Posts Tagged ‘internet’

We don’t know how lucky we are

Written By: - Date published: 10:59 am, June 24th, 2020 - 32 comments

Looking at the rises in covid-19 infections worldwide is just damn depressing. Looking at the media and Nat supporters, the world, and covid-19 -ll I can say is thank you for the internet. And the kiwis who aren’t listening to the whining about here because they can see the slow disaster unfolding elsewhere with incompetent governments.

TPP aims to kill filesharing

Written By: - Date published: 1:37 pm, October 10th, 2015 - 159 comments

According to the EFF “The Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared”…

Global mode killed off

Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, June 24th, 2015 - 21 comments

CallPlus folds and kills global mode to avoid legal action. We are not amused.

Citizens on the Internet

Written By: - Date published: 3:34 pm, February 3rd, 2012 - 5 comments

YouTube launches political campaign toolset

Written By: - Date published: 12:56 pm, June 4th, 2010 - 2 comments

Today, Google launched a new set of tools to help political candidates and activist organisastions engage with constituents and citizens.

From the Google Public Sector Blog:

We want to do our part to make sure candidates and campaigns have the tools to stay close to voters, who now expect to hear and see much more from their elected officials than ever before.

Internet campaigning

Written By: - Date published: 2:39 pm, January 12th, 2009 - 2 comments

There have been two interesting pieces from the Guardian recently on the way UK Labour are beginning to embrace the opportunities of the internet for political campaigning. The first is here and describes Labour’s spoof of an online meeting of the shadow Tory cabinet (pictured above). The second is here and details UK Labour’s new ‘broad […]

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