain a passive consumer of information than a contributor.

Rich of Observationz

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 21:35:18 +1200

who is playing at Big Day Out 2010?

Michael Jackson, Phil Spektor and Depeche Mode.

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 20:31:13 +1200

Just as an aside: any official or semi-official news on who is playing at Big Day Out 2010?
There was an impression abroad that they were making the first announcement this week, but there's been no word.

According to a message from C4, there is an announcement due next Tuesday.

Rich of Observationz

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 20:15:29 +1200

In Auckland, for example, we're all about Fashion Week

Only after Cameron Brewer censored out all the Boobs On Bikes postings...

Jake Pollock

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 19:32:33 +1200

It's interesting that you note the dutiful adding of hashtags to tweets about fashion week. As a friend of mine pointed out, the disorganisation of the protest movement against the Pittsburgh G20 is such that they have five or six different hashtags in use, and key organisers (like, say the…

Russell Brown

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 17:00:05 +1200

Oh, and further to the above post.

28,000 is also the rough number of iPhone owners in New Zealand.

Clearly, a magic number.

Russell Brown

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 16:46:47 +1200

Just as an aside: any official or semi-official news on who is playing at Big Day Out 2010?

No. There was an impression abroad that they were making the first announcement this week, but there's been no word.

Russell Brown

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 16:45:40 +1200

Well, I tried Twitter for about 6 weeks but gave up on quite readily. Too much small talk, when there is already a surfeit of it around. Maybe I was just following the wrong people but then I have never been much of a follower.

Such is the hype about…

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 16:36:33 +1200

Just as an aside: any official or semi-official news on who is playing at Big Day Out 2010?

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 16:27:48 +1200

Well, I tried Twitter for about 6 weeks but gave up on quite readily. Too much small talk, when there is already a surfeit of it around. Maybe I was just following the wrong people but then I have never been much of a follower.

George Darroch

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 16:03:30 +1200

Twitter appears huge in Indonesia, looking at the global mashup there. But a great many of those words are simply common words like 'child' and 'not', so perhaps their algorithim isn't working very well. Still interesting

All the same, it wouldn't surprise me. Indonesia was the fourth largest Facebook user…

uroskin

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 14:31:25 +1200

Old dudes twatting wit? Never the twain shall tweet!

Lyndon Hood

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 13:56:37 +1200

ETS required pre-boobs-on-bikes awareness-raising:

"My, it's getting warm ..."

Carol Stewart

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 12:52:24 +1200

And wishing that people would tweet each other about the Emissions Trading Scheme will not make it so.

I expected more of Keisha Castle-Hughes!
:-)

George Darroch

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 12:46:35 +1200

Very briefly, Twitter has decided that it wants to bring the location function back within its control. It should allow for some interesting work, but again raises the age-old internet question of just how much information you want to put out there.

Joko Anwar is quite a wit. His kept…

Public Address

Thu, 24 Sept 2009 12:46:35 +1200

Discussion from blog post.