Blogs / June 2014
July 2014 | May 2014-
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John Cleese is wrong about humour
- Jack Yan
- Has John Cleese become embittered? He suggests that the Bond films after Die Another Day (his second and final) were humourless because the producers wanted to pursue Asian audiences.
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When it comes to mass surveillance, forget specificity
- Jack Yan
- Be careful what you say on social media in Britain.
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Channeling your inner southern man (or woman)…
- The Wellingtonista
- As if we aren’t fooded out at the moment with all the WOAP preps, the annual Monteith’s Wild Food Challenge starts on 1 July.
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Google Plus is about to turn three: will media remember the hype?
- Jack Yan
- As Google Plus nears yet another anniversary—I believe it’s its third next week—it’s interesting to reflect back on the much-hyped launch.
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Notional Significance: Two Tides
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] The stream is now fully canalised, a tame channel running arrow-straight towards the harbour, as subtle as an engineer’s ruler.
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Today is World Refugee Day
- The Wellingtonista
- Many things are going on but for the coffee obsessed why not grab an extra coffee today at the Peoples Coffee cafe in Newtown.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Facebook reaches its limits again: ‘Sorry, something went wrong’
- Jack Yan
- Mea culpa: OK, I was wrong.
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Ikea tries to shut down its biggest fan site, showing us how the company thinks within
- Jack Yan
- In an age of social media, you would think it was the most stupid thing to try to shut down the biggest online community you have.
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Creating real value, and that’s not what Facebook and Twitter do
- Jack Yan
- My forced Facebook sabbatical came to an end in the late morning.
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A 5th birthday…
- The Wellingtonista
- The City Market (Sundays at Chaffers) is turning 5.
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The Phoenix Foundation: Bob Lennon John Dylan
- The Wellingtonista
- The new Phoenix Foundation video is very good. That is all. (From the Tom’s Lunch EP, which you can listen to and buy over at bandcamp). The post The Phoenix Foundation: Bob Lennon John Dylan appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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I might not have Facebook, but I do speak Ebonics
- Jack Yan
- Forty-nine hours and counting, which makes it the beginning of day three without Facebook.
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Polarization in US politics: doesn’t that go against their idea of “rugged individualism”?
- Jack Yan
- There have been a few articles lately on the polarization of politics in the US, where the middle ground—people with views from both Democrat and Republican sides—has been eroded.
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My forced Facebook sabbatical
- Jack Yan
- It’s been an interesting day with a forced Facebook sabbatical: I can no longer post, comment or like on the site, and it’s been that way since 3 a.
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Reviewing the review: David Burton loses his noodle
- The Wellingtonista
- Once again Mr Burton has ventured into the mean streets of Newtown, this time to get his ramen on, but what he found has not been well-received.
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Decaffinated but decent
- The Wellingtonista
- One of the saddest parts about growing older is discovering that caffeine and I are not good friends.
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Get your game face on…..
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington on a Plate programme goes live on their website this Friday. The Grow Wellington formal WOAP launch party tomorrow night. Visa ticket pre-sales 16 June. Its nearly game on….. The post Get your game face on….. appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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Massey Design Projects at Central Library
- Sarah Free
- Great collaborative work between Massey University and Wellington City Council has lead to the showcasing of Massey School of Design student project work.
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The TV and film ideas that Ireland pioneered
- Jack Yan
- My friend Lou, who I enjoy winding up, just arrived in Belfast on holiday with her fiancé.
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