Local body elections / August 2014
Local body elections
September 2014 | July 2014-
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Conservatives: ‘The Chinese’ are coming! It’s the yellow peril!
- Jack Yan
- We hear from certain parties that proclaim that they want one law for all New Zealanders, yet they’ll resort to targeting ethnic minorities anyway.
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When the parties uploaded their opening statements to their YouTube accounts
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- This is when each political party uploaded their opening broadcasts to their official YouTube accounts.
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Facebook loves spammers
- Jack Yan
- Can Facebook please explain why these obvious bot accounts, all of which have been reported, are allowed to remain on their website? (I have asked Facebook this directly already on Twitter and Facebook.
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Are our beaches safe to swim in? Yes
- Iona Pannett
- Front page story in The Dom today highlights issues around water quality at Wellington beaches.
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I thought political division got you nowhere in New Zealand
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- A week and a half ago, I appeared on Back Benches to talk about Winston Peters MP’s “two Wongs” joke, and confined my comments to that.
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‘Planet Key’ is good old-fashioned Kiwi satire
- Jack Yan
- Fed up with the Electoral Commission barring Darren Watson from expressing his valid view with his satirical song ‘Planet Key’, I made a spoken-word version of it for my Tumblr a week ago, with copyright clearance over the lyrics.
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Caveat emptor: Facebook’s click farm problem is worsening
- Jack Yan
- Many people will remember this video, which exposed Facebook using click farms to inflate customers’ likes (I would have used Veritasium’s original, but YouTube won’t show embedding codes at the moment): Facebook Fraud Exposed: Does Facebook Advertising Lead to Fake Likes? from Reputation911 on Vimeo I won’t repeat what they exposed, as the video does a far better job.
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New office building for the waterfront, unfortunately, the debate continues and continues
- Iona Pannett
- Another debate on whether we should allow commercial office space on the waterfront today. I have consistently opposed this sort of development but unfortunately was not supported by my colleagues except for a few. The commercial arrangements will be debated next week at full Council. Photo courtesy of Wellington City Council
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Conjoint degrees for engineers and architects - great idea
- Iona Pannett
- In the wake of the Christchurch earthquakes, the suggestion from academic John Chapman today that a conjoint degree for architects and engineers be offered is common sense.
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A really positive earthquake strengthening story of a heritage building
- Iona Pannett
- This made me smile today, a great story in The Dom talking about the restoration of the substation on Kate Sheppard Place which is earthquake prone. A great example of how our precious heritage can be strengthened for its next life. Photo courtesy of The Dominion Post
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Kate Sheppard Place, Thorndon, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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The 2014 General Election: the impressions the parties have left, so far
- Jack Yan
- A Kiwi friend, based in Australia, and I were discussing the General Election yesterday on the phone.
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When referring to your Australian office might not be a smart thing to do
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- There are some companies that do not realize that we live in a global community.
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Has Facebook admitted its servers ran out of resources?
- Jack Yan
- Those of you who follow this blog know that I believe Facebook’s servers are reaching their limits.
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A familiar call after two mayoral campaigns on Wellington’s knowledge economy
- Jack Yan
- The latest Victoria University study, expressing that there is a shortage of creative people, sounds very familiar.
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