@a_makohon I think @lelak has got it right. Throwing them is too much effort. Just roll them into the ditch or river.
RT @simontsmall: “90% of 20 marketers think using fake persona is wrong” http://tr.im/xw4h Not that I’d call myself a marketer, but.
RT @derekbarry: Why are the media getting quotes from Anna Bligh on a schoolboy death in NSW? [Kevin Rudd was in a meeting?]
@mumbrella I hope I haven’t dragged down the debate too much. At least I’m not swearing. Yet. http://tr.im/xw2W
Apparently hog-tying someone, knifing them and throwing them into a ditch is considered excessive. Who knew?
@martinbarry @mpesce I’ve always found the “push”/”pull” media distinction unhelpful. “Push” is what you “pulled” a request for earlier.
RT me from last night: “Stop Using the Word ‘We’”, an essay on putting directness back into corporate comms. http://tr.im/xtmP
New Zealand’s draft Government Open Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL) recommends Creative Commons wherever possible. http://tr.im/xvNJ
Finally, everyone is out of the house! I can clear some browser tabs and then start writing. I hope.
“Stark realisation: I no longer depend on Google to find stuff” by @alexjcampbell. http://tr.im/xvMJ Hat-tip @mpesce.
Can everyone please take a moment to recalibrate your irony and sarcasm detectors? Make it part of your Monday maintenance routine.
@M_Hickinbotham @trib In a more civilised time than today, Geoffrey Emerson would be hog-tied, knifed and thrown into a ditch.
@M_Hickinbotham @trib “Who cares?” was meant rhetorically. Yes, long-term thinking IS what’s needed. I was far from supporting Emerson.
“Who is Geoffrey Emerson?”, you ask? A man who pays people to create fake endorsements in website comments. http://tr.im/xvH2
@trib @M_Hickinbotham Who cares about long term? Geoffrey Emerson gets links, gets paid, is gone. Later implosion not his problem.
Conference WiFi goes dodgy as he load goes up. Surprise surprise. I’ve switched to my own connection. #foi09
@duncanriley Apparently we’re meant to be using #foi09 not #foi, because we don’t know what year it is or something.
@ApostrophePong No, I only have one phone charger. Try in the kitchen? Under my desk? (This is why we invented the Internet.)
Mind you, only 10 of those 75 people have arrived so far, and the welcome is scheduled for 0820, in 3 minutes. #foi09
@wheelyweb If “no-one” is here, then it must be a message from a narrow, self-centreed “everyone”. Looks like about 75 people in SYD. #foi09
There’s another conference here called “Whisky Live”. Can I change my tickets? #foi09
Are monks allowed to run for the bus, or should they let go of their desire for punctuality and accept time’s flow?
Sartorial Suggestion #58: Check that cats weren’t sleeping on your black pants BEFORE leaving the house.
Mobile: Stanmore station; Central station; Sydney Masonic Centre for Future of Influence Summit. #foi09
The problem with a John Della Bosca sex scandal http://is.gd/2K1vq is the mental imagery it conjures up. Power is appealing, sure. But…
@SnarkyPlatypus Je suis moins enclin à poignarder des gens aujourd’hui, à ce jour. Nous allons voir à mon arrivée à la confér#foi09#foi09
@trib Well, last year’s FOM led to ‘Note to “old media” journalists: adapt, or stfu!’ http://is.gd/2JZJ4 Hoping world has moved on. #foi09
Tue plan: Future of Influence Summit (SYD) http://is.gd/2JYnd #foi09; late arvo errands in Sydney CBD; early night?
@SnarkyPlatypus Le sommeil est pour la semaine. Les chats sont fort. L’air est froid. Et vous?
Emerges.
Awake again. That wasn’t my plan.
I’m home. There is no blood. Probably. [exit]
Kill them. Kill them all.
Christ I could truly kill some clients.
RT @facibus: Lentils are in fact the droppings of vegetarian wood-sprites - ipso facto “pooey”.
@zhasper Yes, I did use http://downforeveryoneor… but some people had doubts about its accuracy. They are, I have decided, fools.
Can has routingz!
@willhughes @lewellyn Thank you. Thru this Unwired network I get as far as some Singtel data centre (where?) then… nix!
@mpesce @barrysaunders @StanmoreRob Thank you. I did believe that to be the case. Oh well, so I can’t do work from where I am. Such a drama.
@mpesce Can you see http://stilgherrian.com atm? Deciding whether to trust intel which says it’s a local problem.
Someone in the background has just used the words “those black cunts” three times in a minute. No, there is no racism in Australia. Sigh.
@lindsayevans Well, yes, anything can be wrong. But it says http://stilgherrian.com and my other sites are OK. And I’m talking to you now.
@lewellyn How does the placename “Coogee Bay” sound to you? Sort of furry and cuddly?
http://www.downforeveryo… is your friend.
@snrkl No, I haven’t bothered with a traceroute. My end works. The SFO end works OK. I can’t fix whatever’s wrong. Patience is called for.
I will be much happier when whoever’s routing prevents me connecting to my SFO server fixes whatever is going wrong.
OH: “X is charged with assaulting a police officer outside the Coogee Bay Hotel.” So many redundant words there.
@BernardKean “Having trouble making this collection of snarky comments… hang together as an actual argument.” Just imagine you’re A Bolt.
Botheration. I forgot to charge my second phone battery. Now I feel like I have an iPhone.
@bengrubb Do you ever actually eat, you know, real food?
RT @firstdogonmoon: A new firstdogonthemoon t-shirt as requested by the #cultofmpesce - http://tinyurl.com/m5weg2
@lelak I’m not sure who you think I despise on general principles, but it’s a fair bet, yes. I despise most things. And rightly so.
Laughing at The Leading Edge’s survey on behalf of OPSM which asks what I think of a competitor when I’ve already said I’ve never used them.
@htgoldcoast While Crikey is run by truly wonderful people who turn everything they touch into pure joy, they’re not going to make me rich.
@BernardKeane @BiteTheDust The good thing about the “Roads to Recovery” slogan is that it acknowledges the sickness. ;)
@BernardKeane I suspect @SnarkyPlatypus can best respond to your question. My brain is depleted until this kangaroo arrives and is eaten.
In the interests of today’s theme, “disclosure”, those last two links were to Crikey stories, and Crikey sometimes pays me to write stuff.
And @BernardKeane does it again! “Watching the slow death of traditional political TV, part 1” http://tr.im/xwmw
Good, I’m not the only one who thought Fairfax’s Brian McCarthy talking to News Ltd sounded like cartel forming. http://tr.im/xwlM Ta, ACCC.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; King St; lunch; back to my desk to write stuff.
New “A Series of Tubes” podcast online. http://tr.im/xwgt @R_Chirgwin, me ranting, Steve Dixon from Riverbed on IP optimisation.
@franksting There is always beer. ;) There’s only a few evenings in any a week and #smcsyd has yet to “grab” me.
@mrblack You refer to “common folk… inciting revolution” like it’s a bad thing.
@nazzer And one person being treated for injuries in a hospital requires the state Premier to comment… why? (Rhetorical question.)
Note to someone whom I won’t name: No, a new camera will not help. Your photos will still be lame, clichéd shit.
@lewellyn Yes, time to play with the toys. And, even better, beyond that, actually doing something constructive or creative with them!
@SnarkyPlatypus As we discussed yesterday, it’s truly embarrassing how many people just HAD to have Snow Leopard on Day 1.
RT me from earlier: http://lastyearsmodel.org helps put things into perspective.
@SnarkyPlatypus I’m starting to get really shitty with people who can’t see beyond shiny toys and their own consumerist self-indulgence.
Also, “Impatient CEOs are all of a Twitter, but it doesn’t work like that” It’s a 25-year scale. http://tr.im/xt8Y
Bruce Sterling sees the Future, and it’s banal. Just like the present. http://tr.im/xt7K
“There’s no better way to waste your time than to talk about politics”, says @dozba http://tr.im/xt5o
@courtney_gibson Oh yes! That 1961 Sabrina oil commercial is excellent. http://bit.ly/UklXk I gather it was on “The Gruen Transfer” too.
@franksting @SnarkyPlatypus @Venisejb @juhasaarinen @ikostar You’re welcome.
RT @kcarruthers: OMG this Pacific Ocean garbage patch is so wrong - what are we doing to the planet? http://is.gd/2Hhsh
@infoholic Glad to be of service. I do find excellent things on the Internets. [bows]
Actually, this is perhaps the best photo of Sabrina of all! http://tr.im/xsYS
@SnarkyPlatypus Yes, Sabrina does seem to be causing a @DistractedPlatypus http://tr.im/xsYt
And should you desire more (hah!) of Sabrina aka Norma Sykes, try http://nylon.net
Gentlemen and women who prefer ladies with ample cleavage might like the last link in my previous tweet, i.e. http://tr.im/xsWq
@SnarkyPlatypus “Sabrina pats a platypus!” http://tr.im/xsW4 More on Sabrina at http://tr.im/xsWg and http://tr.im/xsWq
O! M! F! G! http://tr.im/xsUI #antlers
@rbbrown Faux meat products are an abomination. Please respect the integrity of nature’s boundaries. Respect the vege for its own worth.
Richard Platypus: “If you were to reduce it to a plot and the plot to topics, they would include neo-colonialism and drug addiction.”
@SnarkyPlatypus Check out Richard Platypus! http://tr.im/xsTM “I am a novelist, unpublished in that field last time I checked.”
@SnarkyPlatypus If you search for imagery in French, the platypuses look more snarky. http://tr.im/xsSV
@BernardKeane @rbbrown When my father died, our church (Uniting) did SFA, but local Seventh Day Adventists gave us lots of practical help.
I require a cup of tea and a large knife.
@yeebok Sorry, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
@Nickhodge It is moderately gratifying that you showed me this photograph. Thank you. http://tr.im/xsGs
Americans are pathetic. Why is the “Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend” video deemed NSFW? http://tr.im/xsEp
@BernardKeane Please stop destroying all my illusions. At least on the weekend. During the working week, well, that’s your job.
Excellent. http://lastyearsmodel.org is “Saving the planet through sheer laziness”. And saving money for something better.
@BernardKeane I guess “0 d3@d” could be the pseudo-1337 version, but I think we’ve moved beyond O=0 and E=3, no?
@BernardKeane Maybe we can make “Oh dead!” INTO 1337! Exclaiming “Oh dead!” means something’s so good it killed you. Maybe.
Oh yes! What an excellent song. Um, for some value of “excellent”. “I’m On A Goat” http://tr.im/xszz Hat-tip @Tarale.
That was meant to be “Oh dear”. If I ever start a tweet with “Oh dead”, I’m lying. If I start it with something else, you can’t be so sure.
Oh dead. They HAVE made a movie of “The Men Who Stare At Goats”. http://tr.im/xswL
@RealBalance @unsungsongs Detroit’s problem started as vacancy. Extended vacancy led to dereliction. http://tr.im/xoel #RenewNewcastle
Photos: Computer History Museum http://tr.im/xssu “Scroll down for captions” + no caption on first image = UX FAIL!
Christopher Hitchens on being waterboarded: “Believe Me, It’s Torture” http://tr.im/xrOP
I think it needs a Barrel segment, or a Wheel.
@SnarkyPlatypus Il est plus facile de faire face à Gerard Henderson si vous imaginez-le dans une orgie avec quinze nains hermaphrodites.
@trib There will always be liars and cheats. The need to point at them and say, dispassionately, “That man is a liar and cheat” is eternal.
Mon plan: Write presentation for Friday’s #nswsphere http://tr.im/xvt6 plus end-of-month “paperwork”, in no particular order.
@mrblack If you’re trying to get me to care one iota about commercialised team sport on TV, well, you’re really pushing it uphill there!
@SnarkyPlatypus Peut-être que je deviendrais un protestant. Il pourrait réduire mon envie de poignarder les gens.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Il ya du vent, mais les protestants semblent être d’adaptation. Et vous?
Emerges.
That’s enough now. [exit]
@wolfcat I can see “[fixed link and content]” becoming a useful tag.
Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! http://tr.im/xtuI
OH FFS GO AND LOOK AT THE GODDAM PUPPIES YOU PEOPLE! http://tr.im/xtud
Quick! Look! Even more Puppies! http://tr.im/xttM
Just before I think I made my worst accidental typo ever. I don’t think anyone noticed though. Probably.
Quick! Look! Puppies! http://tr.im/xtsX
@kcarruthers That’s different. You’re a girl. It doesn’t cunt.
@natecochrane Michelle Grattan writes in such a clear, direct prose style. Much to be admired.
@neerav If you’ve changed the words, exhibit transparency and mark it as such.
@neerav No. RT as much as you like. But don’t fucking well mis-attribute to me things which I didn’t say.
“Stop Using the Word ‘We’”, an essay on putting directness back into corporate comms. http://tr.im/xtmP
@infoholic In a nutshell, item 2 in http://is.gd/2Hq6D just says “Leave room in your tweets for people to RT them unedited”. ;)
@KateKendall Exactly! A writer’s writing = branding. I love it when a good sub improves my words, hate it when a clumsy sub kills subtlety.
@dananimal Twitter is putting RT into the API. http://tr.im/xtio That may change the evolving usage rules significantly.
@seancarmody A linguistics primer in 140-char installments? Eek! But I think my longer-form writing is better. YMMV.
@seancarmody @gga @metarand Given that I did linguistics too, I’d been thinking of doing more serious research and writing. ;)
@metarand That’d be @zephoria’s “Tweet Tweet Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter”. http://tr.im/xtgN Ta, new to me!
Anyway, them’s my rules for RTs and HTs. Others’ usage varies. You can’t truth them, obviously.
What I describe for RT is really just the same as the rules for using quote marks in other contexts: transparency about what’s been done.
@seancarmody IMO, if the words are a clean subset of the whole and any gaps marked, then it’s an RT. Otherwise, re-word and acknowledge HT.
@grum You are several shades of awesome and cuntliness all at once. You deserve some sort of reward.
@neerav Yes, add content as you wish. But failing to flag additions as outside what I said is mis-quoting and fills me with anger.
@recaffeinated My life is full of Futile. For me, it is not a rare earth element. Sadly.
“Known”, that was. Known known known known known. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
Also, I do not ever spell the word “to” as “2”, even on Twitter. If you see that in an alleged RT of me, they are lying cunts.
Unto all to whom these presents shall come, be it know that I do NEVER use the term “scifi”. Ever. Except when quoting.
@neerav Um, I am misquoted there. I never called Bruce Sterling “scifi”, and never would. For me, RT is direct quotes.
@recaffeinated Actually, that’s the first time I’ve mentioned Snow Leopard, as an example. This will be the last. My frustration is real.
Deleted scene from “2001: A Space Odyssey”: “My God! It’s full of skunties!”
The staff have told me I’m not allowed to bark like a dog.
@courtney_gibson “If Tracey Grimshaw is your Jennifer Byrne, where does that leave Jennifer Byrne?” Um, somewhere better.
@mpesce The Tudor is “daggy”? Man, I really have to take you on a field trip!
Tracey Grimshaw, you ARE my Jennifer Byrne!
Certain aspects of your face markedly decrease your attractiveness to women.
There are some who would seek clarification of your parentage.
I have doubts about your ability to conform to an acceptable standard of behaviour on licensed premises.
Also, your taste in music is questionable.
I mock your Hello Kitty car seat covers and pointless fins.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; King St; @SnarkyPlatypus; gym; late lunch; unpredictability; awesomeness; Nebraska.
“Afterbirthers” demand to see Obama’s placenta. http://tr.im/xoRI
@unsungsongs It is noble of me, yes. I am the very picture of nobility. I went to a Private School, after all.
@SnarkyPlatypus “Some Twitter people have issues with remembering my real name”? Really? What’s so hard about “Oi! Cunt!”?
Ha! @BernardKeane: “Rees isn’t really the problem, in the sense that the coat of paint on the Titanic wasn’t the problem.” http://tr.im/xoIt
How do you reconcile your nickname and legal name in promotional material? http://tr.im/xoHk Hat-tip @BiteTheDust.
@unsungsongs I spend time in pubs because I’m a great supporter of Australia’s local cultural institutions. [nods]
@unsungsongs We have friends in Newcastle. It can be arranged, I’m sure. We shall see. Your beer offer is always tempting. Not that I drink.
@unsungsongs It’s certainly a good excuse to show Newcastle to @ApostrophePong, but it’s all driven by budget alas. http://tr.im/xoAC #TINA
RT @mpesce: SciAm: “Depression’s Evolutionary Roots” http://tinyurl.com/mdgl2y (fascinating research) [Agreed.]
@michaelmeloni Gym on the weekend because @SnarkyPlatypus is useless during the week.
Sat plan (belated): Potter around the house until gym & late lunch w@SnarkyPlatypusypus; eat real food; remainder TBA.
@gga @SnarkyPlatypus I still want an Avenging Narwhal Play Set. http://tr.im/xopO #crystaltusk
Future of Influence Summit program looks rather nifty! http://tr.im/xolY My 25% discount code is TIESTIL. #foi09
This transcoding goes much faster when I realise that I don’t need to do it in full HD for a web video.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Cate Blanchett is minge for the middle class. [Fair enough, but who’s their man-minge?]
@SnarkyPlatypus We must compile a list of my totem animals, avatars, chanteuses. It’d be good Google-bait, like http://tr.im/xogr
@courtney_gibson Hah! I was thinking the same thing! Just shoot your post-apocalypse scenes in Detroit.
@unsungsongs And I haven’t said it explicitly before: Fucking WELL DONE on all your work in rejuvenating your home town. #RenewNewcastle
@courtney_gibson The photo that hits me is the one of the dentist’s chair. Those things are worth $200k and yet it’s just left there.
Naturally, a friend of mine saw this video and immediately thought: A new generation of sex toys! http://tr.im/xofs
@unsungsongs I dunno, Marcus, maybe these photos from Detroit will inspire you! http://tr.im/xoel Hat-tip @ApostrophePong. #RenewNewcastle
@SnarkyPlatypus Peut-être que la chanson est correcte. Mais la chanteuse, est-elle correcte? http://tr.im/xodK
Transcoding my video footage from last night’s CupCakeCamp so it’s compatible with @ApostrophePong’s production workflows. #cccsyd
@SnarkyPlatypus Mais je suis un ange! Je suis Lucifer. J’apporte l’illumination! Et je ne dors jamais bien, il paraît.
@nicster I consider the Tudor Hotel in Redfern more “quaint” than “daggy”. But I use words strangely oftmisseltone.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. La plage est belle au lever du soleil. Un manque de sommeil est moins belle. Et vous?
The shoot is done! @ApostrophePong moves to post-production now. Well actually, breakfast at Coogee Beach now.
We’re in the cab on the way to Coogee Beach. The Fates are with us: same light as two weeks ago. Sunrise in 7 mins.
Sun plan: Re-shoot two shots for @ApostrophePong’s film; relax at home this arvo before a busy week ahead.
Extract from “The next 100 years” by Stratfor founder George Friedman. http://tr.im/xqZ2 Japan-Turkey alliance vs US-Poland?
@michaelmeloni Thank you. Sunday seems to be going reasonably well so far. That said, it hasn’t presented many challenges yet.
Emerges. Thank you, Apollo. While I did have the alarm set for 0500, your assistance is a thoughtful touch.
Home. Have to be up at 0500 to be at Coogee Beach at 0630 for @ApostrophePong’s film, apparently. [exit]
MySpace has a lot to answer for.
I love walking past the Cyprus Club! It’s like a toxic plume of barbecued lamb.
Bother. @ApostrophePong has just roped me into being camera assistant for CupCakeCamp. Quick shower and shave time! #cccsyd
@matthew_dasilva Even if it were, PPC-1 added 50% capacity for $200M. NBN is $43B. Slice off $1B for overseas links, all good. #publicsphere
@matthew_dasilva Silicon Beach seems to be assuming that NBN’s usage will primarily be international. It won’t… #publicsphere
@matthew_dasilva International data bandwidth has grown steadily to meet demand quite OK for 20 years. Demand, supply, etc. ;) #publicsphere
@matthew_dasilva PPC-1 is 1.92Tb/s fibre Sydney-Guam, goes live Oct. Total overseas data capacity up ~50%. http://tr.im/xjOz #publicsphere
@rynobi NBN needs sub-sea investment? Well, PPC-1 adds almost 50% capacity in October. http://tr.im/xjN4 #publicsphere
@bengrubb That’s what I get for looking on Digital TV Australia’s own website ;) ThIS is the new media release. http://bit.ly/133BJz
Digital TV milestone: More than 50% of Australians now using digital TV. Sen Conroy’s media release at http://tr.im/xjId
@DavidTangye The core feed from #publicsphere is using http://livestream.com, camera and audio-in plugged into @piawaugh’s laptop.
@xtfer “Conroy doesn’t know his stuff” is naive. He no more needs to be network engineer than Fitzgibbon a figher pilot. #publicsphere
“A Series of Tubes” podcast chat recorded! @R_Chirgwin and I did end up talking about Apple vs Google. Sorta.
@einspruch @viveka Ta, gents. I actually have plenty of Aussie stuff to talk about, but thought I’d ask just in case. Recording in 5 mins.
@einspruch I haven’t read the Apple / AT&T / Google / FCC stuff. 15 mins to recording time. Yeah, I can be insta-pundit! ;)