Elections 2010 / January 2014
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A warning to those with rivers.pro tagcloud code in their Tumblr themes
- Jack Yan
- Does anyone have the rivers.pro tagcloud code in their Tumblr theme? If so, it’s time to remove it. The code forwards to a website which McAfee SiteAdvisor labels dodgy. It is very hard to remove from a customized theme, since every time the page loads, the forwarding takes place. You’ll have to find a way […]
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Four ingredients of leadership
- Jack Yan
- I was asked by my Alma Mater, Victoria University of Wellington, to give a 90-minute lecture on leadership last week to students visiting New Zealand from Peking University and the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. (My half-serious suggestion that I spoke Cantonese and the three students from Guangdong who understood could translate to Mandarin to […]
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It’s still wise to bet against Facebook
- Jack Yan
- A non-peer-reviewed academic article from Princeton predicts Facebook will be toast by ’17, and Facebook has very cleverly responded using similar methodology to say that Princeton will have no students by 2021. The lack of review on the former left it wide open for the Facebook attack. However, it’s not unwise betting against Facebook. […]
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The real privacy policy
- Jack Yan
- Documentaries such as Terms and Conditions May Apply (embedded here) and Doc Searls’ The Intention Economy got me thinking about our privacy policy. We have one for our company, but how do we really use your private data? It got me thinking. Since we’ve been online for longer than most people, we have […]
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Finance is broken, and we still haven’t learned
- Jack Yan
- I posted this quotation from I Acknowledge on my Tumblr today: The news that should have us all worried is: the derivatives market contains $700trn of these debts yet to implode. Global GDP stands at $69·4trn a year. This means that (primarily) Wall Street and the City of London have run up phantom paper debts […]
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Google tracks your searches, and uses them, even when your web history is turned off
- Jack Yan
- My dislike of Google is no secret, and, as a precaution, I have every known Google tracking setting turned off. I even block the Doubleclick and YouTube cookies. However, I have to manage a page at Google Plus—and Google cleverly tracks you through its Plus service. It doesn’t lie about it: When you use […]
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Worse reality shows
- Jack Yan
- 2Tapu on Twitter hashtagged #worserealityshows tonight, with Who Wants to Marry a Mutineer? as her suggestion. The hashtag, which went viral tonight, inspired everything from The XXX Factor and America’s Next Top Bottom to The Amazing Racist to the very disturbing Are You Sexier than a Fifth Grader?. 2Tapu contributed So You Think You […]
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Upset about needing Google Plus to comment on YouTube? Here’s a radical idea: don’t
- Jack Yan
- There were a few upset people in November because Google compelled everyone who wanted to comment on YouTube to have a Google Plus profile. Even a co-founder of YouTube, Jawed Karim, objected. But it’s been a long time coming. In 2011, Google combined, as is its prerogative, YouTube accounts with its own. While […]
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Monica Z now out on DVD and Blu-ray
- Jack Yan
- Monica Z, the bio-pic about the late Swedish jazz singer starring Edda Magnason, is now out on Blu-ray and DVD, as of earlier this week. I learned about the movie not through my Swedish contacts—they were messaging me only when the film was in the cinemas—but when Edda appeared at Allsång på Skansen in […]
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How Celia almost knocked off Helene Ritchie
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- The 2013 donation and expense returns are filled with all manner of nuggets of information. For example, who knew that northern ward candidate, Peter Gilberd, who came very very close […]
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Campaign 2013: Who spent what
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- 2013 Wellington City Council campaign expense returns are now online and they make for very interesting (and at times despairing) reading. Mayoral and city council candidates spent $468,991.05 trying to […]
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Did the Greens break the law?
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- There sure is a wealth of nuggets of information in the campaign donations and expense returns. Check out our previous post for a good overview. There are plenty of rules […]
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Four million page views on Autocade
- Jack Yan
- I came across an old blog post that showed that Autocade took four years to get 2,000,000 page views: not bad for an encyclopædia that receives very little promotion. That was in March 2012. It has since crossed 4,000,000, which meant the second 2,000,000 took 21 months to achieve (in December 2013). If the growth […]
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The top-selling cars in France, 2013
- Jack Yan
- Interesting what pops up on Weibo: 2013’s top-selling cars in France. 1. Renault Clio IV 2. Peugeot 208 3. Citroën C3 4. Renault Scénic III 5. Renault Mégane III 6. Dacia Sandero 7. Renault Captur 8. Volkswagen Polo V 9. Renault Twingo II 10. Peugeot 3008 The French are a patriotic bunch. In […]
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Check your Google Feedburner feeds: are they serving the correct sites?
- Jack Yan
- A month or so ago, our Feedburner stats for Lucire’s RSS feed delivery tanked. I put it down to the usual “Google being useless”, because we would have expected to see the opposite. The take-up of Feedburner feeds has usually slowly grown since we started this one in 2007, without any promotion on our end. […]
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Joan Rivers had better facelifts, but it’s the future of the black cab
- Jack Yan
- Part of me admires Nissan for going after the taxi market in a big way in New York and London. Another part of me wonders why on earth the London Hackney Carriage solution is so ugly. I think Nissan should have asked Mr Mitsuoka for advice on how to Anglicize one of its […]
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Open the shop and strip away the jargon
- Jack Yan
- I’ve been reading this Grauniad interview with Rory Stewart, MP, referred by Jordan McCluskey. I’m told that Stewart, and Labour’s Frank Field are the two worth listening to these days in British politics. On Stewart, someone who can speak with a Scots accent and has lived in Hong Kong must be a good bloke. […]
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