Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Media3: Watching the Fourth Estate, in reply to Stephen R,
One can't possibly comment, etc. :)
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Greens complain to Ombudsman about conduct of Henry leak inquiry.
Dr Norman said the issue was "very serious".
“The parliamentary server belongs to Parliament not the Executive. MPs control whether their email logs are released from the parliamentary server, not the Prime Minister’s office."
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Hard News: Media3: Watching the Fourth Estate, in reply to Stephen R,
I wonder what we did that makes us more "ally" than the Germans?
Echelon
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I doubt there is any legal basis for action (probably fine-print aplenty in the issuing agreement for parliamentary swipe cards), but I agree with David Farrar that the constitutional implications are dodgy.
I think this was the wrong decision by The Parliamentary Service.
Actual employees of a parliamentary agency have no expectation of privacy in their swipe card use. But MPs and journalists are not employees. They are part of the democratic process, and their swipe card data should not be released externally, unless it is under warrant or judicial demand.
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Interesting NY Mag interview includes this:
I was surprised how few photos of you are out there. I figured, as 16-year-old, you’d have years of selfies online.
Ha-ha. I’m quite selective about imagery. I like that cleanliness. They Google you and they see the one photo of you. Only now can I do that. I’m not sure that will last much longer. At first, there were no photographs. It was something I cultivated, as I started to grow. But I could feel people getting aggressive, like, show yourself already. I mean, I understand. I write pop music. People aren’t used to not being able to put a face or a body to it. So I was like, all right. I didn’t want to turn it into thing. -
Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I can see there might be problems with edges and borders
and safety.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Nora Leggs,
pigging out
protecting the supply :)
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About the on-camera-all-the-time aspect, I found it interesting to compare the original clip for Royals (by the same director as Tennis Court):
with its re-cut for the US market:
and note that Ella deberately chose to keep herself out of early publicity around her music.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Full-on First Person, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I am not sure what the whole fuss about Lorde is all about
Knock me down with a feather.
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
do you trust NZ Post?