Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that is open to anyone to edit, unless you happen to work for a member of the US Congress. Then, ironically, you apparently have less rights than other people.
There have been some recent examples of Congress staff tampering with their boss’s, or other’s, details. […] Continue Reading…
April 29, 2006 | Graham
Wikipedia gets precious, and not so brilliant
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April 25, 2006 | Graham
Our own Prince Charlie
Crikey calls him “Dollar Sweetie” but I prefer to call him “Prince Charles”. Not just because “Charles” and “Costello” start with the same letter, but because John Howard is starting to get that familiar-comfortability that Queen Elizabeth has. We’ll have to reimagine England after her, because without her England […] Continue Reading…
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April 19, 2006 | Graham
Where’s Casey?
It’s nowhere near as good as the classic “Where’s Rudy” attack ad of Democrat Senator Paul Wellstone, but http://wherescasey.com/, the work of Republican Senator Rick Santorum is worth a look. “Where’s Casey” is an attempt to exploit the web in a humourous way, although I found it a bit […] Continue Reading…
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April 11, 2006 | Graham
Selling googles to google
Has the University of New South Wales out-googled Google? According to this report Google has bought a new search algorithm from Ori Alon an Israeli who studied at UNSW and now works at Google’s offices in Mountain View California.
But apparently the university has registered a patent on the process […] Continue Reading…
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April 02, 2006 | Graham
Gaven goes as predicted
As the polls predicted, the National Party won the Gaven by-election with just over an 8 percent swing. Listening to them you’d think it was actually the general election. True, a swing like that would most likely deliver them government, but by-elections tend to swing by larger margins than […] Continue Reading…
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April 01, 2006 | Graham
Nats should win Gaven
I’ve been silent on the blogging front for a while, but it only seems right that I put in my prediction for tonight’s Gaven by-election before any results come in. The National Party should win by a narrow margin, but with a fairly modest swing which will indicate that […] Continue Reading…
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March 23, 2006 | Graham
Was it racism?
Stephen Hagan says that it was racism that saw Aboriginal elder Aunty Delmae “left for dead for five hours” after she collapsed at a Brisbane bus stop.
Apparently hundreds of commuters passed her by and finally it was a group of Japanese students who helped her.
But is this really an […] Continue Reading…
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March 17, 2006 | Graham
GetUp changes tactics
So far online campaigning organisation GetUp! has concentrated on encouraging people to send emails and online advertisements to members of parliament lobbying them on various issues.
This might have won them some new friends, but probably not many converts. It would have had little effect on Coalition MPs, who weren’t […] Continue Reading…
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March 17, 2006 | Graham
Last word on South Australia
There is a standard script for party leaders who are expected to lose. Embrace that expectation, predict a wipe-out and say you’re doing your best to hang on, but you are afraid things will be worse than any of the polls suggest. That stiffens the nerves of supporters and […] Continue Reading…
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March 16, 2006 | Graham
South Australian losers
The South Australian election has been more about losers than winners, and those will be the Liberals and the Democrats. One of them is likely to go into terminal decline, while the other will be banished from office for quite some time.
Mike Rann was always going to do well […] Continue Reading…
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