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Pix from space
This is one of a series of amazing photos from the International Space Station. Awesome! A while ago I blogged about living with a mountain in your backyard and the effect on one’s psyche to live in proximity of a peak. This amazing picture shows a different influence. – P
Is this how Shaun Stenning handles a request for a refund?
A heartfelt comment recently on an earlier thread suggests a mass rebellion of dissatisfied customers in Shaun Stenning‘s Twalk ‘internet marketing business’ in Asia. (Sometimes they use the brand ‘Snipr‘, I believe.) Shades of the Geekversity train wreck which saw demand for refunds sink that um, ‘enterprise’ with a AUD $5.5million loss. This smooth-talking itinerant […]
Facebook for Business? Erm, not like this!
Apropos my ongoing gripe about Facebook privacy… A friend of mine, Marc, mentioned here now and then, has written a book called ‘Facebook for Business‘ … this story (below) might inspire another chapter in the next edition. What NOT to do…. as Click Orlando Radio reports: ORLANDO, Fla. — A Central Florida woman claims a […]
Mow-tee-vay-shuns – ‘It gets a ratings spike’
In, once again (remember the full page ad?), dismissing talk of her jumping the fence and running for office, journalist, Rhodes Scholar and doctorate in politics from Oxford, my hero Rachel Maddow gave an insight into what she called ‘opinion-driven news’, and the motivation of, let’s call it ‘erratic’ behaviour. (Think talkback radio hosts, and […]
George W Bush: plagiarist?
Oh dear me. I thought he was shallow, but a lazy plagiarist as well? George Bush Book ‘Decision Points’ Lifted From Advisers’ Books – Huffington Post. One funny example: From Decision Points, p. 143: “Later that day, Laura and I went to the Washington Hospital Center to visit victims from the Pentagon…I asked one if […]
Ooh, err…
Bleurgh! I can just hear someone saying, ‘Gosh Darnnit. Kids have to grow up so fast these days, don’t they?’
Political pressure
On the giving end… Tom Scott nails it on the relationship between the Reserve Bank Governor and the Government of the Day. On the receiving end … pressure is mounting on Mr Popularity to pay the price of his coalition … … or not. Has John Key got sufficient political capital? Or has he been […]
When the rules change, everyone goes back to the start
Quite a nice followup to my earlier post about e-books changing the publishing/bookselling industry, and notes from Mark Coker. Booksellers: Why Publishers Will Go Direct by Martin Taylor. Quite simply, no one believes that Random House has any more influence over the digital supply chain than a brand new start-up with minimal staff or track […]
Character, not rhetoric or ‘celebrity’: what we SHOULD demand of our politicians
Here are the last few paragraphs of a very good column in the Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) from former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan. She’s writing about the US midterms elections, and does it with insight and verve, and her point goes wider … Conservatives talked a lot about Ronald Reagan this year, but they have […]
Big whoop
This made me chuckle. In my travels I’ve seen advisory signs alerting passersby to notable sights and landmarks. Eiffel Tower, Lincoln Memorial, Place des Arts, Buckingham Palace, Empire State Building, Raffles Hotel, Petronas Towers, Taipei 101, Golden Gate Bridge, etc…. Here’s one I saw today: Gee, I wouldn’t want to have just driven by.
A fork in the road
Written with different events in mind (i.e. Rick Sanchez’s anti-semitic rant – since apologised for – and Juan Williams being axed from NPR following his revealing ‘When I see muslims on airplanes I get nervous’ gaff) this e-postcard made me chuckle about a local situation. It’s true: no one likes being labelled a racist — […]
Is anything on the web ‘public domain’ — as this editor asserts?
Tell that to Rupert Murdoch! Here’s the story, and it’s brazen, baby, really brazen…
