Barack Obama says blogs have no serious fact checking, no context – also noted is that an undercover Huffington Post blogger got damaging information by sneaking into a “no-Press” event.
by Laurel Papworth on September 25, 2008 · 2 comments
This week’s Media Report (Radio National) is on ensuring civility on blogs and social networks.
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The question we were asked to address was this: how do you encourage civility between commenters on your blog? Margaret Simons starts with a Taxonomy of Blog types.
1. Pamphleteering2. Digest3. Advocacy4. Speciality, niche5. Exhibition6. Gatewatcher – [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 2, 2008 · 7 comments
I work with government departments on their social media policies. Both politicans and public servants have some of the same issues. Often showing them case studies of other immigration, tax, heritage, whatever in other countries or other States can help them see how they can sell the idea of conversation into their risk averse cultures. [...]
Gary (that would be Mr. SilkCharm to you. Heh.) Hayes is off to Korea with Minister for Broadband and Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy (Personalize Media):
Gary Hayes will be speaking and representing LAMP and AFTRS at the The 2008 KANZ Australia Korea New Zealand Broadband Summit on 19-20 June 2008 in Seoul, Korea.
The ten or so [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 29, 2007 · 3 comments
EDIT: I had a very nice voicemail from NZ Police Superintendent Hamish McCardle, the officer in charge of developing the new act – he wanted to let us know that they agree about transparency and that [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 22, 2007 · 1 comment
Yeh I know, pollies in online communities is boring, but here’s an interesting debate at broadband’s most powerful online community, Whirlpool (WP), posted half an hour ago:
Does Whirlpool have a formal policy on what sort of contributions political candidates can make here?
A few weeks ago, I ran upon the site of a NSW [...]
by Laurel Papworth on May 18, 2007 · 1 comment
EDIT (cos I forgot there are non-Australians out there who wander into this blog) Senator Helen Coonan, Federal Minister for umm telecommunications and umm IT things, keynoted at a small conference CommunIT (Not for Profit IT) conference in small-town Adelaide, South Australia on BroadBand for Rural Australia. She spoke and left with no question-time.
Ack, I [...]
by Laurel Papworth on July 24, 2006 · 1 comment
I’ve been writing a bit lately about politics. Not here, not the sort of thing suitable for a blog. I’ve even dug up my old Plato’s Republic and played around with creating a virtual world called n00bopolis. Well, enough silliness… But I do want to call your attention to a USalone.com. Its a ceasefire request [...]
2Spare.com (2 Much Time 2 Spare) have a list of the top 87 bad predictions in all sectors. The list has 590 votes. Let me extract out the ones of interest in computing and such – and I’ll add a few at the bottom of recent ones:
«640k is enough for everyone.» William F. Gates III
«I [...]
, Pepsiman
, Leesa Watego
, Andrew@BloggingGuide
, Meet People
