Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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According to the Daily Telegraph, the Queen just sent her first email!
And John Key sent his first tweet!
They even took a photo to prove that it did happen: http://twitpic.com/46its
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Wow, I just found this in the Wikipedia article about swine flu in the USA (no doubt it will be removed soon):
Swine flu is nothing to worry about the media is over-covering it and making people panic when its not neccesary.
The internet makes diseases so much more entertaining.
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You know, despite my moanings earlier, I am actually looking forward to this week's Media 7. I like tales of the olden days of the intarwebs; the beardy days.
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What I fear is that if it's always men who are called upon to recount the good old days of the internet in New Zealand, then their version of events will start to become the official story.
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Robyn, surely you've asnswered your own question, to be fair. Russell says "They all have their own stories to tell of our early internet". Later internet, far more women's voices.
We shouldn't not hear from women just because there weren't many online back then.
In fact, it's because they were a minority that makes their stories interesting to hear.
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And then -- because it's 20 years ago this month -- I'll be pondering the connection of New Zealand's first internet link to the rest of the world, and what happened next, with David Farrar, Colin Jackson and Nat Torkington. They all have their own stories to tell of our early internet, so that ought to be fun.
Why is it that whenever the story of the internet in New Zealand is told, it never seems to involve women?
I know it was male-dominated back then, but there were women out there using it, doing cool stuff and they deserve to have their stories told too.
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There's a lot of cynicism about the swine flu. The SARS and bird flu scares seem to have been a bit like the boy crying wolf. People are wary of claims of pandemics because they've seen the media going mental over it twice before in recent years with nary an Aotearoan sneeze to show for it.
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NB: Clip also contains perversely gratifying mention of New Zealand.
One strange side effect of this whole situation: that thrill in seeing the world's media paying attention to little ol' New Zealand.
Hey, look over here, America! We have sick people too! Yay! :D
3.I'm calling bob a spammer, but seeing as we're talking about it, I'll leave the post where it is.
I remember the good old days of the palm oil spammer. Things were so much simpler then...
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On a recent episode of Newswipe, Dr Ben Goldacre gave a brutal smackdown to the MMR/austism media bullshit:
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Okay, so who's game for a list of "Best Vocoder/Autotune Moments ever?"
I'm on a boat! I'm on a boat!
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I like how this is turning into a music nerd thread.
Speaking of threads, has anyone here ever worn a hand-knitted jumper with a keyboard design on it? Anyone?