Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,
Look where talking about coffee got me
It's not *what* we're talking, it's *how* we're talking #easeup
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to giovanni tiso,
True. Little logic on show
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Hard News: Hip in the Square, in reply to Melanie,
the Crazy Frog CD on repeat
brick-worthy, agreed
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Surely they ought to EMPLOY competent and friendly adults.
Much like our essential fire and ambulance services still rely on volunteers, and ad agencies and hair salons are propped up by wage-slave interns.
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Frank Rich supports Gladwell's argument (swallows the line that small uptake means little influence) and considers how little Americans see of the region on their TV screens.
The live feed from Egypt is riveting. We can’t get enough of revolution video — even if, some nights, Middle West blizzards take precedence over Middle East battles on the networks’ evening news. But more often than not we have little or no context for what we’re watching. That’s the legacy of years of self-censored, superficial, provincial and at times Islamophobic coverage of the Arab world in a large swath of American news media.
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This provocative debate isn’t even being acknowledged in most American coverage of the Internet’s role in the current uprisings. The talking-head invocations of Twitter and Facebook instead take the form of implicit, simplistic Western chauvinism. How fabulous that two great American digital innovations can rescue the downtrodden, unwashed masses.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to giovanni tiso,
What I really don't get are volunteers who work in airports.
the glamour, innit
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I'm going to choose to celebrate the fact that you found the Internet.
Epic slapdown
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Hard News: Hip in the Square, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
Much like Council was not particularly responsible for development of building standards that lead to leaky homes that became Council's problem
I'm very unimpressed how Clark's government restructured the liable central entities out of existence. Along with the developers carefully closing down their project-specific companies right away and many of the builders going bust, Council ends up being last man standing for a problem that could not have happened without a 1990s Nat government relaxing the rules for the sake of private profit and 'small government' ideology.
Clearly unfair, but no one seems to have done a good enough job connecting the dots for ratepayers or voters since.
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,
Feel free to weigh in on the other threads, Stephen. Russell might even be open to a guest post about cinematic music or some other interest.
And I've just been reminded who Nathan Field is (been a while) - thanks Danielle. #asyouwere
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,
Nathan Field
Eh?