How’s your German? This documentation seems to show a Lenovo laptop and phone seized in Wikileaks.de police raid. http://is.gd/oO3F
RT @mumbrella: John Farnham remix of Cadbury’s gorilla not a hit: http://is.gd/oNZg [Yes, I feel soiled just looking at it.]
@noblemonkey Whenever I see a bio labelled “entrepreneur” I want to ask “name the successful businesses you started which still run”.
@jg_rat If you sell me the knife, I’ll sell you exclusive coverage of what I do with it. Along with old photos of a random naked person.
@middleclassgirl OK, I admit it, that’s a pretty special song. And, erm, costume. http://tinyurl.com/dk2v5f
@mpesce Bah! What’s WRONG with a 60-foot penis? http://is.gd/oHBm
@ApostrophePong cleverly posted his Mardi Gras photos in reverse order. Today, building the floats. http://is.gd/oNKT
I’m starting to see too many new Twitterfollowers who clearly only want to sell me something. I’m getting stabby.
@viveka I suspect it pays not to over-analyse the ABC’s question at http://is.gd/oEQR Nevertheless I shall liveblog it.
@Venisejb Gladly. My avatar is Grass Mud Horse (è‰æ³¥é©¬) (Cao Ni Ma). Song at http://is.gd/neBm with background at http://is.gd/omSm
Il pleut.
@jstevenskramer Dunno exactly what we’re doing at CeBIT, but it’s part of the conference stream.
@GeordieGuy I am disappointed, Grass Mud Horse is our friend and ally.
@schmediachick My point was, in fact, that with many new forms of media, #mediamonitoring should indeed look at that, without our paranoia.
@schmediachick I was just describing history. What’s now #mediamonitoring was, in the age of newspapers-only, “clippings services”.
@matthewlandauer I do want to visit Melbourne soon. But just for “Q&A”? http://is.gd/jgrP Nah, not on my budget, alas.
@mpesce WTF? Our cleaners do the entire house in 45 to 50 minutes. Two days for your shoebox flat? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING?
@Nickhodge @SilkCharm @kcarruthers So, we’re all doing the CeBIT social media session in Sydney. How much bafflement shall we cause?
Why do I have an email thread with the subject “Lyndsay Lohan’s Tits”? Oh. Yes. It’s a Crikey thing.
@heavyphotons Agreed, the rules they are a’changing. Ephemeral conversations are now archived and indexed.
@mpesce Hey, I didn’t ask the question! It’s the ABC’s question. Ask them. Or watch my liveblog on the day. Sheesh!
ABC forum “Quality Journalism: How to pay for it? Does it matter?” next Thu 2 April. http://is.gd/oEQR I’ll be covering it for Crikey.
@matthewlandauer Tomorrow night’s “Q&A” live with Senator Conroy is in Melbourne. http://is.gd/jgrP Alas, I won’t be there.
@GreenJ Have you plugged it in? Is it turned on? Are you sure you’ve spelled it properly?
@heavyphotons Media monitoring already covers talkback radio, and Whirlpool isn’t much different. Now if it were a PRIVATE thing… ;)
@heavyphotons The key word is “public”. Whirlpool is public, anyone can watch. If the Minister can’t be there, he gets someone to summarise.
@smperris @heavyphotons The Wikipedia article on “Media monitoring service” is about right. http://is.gd/oPvP
RT @middleclassgirl: There is something seriously wrong with my mental state. [In other news, Sun rises in east, water flows downhill, etc.]
@alpharia LOL! Agreed, that IS a useful image. I could have used that this morning. http://tinyurl.com/cszbgy
@heavyphotons Agreed, “media monitoring” sounds nasty. But it’s just the modern term for what was called a “press clippings service”.
@ApostrophePong I haven’t eaten at Clem’s Chicken on KIng St in YEARS. It sounds like I was right for once.
@alpharia Your last link had “This image or video has been removed or deleted.” Oopsie.
@barrysaunders This is media. It’s ALL in the framing. ;)
RT @wikileaks: Australian government admits Wikileaks censorship lists probably accurate after all. http://is.gd/oPdO
@alpharia LOL! That graphic seems to be appropriate for so MANY of my tweets! ;) http://tinyurl.com/c8w7tu
@willhughes I was eating the satay seafood noodle soup at Happy Chef on King St, Newtown.
@benmoretti It’s not tofu. Altogether too granular and pasty. Like a child’s poo after they’ve been eating crushed peanuts and vegemite.
RT @Nickhodge: @kcarruthers totally wore me out last night. [Please insert your entendres here.]
Awaiting noodles, wontons and whatever the brown floating stuff is.
@firstdogonmoon Oh, apart from the continual pain, endless work stresser and advancing senility, I’m fabulous. You?
Mind you, Marilyn’s comment “stop whining about the fucking pissant rockets” and “time you grew up” outdoes mine. ;) http://is.gd/oOLi
@BiteTheDust I do indeed like (some) Aboriginal art for the “perceptual cartography” aspects. I’ve almost been in tears over some pieces.
@barrysaunders Yeah “monitor” is a scary word. If it were part of an “engagement” strategy, though, people would be much happier.
@michaelmeloni Yeah, it’s my reply to comments by Verity Pravda and “Mel Richardson” at http://is.gd/oOLi … sorry @GreenJ.
Strange Maps: “The World As Seen From Chang’an Street” http://is.gd/oOKO I’ve always liked “perceptual cartography”.
I think I may have just been a little too snarky responding to a Crikey commenter. Well, fuck them.
@neil_mc @barrysaunders Precisely. Folks want politicians to pay more attention. Some them go all paranoid when they do. Oh well.
@heavyphotons Whirlpool as “monitored blog” is tinfoil-hat paranoia. It’s standard media-monitoring awareness. http://is.gd/oDwS
RT @rachelhills: A couple of editorial roles going at #ninemsn. DM me if you’re interested.
@TweetDeck Perhaps an “Are you sure?” confirmation dialog on “Clear all tweets” would be A Good Thing. Le Sigh. [Yes, I did.]
@twoscomplement The rumour mills and armchair lawyers will be running amok now. ;) Dear World, German law may differ from yours.
@trib Maybe we should all now re-voice other TVCs with John Farnham and send them to Saatchi. A Flood of Lame.
@Skywkr I don’t see anything which links German Wikileaks raid to Australia. The Danish, Norwegian and Thai lists were also leaked.
@alpharia If the German police have indeed not followed protocol, it seems an amazingly silly stuff-up on such a high-profile case.
Wikileaks’ media release on police raid. http://is.gd/oOcp Reppe refused to sign search protocol due to inconsistencies.
@alpharia [nods] Just from the smattering of German words I know, it looks pretty standard: “We searched, we took these items.”
@noblemonkey Hello. You already know the answer to your own question. http://is.gd/oO7A Please hang your head in shame now.
@raena @trib Who is it more of an indictment of, though? Saatchi & Saatchi? John Farnham? Out of work assassins everywhere?
@closetgeekshow If you’re interested in more, I’ve been covering AU Internet censorship for 18mo. Nothing indicates DE raids relate to AU.
@closetgeekshow Also, the Internet IS global. That’s kinda the point. ;)
@closetgeekshow Um, there’s nothing in the DE Wikileaks raid to indicate it was related to the Australian leak: NO, DK, TH lists leaked too.
@ssharwood A show of me watching Conroy might be boring. ;) I’ll look at other suggestions later, I must write for now.
@Cocodmonkey Q&A is podcast/iView’d anyway. It’s not about me watching it later but the audience clash. [shrugs] Will figure later.
Hmmm… How will I handle “Stilgherrian Live” tonight when I also want to watch “Q&A” featuring Senator Conroy?
Thu plan: AM writing, probably for Crikey; lunch somewhere; PM project management, desk work etc; 9.30pm AEDT “Stilgherrian Live”?
@SnarkyPlatypus @middleclassgirl By “refresher classes”, you men “buckets of Pernod with Absinthe chasers”.
@SnarkyPlatypus Existe-t-il rien d’un miroir de balle ne peut pas résoudre?
@kimanastasia Thanks. An excuse to say my avatar is Grass Mud Horse (è‰æ³¥é©¬) (Cao Ni Ma). Song: http://is.gd/neBm background: http://is.gd/omSm
@SaschaV A wonderful title at http://bit.ly/27eIx and now all it needs is content. ;)
RT @stephenconroy: I’ve been fired for contravening Telstra’s AWA that mandates that you don’t criticise Telstra — ever — even in jest.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’ai transcendé l’espace et le temps lui-même. Et il se sent bien. http://is.gd/Ioj Et toi?
@mpesce Your “G’morning, all. Another beautiful day…” seems… uncharacteristic. Or have you been inhaling the cleaning products again?
@mpesce Are you channelling “The Prisoner” this week?
@davesag Indeed, I think if anyone’s needed some reading this morning, looking up Grace Hopper is worthwhile.
Skype now world’s “largest provider of cross-border voice communications” with 8% share of total market. http://is.gd/oI5k
@jdub We do, of course, see Letterman struggling with an unfamiliar subject and poorly-written questions (not his fault).
RT @jdub: David Letterman: “How did you know so much about computers?” Grace Hopper: “I didn’t. It was the first one.” http://is.gd/oTeC
Emerges. Without a melon.
OK, bedtime for me. But I think a repeat link to the “Conroy: separated at birth” photo is needed. Just ‘cos. http://is.gd/o95Q [exit]
@Nickhodge I’ve been featured in a “choose your own adventure” book. Apparently “a huge stilgherrian” emerges from a swamp.
@johnhalton True. All cartography is perceptual. See also Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco. ;)