April 2008
“One must go on working. And one must have patience.” Rodin to Rilke, who did *administrative* work for the sculptor…
Good public affairs is as much about influencing policy as it is about communicating it…
Event - Engage Connect Communicate →
SA government seminar
Seen on train: article in celeb mag, ‘I Googled My Lost Family.’
Talk by Douglas Harding →
41 min mp3 of Harding talking about direct seeing
Social media & change management | NPSC Blog →
One tactic that occurred to me is to use the language of public sector managers; that the issue of social media is one of change management.
Sitting at home on a rainy Monday afternoon, wrestling with PHP and CSS (and losing)…
On the box it said ‘Eagle vs Shark’ but the contents were pretty much pure turkey…
Just what atheism needs: a revival. Better yet, a congregation… http://snurl.com/25us5
Virtuosity is it’s own reward. Richard Bishop playing guitar is yours… http://snurl.com/25qsw
Using Facebook for professional social networking is like trying to have a meeting at McDonalds…
First set of options « Connect Horokiwi ::... →
The first implementation plan
We now have options to get broadband into our community http://snurl.com/25pup …it is starting to come together.
PublicMarkup.org →
Transparent participation in the amending of legislation: genius.
PublicMarkup http://publicmarkup.org/ is this the future of public policy? A terrific example of social media in government.
Lest We Forget | NPSC Blog →
One for the Diggers…
5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web... →
Self-explanatory, really.
A poem for the Diggers: Lest We Forget http://snurl.com/25oip
‘Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett’ http://snurl.com/25knz Google? Yahoo! Heh. via @mattlane
3 tags
YouTube - "'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett" →
John Wheeler, on what can be learned by studying black holes: “That space can be crumpled like a piece of paper, into an infinitesimal dot.”
FOSSwire » Create a mirror of a website with Wget →
wget is the mirror feature. This allows you to create a complete local copy of a website, including any stylesheets, supporting images and other support files.
speechwriting…
Attack of the Font Bots http://snurl.com/2585s
Trying to subscribe to a sunday paper: the 0800 no is only open 8-5 and there is no web subscription option. How hard is it? <shrug />
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Pharyngula: EXPELLED! →
Attempt at preventing a scientist into Expelled proves to have unintended consequences…
Ruing my decision to import books into LibraryThing: for an obsessive completist it is not a rational move…
Documentary on ‘Intelligent Design’ - a great opportunity for imbeciles to part with cash and science to hit back: http://snurl.com/25159
“Without shadows, without magnificence,/ The flesh, the bone, the dirt, the stone.” Wallace Stevens, pretty much summing it up…
RNZ ran a BBC piece on gene therapy featuring “tiny nano magnets.” I shit you not…
This NBR article (since pulled) http://snurl.com/nbr-ms is a shameless and ignorant spin on the OOXML issue. Ethics? None here…
Google Hits It Out of the Ballpark: Q1 Profit up... →
Some cracking discussion on implications of Open Source in New Zealand government: http://snurl.com/foss-nz
If you are offering me a bookmarklet, include a freakin’ icon so it doesn’t suck up valuable space on my chrome…
MeetingWizard - SMR conference call →
The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media |... →
“Business leaders are asked to forget everything they know, accept that structures can and will be subverted but that it will all be OK because people will naturally want to collaborate to get things…
Collaborative Thinking: Deciphering Social... →
An onrush of market interest in social network sites has incorrectly persuaded many strategists that such solutions are the presumptive model organizations should adopt. Over-reliance on any single…
I need more spamollers: I feel like the only dog in the neighborhood without fleas…
“Stop giving instructions to God.” Niels Bohr to Albert Einstein.
Factor by which Skype has increased the chance of receiving a dinner time call from SE Asia offering “amazing holiday”?
New study finds that newspaper blogs fail to... →
If only one in ten visitors comment, isn’t that sufficient justification?
The Brain: A Mindless Obsession? →
A successful operation, in Freeman’s view, was one in which the patient became adjusted at “the level of a domestic invalid or household pet.” Between 1935 and 1950 some 20,000 American…
A brief history of psychiatry. Or, the lunatics are in charge (and wielding the icepicks). http://snurl.com/249rw
Rate your agency | NPSC Blog →
Are you getting the support and the tools you need to do your job well now and to grow and develop professionally?
Summize Realtime Twitter Search →
Initial results suggest that it is more than a little flaky/unreliable: but it is a great idea.
Magic moment: driving with a couple of panting hounds in the back, sun on the windshield & ‘The Weight’ comes on the radio. Simplicity…
SEO Score →
Automated SEO report for psnetwork.org.nz/blog/
Blogging meets literary analysis: why people read... →
“the reader belonged to the community even in the absence of participation, and led those who did participate via comments to agonize over their content.”