Posts by Sofie Bribiesca
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Stephen Judd,
The pileon is a nuanced phenomenon that in some cases is a legit protest campaign and in others a nasty exercise in ostracism and shame.
And? who polices those cases? New world Order? The Human Race has always had an ugly side. We have just found more ways to exercise that freedom. Visually ,more ways to experience it , mentally, more ways to engage with it, but always has had an ugly side.
I do believe though ,if and because it's so, we have computers in Schools, like swimming ,if you learn to swim safely, you wont drown. -
Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to giovanni tiso,
John Pagani writes on behalf of the oil and gas industry on Twitter for money but makes no disclosure of it?
I don't tweet so whaddaIknow .This is only my opinion but yes I have one. I imagine Gio, that, that sounds like pretty basic information. It wouldnt bother me to read those words and i wouldn't find it out of order.
Another thing about online communication (especially Twitter
From the words above I suspect that what may start out as one's opinion can quickly become many person's protest. In the (I like to think) good ol' days, people went out to March. Now ,it would seem that people are marching with their fingers and as someone further up said become "keyboard warriors." The mere fact that no matter what one's view is , they will be heard somewhere, is a sense of empowerment so no matter who you are, beit big, small, significant, or not, twitter seems to have created people equal. It's ones opinion of someone else's opinion that is extremely difficult to monitor. The "dont be a dick" rule is defunct when there are dipsticks on the planet. These people haven't been banned from the world for their own stupid opinions which to them isn't stupid. They just think nothing like you. Ignorant even. I don't twitter because I really thought it would get like it is. Just as I don't read Whaleblog, Kiwiblog and even certain journos at Granny. I will say I don't cast all Journos in the same vein or all bloggers in the same vein, I choose who I want to deal with including commentors. If I didn't do that, I wouldn't get anything else done or at least wouldn't give the same attention to what I am doing, so ....rules for Twitter, there are no rules for twitter, just communicate with those you want to and if you don't like something. walk away from the keyboard. It's not so hard. Try it sometime. Take a break ,go on ,you deserve it, you know you can :)
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to Russell Brown,
The vessel in the pic of me looking at the water is the Spirit of New Zealand and contains the daughter of one Emma Hart. Here’s a better shot.
Cool photos. I hear that trip is memorable. Our good friend Michael may have been the Skipper. He does that shared job. The Vessel is stunning (to say the least of the trip.)
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to JacksonP,
Can’t beat the old tyre swing as the sun goes down.
Just had a chance to notice these photos. That's one brilliant shot JP. likeitalot
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Hard News: The Uses of Dotcom, in reply to Russell Brown,
WTF is Armstrong on about?
Ha! John Armstrong is blinded by John Key's aura?
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Hard News: The Uses of Dotcom, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Key has the art of dismissing or changing the question mastered, but doing so would not help Cunliffe. “Why won’t you answer my question David? Why?
”George: How about this
"I can't tell you anything about that,
But what I can tell you is this".....
But what I can tell you is this......
But what I can tell you is this...(insert any words that dont make sense)
count how many times Key uses that get out of jail card. -
Speaker: Need, in reply to Jackie Clark,
okey dokey, I know the feeling.
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Hi Jackie.What about hitting up 2 degs. They have cheap ones and often free ones. Surely you could get them on board.
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We all know the only world series is the FA Cup.
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I just wish it was like the bad ol' days when we didn't give a shit who was in the country and understood if a well known random was in the country, they were here because of just that. I mean it's nice an' all that Johnny Depp hangs out up North. No one cares up there. So many people spot him and no one bothers him. I believe that is probably something well knowns appreciate. Seeing as people follow Lorde around by things like twitter ,do we not suspect that her following in the media has been created because of such fans. Should the media pack be expected to behave with dignity when her fans scream for her. I dunno. It seems that security of the person now seems inevitable. Next it must be security of her home , family etc etc. Its been like that in the U.S forever. We seem to follow their lead all the time.