May 2011
“As GW is the body that relies most on innovation and intellectual property rights for those whom it advises, it would seem ironic if it did nothing to defend its own.”
—My email to Grow Wellington today, on whether it would act to defend its IPR on the ‘Wellywood’ issue
The Dunedin mayor who does not care: Dave Cull backs NZ Post management against his own city →
savedunedinmetropost.tumblr.com
We’ve come across the first Dunedin person to say they don’t want the Dunedin Metro Postshop and Kiwibank to stay open.
It’s the Mayor of Dunedin, Dave Cull.
Dunedin mayor Dave Cull has replied to emails from concerned citizens saying the Dunedin City Council has not discussed the closure –…
One word to Mr Cull: lame. These are the folks you are meant to represent. You may agree with Post personally, but if I were in your shoes, I wouldn’t have voiced it. I also hope that there was a typo in the quoted email and that you understand that publically is not a word.
“Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practised for a good many years.”
—HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. Eighty-nine more at The Independent.
Who’s ‘Rory Pond’?
Why are some people calling Arthur Darvill’s character on Doctor Who ‘Rory Pond’? Folks do know that he didn’t take Amy’s maiden name upon marriage, right? She’s not HM the Queen and he ain’t Prince Philip. I know I miss the odd episode, but I’m pretty sure it’s still Rory Williams.
Our time is not our own: time is the new space →
stoweboyd.com
Jolie O’Dell cites another study showing the obvious: that tuning into the world outside the piecework on your desk takes time. It you add up all the time that we spend reading things, communicating with people we known, and looking at websites, and then multiply it by the dollars per hour we…
Great commentary at this post from Stowe Boyd, which includes, ‘If your job can be performed by a soulless automaton, then your business should buy one and turn it on. You are in your job because you are a human being’ and ‘We are learning machines, and otherwise not machine-like at all. We are designed to be constantly learning, as much as possible, and a great deal of our social interaction is based around that dimension.’
