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Kiwiblogblog is not completely dead
Written By: - Date published: 3:36 pm, February 11th, 2011 - 35 comments
Archiving websites is a bloody good idea because the public debate and emerging history of NZ society is shifting more and more into these electronic media. So I asked NatLib about one of those political blogs that disappeared from the blogosphere – KiwiBlogBlog. It still exists…
Dealing with the DIA website-harvest parasite
Written By: - Date published: 2:27 am, February 3rd, 2011 - 13 comments
Periodically I run a scan to identify network parasites that are sucking up our bandwidth and processing resources in excess. Of course I leave the benign parasites that provide search facilities alone. But I stomp on the nasties.
Tonight the biggest parasite appears to have been a New Zealand government department – the Department of Internal Affairs.
New uses for iPads
Written By: - Date published: 10:54 am, December 18th, 2010 - 12 comments
Ok this is seriously weird, too cool, and as bad as the elevator music is. But at least it is not John Key mangling songs with syncophantic radio announcers declaring it to be music.
The band running on iPad’s and iPhone – North Point’s iBand
WikiRebels
Written By: - Date published: 1:45 pm, December 12th, 2010 - 26 comments
A documentary that aired in Sweden last night. Fascinating. The origional can be viewed here. The following is from YouTube as it is more likely to handle the load.
Wikileaks shows internet’s resilience against fools
Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, December 8th, 2010 - 27 comments
A fascinating side-effect of the attacks at various levels on Wikileaks in the last week has been a demonstration of exactly how tough it is to take out a site without widespread support from people on the net.
renesys.blog has a excellent post looking at what has been happening to keep Wikileaks alive on the net.
ISOC looks at the extra-legal activity aimed at Wikileaks
Written By: - Date published: 1:21 pm, December 8th, 2010 - 10 comments
ISOC – the internet society that is probably the closest thing that the internet has as a governing body said “Unless and until appropriate laws are brought to bear to take the wikileaks.org domain down legally, technical solutions should be sought to reestablish its proper presence, and appropriate actions taken to pursue and prosecute entities (if any) that acted maliciously to take it off the air.”
We can probably expect that domain to be back on the air shortly.
Assange voluntarily goes to British court on extradition
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, December 8th, 2010 - 50 comments
Now that the Swedish prosecutors have finally given the British police a document that they can work with, Assange turned himself in, and has gone before a British court on the extradition request from Sweden. The court has remanded him without bail. I have already commented on exactly what I think of the charges – […]
Welcome to the 21st Century!
Written By: - Date published: 9:11 am, December 3rd, 2010 - 14 comments
Sometimes I find it hard to believe how the leaders of this world fail to comprehend what appears so obvious to me. In the Information Age, how do they think secrecy is viable? What is happening with Wikileaks, or more appropriately, what is about to happen, appears to be playing out along the same lines as the rise and fall of Napster.
What is all of the fuss about?
Written By: - Date published: 8:47 am, December 1st, 2010 - 10 comments
There has always been an inherent design conflict in giving widespread access to information. On one hand it allows better service for people and organisations. On the other hand it means that less material can be kept secret because giving more people access to information and more opportunity to whistleblow when people see a problem or an ethical conflict. That has always been the inherent conflict.
Trivia: PM’s tiara rivals milk bottle
Written By: - Date published: 10:04 am, November 7th, 2010 - 8 comments
With all the crap this government’s spewing out at the moment, sometimes it pays to take a breath and look at something a bit lighter. Lynn posted a while ago about some of the oddities of the internet, noting how “milk bottle” was one of the most frequent search terms used by visitors to this […]
Broadband deal illegal?
Written By: - Date published: 7:08 pm, November 1st, 2010 - 10 comments
Are Joyce’s plans for a regulatory holiday on the proposed ultra-fast fibre broadband network a violation of international legal commitments? InternetNZ says yes. Joyce says no. Labour’s Clare Curren accuses the Nats of “disregard for NZ law, legal trade obligations and public scrutiny”.
Caption Competition
Written By: - Date published: 4:08 pm, September 14th, 2010 - 43 comments
Cameron Slater, aka Whaleoil, found guilty today in the Auckland District Court on eight breaches of suppression orders and one of identifying a victim.
Wishart has new rival
Written By: - Date published: 10:45 am, September 9th, 2010 - 14 comments
At last, the left has its own version of Investigate magazine. As you might expect it’s a bit saner and better substantiated than anything Ian Wishart’s written since his conversion, but there are obvious parallels. Hooray for the internet!
Bypassing the media
Written By: - Date published: 3:10 pm, July 7th, 2010 - 1 comment
Not long after The White House Correspondents’ Association met with Obama’s Press Secretary to complain about limitations on their access, The White House launched its own weekly video blog. Presidential administrations have always tried to harness new communications technologies to shape a favorable image, says Mordecai Lee, a professor of governmental affairs at the University […]
If real life were more like the internet…
Written By: - Date published: 12:14 pm, June 30th, 2010 - 7 comments
Ring any bells? Tom Tommorrow at Salon is a great satirical cartoonist, for more of his work have a look at This Modern World.
PM’s Technical Advisory
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, May 9th, 2010 - 12 comments
Prime Minister John Key has released a multimedia demonstration prepared by his Technical Advisory Panel to explain why, despite election ‘promises’, New Zealand will not be getting ultra-fast broadband any time soon under National. Yes folks, like John Key’s Magical Cycleway To Salvation, there are a myriad of previously unconsidered reasons why we just can’t […]
Help the Campaign for MMP, they’re Internet illiterates
Written By: - Date published: 12:11 am, May 9th, 2010 - 53 comments
One thing that the election in Britain brought home to me, was how much I’m grateful for having Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation here. I didn’t start that way. Over time, I’ve grown to appreciate the gradual progress and stability offered by MMP. However the people at the Campaign for MMP could do with a little help in the Internet age. They’re operating like it was 1993.
Copying is not theft
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, April 19th, 2010 - 25 comments
Here’s a catchy tune for all you pirates out there. Get your kids to sing along!
Who is paying for Wellywood ads?
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, March 23rd, 2010 - 4 comments
I wonder who is paying for this ad pleading for people to join the pro-Wellywood Facebook group. The pro-Wellywood group has the bland artificial feel of a piece of astro-turfing, probably from Prendergast or the airport judging by the content. And it stands to reason that the ad is paid for by the creators. Is ratepayer money being used to try to get people to join a Facebook group?
Crossbreed a dumb mistake with wingnuts
Written By: - Date published: 12:23 pm, March 21st, 2010 - 6 comments
An amusing tale of how Rush Limbaugh screws up, and a pile of wingnuts immediately jump to the wrong conclusions.
American wingnuts at their most ridiculous. But we have the angry and irrational breed here as well.
Save Radio NZ dethrones Key
Written By: - Date published: 9:38 am, March 12th, 2010 - 14 comments
Who would have thought that a Facebook group advocating to keep Radio NZ funded and commercial-free would overtake Prime Minister John Key’s fan group for number of members? Well, yesterday at 9.30, just over three weeks since it was founded, the Save Radio New Zealand group reached 18,973 members, passing Key’s 18,972. That gives a […]
Trivia: the milk bottle mystery
Written By: - Date published: 6:30 pm, February 11th, 2010 - 63 comments
Enough of all of this politics. Lets look at something that is more mysterious than the hole that John Key is digging for his political future. Why in the hell is “milk bottle” one of the most frequent search terms for this site? Looking at the search queries that have resulted in a click through […]
John Key – still clueless
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, January 31st, 2010 - 25 comments
John Key is now stands as being first in NZ for being ‘clueless’ on searches in Google. He is number seven in the world as being clueless. The google-bomb is still running! It will be interesting to push him to number one in the world.
The Public Domain Manifesto
Written By: - Date published: 7:42 pm, January 29th, 2010 - 9 comments
The public domain, as we understand it, is the wealth of information that is free from the barriers to access or reuse usually associated with copyright protection, either because it is free from any copyright protection or because the right holders have decided to remove these barriers. It is the raw material from which new […]
Suppression Orders & The Internet
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 pm, November 17th, 2009 - 18 comments
Gagged The Law Commission yesterday released a report on ‘Suppressing Names and Evidence’. It’s timely given that Vince Siemer was arrested just last week for stating on his website that the judge in the Oct 15 ‘terror case’ has ruled that [lprent: gagged – see my comments at bottom] used by police were unlawfully obtained. […]
Equality Trust
Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, November 10th, 2009 - 4 comments
Fancy a link to a well laid-out repository of comparative social statistics with sound credentials, all arranged to demonstrate why inequality is bad for society? Here you go.
The Good Oil: Blast the Right
Written By: - Date published: 11:28 am, November 7th, 2009 - 2 comments
God knows you’ll never hear this sort of stuff from the transnational corporate duopolies that are our erstwhile msm, so many thanks to one of our readers who kindly put me on to this excellent US grassroots site by Jerold Block. It’s a repository of podcasts that basically just contain countless well put counter-arguments to […]
Maybe not very social, but definitely networking
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 pm, November 4th, 2009 - 13 comments
And so my nomination for the 2009 Best Named Site Award goes to a fan club for our beloved Mayor of Whanganui Mr Lhaws: Michael Laws is a complete twat Probably unduly flattering when you think about it, but hey in the overall scheme of things you’ve earned it Mick. More than 3000 members and […]
New Generation Labour
Written By: - Date published: 3:30 pm, November 4th, 2009 - 12 comments
From Phil Twyford over at Red Alert on pig farming. This is Red Alert’s first video blog. Twyford manages to impress me on two of my favourite topics all in one post – technology and animal welfare. Hopefully on both topics this signals Labour moving forward. As the title of his post says: Time for […]
Herald Hacker did us all a favour
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, November 4th, 2009 - 27 comments
The New Zealand Herald have disabled all online polls on their website until further notice, after a hacker (or hackers) severely skewed the results of three polls. I say well done, and I’m sure I’m not the only one sick of online polls being carried out by the media and reported as news. Firstly there’s […]
PoliticsNZ – New role playing game
Written By: - Date published: 2:30 pm, October 2nd, 2009 - 14 comments
A couple of young nats and young labourites have created an online NZ Politics simulation game. It officially starts on the 3rd of October, but you can sign up now at www.politicsnz.com. It looks like it could be fun, but while I’ll play initially, my addictive personality means I might not want to get too […]
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