RT @danilic Channel Nine’s Gold Logie campaign goes too far…. http://tweetphoto.com/20…
“Alomst”? That word, that word right there, explains everything about today.
Fri plan (late): A bunch of emails, client phone calls and podcast interviews from my desk, aiming to reduce th chaos levels; quiet evening.
RT @Cacotopos: Remember the salient point mentioned earlier this week on the twitters: after a backflip you end up facing the same way :-/
Why in politics is reconsidering a position or updating thoughts called a “backflip”? Isn’t being able to evolve a BONUS?
Full Raskin doc shows how times changed. “Clearly, there should be BASIC.” “Portable, under 20 lbs.” http://bit.ly/9rlhkh
From 1979, Jef Raskin’s thoughts on designing computers for real people. iPad, anyone? http://bit.ly/dxee5K
Real first-person shooter vid: Dutch marines clear Somali pirates off container ship. http://bit.ly/cWv4b9
Emerges, but insubstantially.
Still confused, and also disgruntled.
And I am Geoffrey Rush’s shoe. The shoe of a shoe.
Geoffrey Rush holds mystery no longer, @jpoh. It’s like a shoe that no longer causes pain.
Y’know @zerogeewhiz I’ve almost completely lost interest in Tropfest. I’m not sure why. Maybe the format encourages a certain style?
Adding Geoffrey Rush isn’t automatically an improvement.
I still haven’t decided what to do for my birthday, which is next weekend @Nickhodge @mrsnickhodge Maybe hide in the cellar with whiskey.
Moderately confused.
New blog post: “An important roadside warning” http://bit.ly/arRUsp
Alas no, @iain_chalmers, I shall be in the US from 25 to 27 May. More details when I’ve confirmed it’s OK with my hosts.
Now it’s time for my last interview for the day, then I can settle down with some reading and other warming activities and/or substances.
$300 for a journalist to get a visa to the US, @Davidramli? I hope I get that as a freebie too. ;)
I should point out, however, @ssharwood that I am NOT a Twitter Grammar Vigilante. No, Sir! http://bit.ly/9GnNX4
Yes @NewtonMark I will be travelling to the US as journalist. I shall recount the process as I go. It’s a few weeks off yet tho.
A “rockstar CIO”, @ssharwood? You mean an egomaniac attention-seeker who must always be front of stage? Was he a ninja too?
Travelling with single name has been a non-issue so far, @jonoabroad, but then my travel hasn’t been extensive.
It is a brief work trip to the US, @NewtonMark, though I’m not sure if I should say exactly why just yet.
Dear Twitter Grammar Vigilantes, please sod off. http://bit.ly/9GnNX4
Hah! Travel approved! America, you are SO fucked now!
Disagree @NewtonMark, had clients not realise that “your internet link is down” means “email isn’t working”. Ping @nazzer
I can confirm, @nazzer @NewtonMark, I’ve heard plenty of people ask “I’ve finished with Hotmail now, can I use the internet?”
I know, @iain_chalmers, “reaming” is technically enlarging an existing hole. “Did Jobs goatse Lynch? (or perhaps Narayen)” Presumably so.
‘I’m in love with my grandson and we’re having a baby’ http://bit.ly/9igqCn HT @macleanbrendan, apparently.
RT @franksting: Does “reams Adobe a new orifice” mean Jobsy “ripped Adobe a new arsehole”? [Yes. I should have said “ripped”, in hindsight.]
Apparently I should blame Adobe, Engels, Nick Clegg, Scott Baio or Canada. I suspect Scott Baio has a lot to answer for.
Hmmm… I feel about 350% more crappy than I’d intended for this time of the afternoon. Who can I blame?
Me in Crikey today: “Crikey Clarifier: Apple versus Adobe” http://bit.ly/aX3pNV
Home.
I’ve never thought of an orgy as crowdsourcing, @Nickhodge. Currawongs are so Bird 2.0!
Currawong orgy in progress on Sebastopol St. Noisy.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; King St errands; back home again. A brisk walk should be a healthy bonus.
@jonoabroad I’ll have just such a review of the style once I’ve clocked up the 20 episodes. I’d like to keep the consistency for now.
@jonoabroad I’d hoped to get them down to 2 hours. I probably could if I spoke from bullet points not a detailed script but quality suffers.
@jonoabroad I tend to spend quite some time farting about with the fline-grained flow of the script. And drinking.
@jonoabroad Including inspiration, reading, scripting, recording, editing, compression, write blog post, an Edict averages 3 to 3.5 hours.
Actually @jonoabroad if I’m suitably inspired tonight I may do an Edict. There hasn’t been one this week. Certainly plenty to whinge about.
@SnarkyPlatypus Mais je suis paranoïaque, et je n’ai pas de fusil! Il n’ya pas de justice dans le monde!
“Facebook Group ‘Praying’ For President Obama’s Death Passes 1 Million Members” http://huff.to/9jQtzF
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Il ya maintenant une bonne raison pour tous les Américains d’être inquiets. Très inquiet. Et vous?
OK, I’m now in love. Seriously in love. http://bit.ly/bZOrwm HT @macleanbrendan
Emerges, alomst. Later than intended.
[exit]
Home.
Oh look! Thursday night in Newtown. 3G connectivity? Nup. Thanks, #badoptus
Herb bread is a lesson in patience. The Buddha would have approved.
“As seen on A Current Affair” isn’t something I’d put on MY advertising, actually.
RT @grantshow: It would be totally irresponsible of me to go and buy a new MacBook Pro. [Not if you bought it for me.]
Mobile: Enmore Rd; Newtown station; places of mystery and imagination.
Thu plan, revisited: Quick snack, then travel to a SEKRIT location and walk back to get some bloody exercise. For the liver.
“Pubs. They’re like a gym, but for the liver.” Is that what you mean, @SnarkyPlatypus?
I make no claim to being consistent, @PointZeroOne ;)
Oh you misunderstand, @PointZeroOne. My gripe with BrandZ Top 100 was not the concept but that it warranted an embargo.
I can’t recall which comment you’re referring to, @PointZeroOne, but I do write about things outside my own personal care-factor areas.
Me in Crikey: “Google’s got Groggle by the goolies, squeezing hard” http://bit.ly/9jvx2z
DBCDE forum reveals Australia’s internet filter legislation hasn’t been drafted http://bit.ly/9VjRcM
I agree, @deptofinternets. It’s true to say that @FakeeEtiquette has Changed My Life.
Excellent, @gavincostello, the Irish usage of “boyo” explainified http://bit.ly/ag5fSB
Should Eurovision be celebrated at Kelly’s on King again, @SnarkyPlatypus? It seemed a suitably rowdy environment.
Once again I thank the State Library of NSW for free access to so many online databases from home. http://bit.ly/91fx3g
OED @gavincostello! boyo, n.colloq. (chiefly Irish English and Welsh English). Chiefly as a form of address: a boy, a lad; a man, a fellow.
On “boyo”, @gavincostello, the Macquarie Dictionary calls it Welsh and Irish. [shrugs] Might look up the OED.
It seems that @elerimai is right, it IS turtle pr0n! http://bit.ly/cZd5mK
Really, @gavincostello? Has “boyo” just fallen out of use? Or was it a Belfast thing? Or always a cliché? I’m curious now!
Indeed @benrhughes it seems “leadership” has become “slavery to opinion polls and never offending anyone”, eh @KevinRuddPM?
Indeed, @_Tors, can you imagine Margaret Thatcher apologising for having offended someone? Bring back Maggie, I say!
You’re right, @SnarkyPlatypus, “Stil-ghe-licious” is even better. I can certainly do the video. http://bit.ly/4Kk6bM
Hang on, what’s wrong with calling a bigot a bigot, exactly? http://bit.ly/cYy6KQ
Earlier today @thetowncrier invented the word “Stil-tastic”. In hindsight, he missed a glorious opportunity with “Stilicious”.
From 2006, an excellent feature about British double agents in Northern Ireland. Not pleasant. http://bit.ly/a3Iz2e
@SnarkyPlatypus Vous savez, casserole licorne serait bien. Mais je peux aussi penser à autre chose à voir avec une licorne et une carotte.
Arizona’s immigration “debate” seems to skip over a rather uncomfortable history. http://bit.ly/dBdSmM
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Mon monde est un endroit spécial, plein de lapins et de licornes. Et vous?
@Wyane Mate, I can grammerise from arsehole to breakfast time! [Yes, “from arsehole to breakfast time” is in the Macquarie Dictionary.]
Crikey story filed!
RT @jasonlangenauer: I am disappointed by the apparent lack of interest in #daliavatarday.
RT @renailemay: LOL I am about to publish an article from @iDarryl using the word “enema” [Mate, want me to better that? Piss easy!]
Oh @sylmobile now THAT is a suitable change for #daliavatarday … !
I fear that #daliavatarday will never be as popular as #fisting http://bit.ly/17vaH7
That #birdsarejerks is going viral at the ABC is an example of everything that is wrong with our national broadcaster, @garykemble
Well earlier I was thinking about jelly wrestling, @jonoabroad, so ponder a @LaurieOakes and Christopher Pyne match!
Yes @sonieee it was classic ambulance-chaser lawyer stuff. Afternoon radio has ALL the best advertising! WS-FM FTW!
RT @LaurieOakes: Abbott says Rudd “has gutlessed out”. Abbot has grammared out. [Sorry, Laurie, stick with politics not linguistics.]
I just heard an advert on the radio for compensation lawyers which came SO close to saying they’d always win. Classy.
Does anyone care that “Cats” is returning to Sydney “for three weeks only”? No, me neither.
I just thought of another good kitten joke but I’m on the wrong side of this whole argument to use it. Consistency FTL.
Oh now @erkpod Humpr is an AWESOME app name!
You know, there’s a little part of me which thinks that publicly berating my editors is not necessarily a strategy for success… [shrugs]
I was dumped for WORLD CHAMPION CHESS? http://is.gd/bKS8w There’s another six fucked kittens right there! #kittenkillers
Did I mention that on the weekend I thought up an iPhone app like Grindr, but even moar betteror?
We’ve a LONG way to go before #daliavatarday is a trend, @Debichan!
Oh. Hang on. No-one reads Twitter, do they?
Christ, @gabewong, I don’t want my clients at my birthday party! Having half my bloody so-called friends there will be burden enough!
“I speak not merely of that malignant tumour on the face of Australian policy debate, The Australian” http://bit.ly/beFuxS Oh @BernardKeane!
Just so you know, @sophblack and @thetowncrier support the torture of kittens.
Decisions decisions… Do something of value for a client? Or plan my birthday party?
Dear North Americans, a decade+ back a local cable TV news channel did without a news set, just shot from reporters’ desks. Who was it?
“Virgin sale”?
Well let’s just hope, @jasonlangenauer, that enough people support #daliavatarday
RT @todayspolitics: Jon Stewart: Arizona is the meth lab of democracy http://bit.ly/aH3P2m HT @KteeJ
So, @jasonlangenauer, this is now #daliavatarday … ?
@jasonlangenauer Where does a tapeworm grow a moustache, exactly?
Reality does indeed suck, @Nickhodge @Yin_Izanami which is why I prefer surreality. Addictions also help, I’m told.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; lunch; local errands, possibly as far afield as King St.
Getting up someone’s nose, apparently. There’s a surprise.
Is that a suggestion for this afternoon, @SnarkyPlatypus?
Wondering whether subsequent tweets should continue further along this downhill path or not.
Women’s minister Tanya Plibersek and her shadow Sharman Stone, you say @jamesmassola? Can my question involve jelly wrestling?
Thanks @benbarberhays I’m not negative for the sake of it. I genuinely question the increasing artifice and gimmickry of TV news.
Creativity, why do you elude me today? Must I continue reading disturbing feature articles instead?
I’ve just given my opinion of the ABC News 24 set. It’s not positive. http://bit.ly/d7hB4y
Hey @abcnews, the US Senate has its own firing squads now, eh? http://bit.ly/c116il Idiot hyperbole FTL.
Persecution of those seeking to consume content on their own terms has a long, long history. http://bit.ly/ddOVsZ)
Young people do more things with sexual connotations than middle-aged politicians. Who knew? http://bit.ly/cNLJTJ
It appears that “raunch culture” originates in this book http://bit.ly/a8Emlw @chrisberg @NewtonMark Appears to be modish pop-feminism.
Advice for everyone using Twitter: http://bit.ly/bKJjzk
Advice for freelance writers: You get to write more stuff for money if you pitch stories more often.
@simontsmall Crikey work varies according to, well, how often I pitch stories. Long-term average is more than weekly. http://bit.ly/fTcQ1
Not quite emerges.
I’m not sure this is working.
You can’t argue with this kind of prophecy. http://bit.ly/aSSQqS HT @Nickhodge
@megpickard WTF is a “usability theatre”? And does it hurt?
Is Thailand Going the Way of 1936 Spain? http://bit.ly/dgavPA HT @Colvinius Ping @ApostrophePong
Being harrassed by anonymous passive-aggressive tweets.
It appears that #daliavatarday is a failure, and so am I.
I think I might have to leave the SEO conversation until the morning. The cats are far more interested in Full Moon activities.
Home.
My batteries are failing, even the spare ones. I shall now head home and continue the cuntery from there.
The BIG SEKRIT in this release is that if you’re a big global company and spend shitloads on advertising then people will have heard of you.
“You have been sent this email as you have indicated an interest in receiving material on this subject.” No I didn’t.
“Our research shows brand has become increasingly important to Australian consumers” is another amazing SEKRIT.
“Use of social media was a key trend across many of the successful brands this year,” that’s a SEKRIT apparently.
Exactly @renailemay @imtimhanlon! SEO is about making your website work for some idiot machine rather than your customers. Arsehats.
I wouldn’t soil my website with this bullshit.
RT @adavid: If you break the embargo, that means they never send you a release again. Downside is? [Precisely.]
No @NewtonMark @PointZeroOne it’s just “World’s Most Valuable Brands”. Like who gives a fuck?
Like the world will implode if the meejuh says “Strong brands prove their resilience to economic downturn” in the next 70 minutes.
Giggles! Just got emailed “EMBARGOED Media Release NOT FOR PUBLICATION BEFORE 6pm AEST” and it’s just some lame corporate pimpage. Losers.
“45 years of hits live with Glenn Shorrock at the State Theatre”? Kill me. Kill me now.
@duncanriley Seriously, you are HOURS behind the pace! #daliavatarday
RT @grantshow: I love fucking mouse pads! [Well each to their own, I suppose. And they’re easy to clean.]
I think I’m in love. http://bit.ly/dnwXhj
Well, @BradDeLuca, I’d categorise that story with “Sun rises in East”.
RT @BradDeLuca: What about if the story went: “a spokesperson today said if you sign up to Facebook you forego the right to privacy”?
RT @latikambourke Who is your favourite Australian politician and why? Best answer gets a Workchoices mousepad (sadly not signed by Gillard)
RT @jasonjordan: Some mad woman keeps smsing me. Any tips on how to deal with it? ;-) [File for divorce? [ducks]]
You know, I really can’t see any news story with “Facebook” and “privacy” in the same sentence without laughing my head off.
Oh well played @iDarryl! “Five reasons the iPad needs to succeed in Australia” http://bit.ly/9DLyvH
RT @garthk: Which is less toxic? My view project referring to my view model project, or vice versa? [What does this even mean?]
I am listening to WS-FM, @zerogeewhiz, because it’s coming p0ut of a speaker nearby. And one does need to stay in touch with the proles.
On WS-FM, Jonno and Danno spend too much time on really obvious jokes about the death of the 3.5” floppy.
Still sneezing.
“Grindr’s coffee”? WTF?
Erm, not that I’m drinking. Shoosh.
Red wine makes me sneeze.
We are talking deep-fry, @sophblack @thetowncrier @tobiasziegler @peterjblack http://bit.ly/ay2wfL
At this point I should probably mention that my tweets are not necessarily professional advice.
Cocaine, @grantshow. Cocaine is the answer to all your problems. Apparently.
I suspect this is not historically accurate http://bit.ly/c8vBjc HT @rod3000
Oh yes, @Reemski, Dali AND a kitten! #daliavatarday
No @handyjellyfish #daligettingfistedavatarday is quite wrong. Trust me, I know. #daliavatarday
“Wil Anderson and Robert de Castella join Robbo and Danno”, they said. Gawd, I… can… hardly… wait… [thud]
I’ll get back to you on who might be a good example, @simontsmall, ‘cos I have to pretend to start writing now. ;)
Any potential editors reading my last tweet should insert the word “be” where appropriate, and be reassured that I can write grammatically.
Yes, my previous tweet also implies that I’d happy to receive commissions from editors… ;)
But all that said @simontsmall I’m not a good example. I’d get a LOT morre writing gigs if I pulled my finger out and pitched more.
Well @simontsmall my own blog doesn’t pay. ;) I choose who to pitch a story to on gut feeling for likelihood for success.
Thu plan: Morning Crikeywriting; audio edits; afternoon other writing, probably; evening gym & dinner w@SnarkyPlatypusypus, probably.
Nope @glengyron I can’t remember the US/CA TV station that dumped news sets entirely. It was early 1990s so falls into the pre-web gap.
I’ll add that line to my bio. Goes nicely with having written the most unworthy article Crikey has ever published” http://bit.ly/byRJax
RT @BernardKeane: “If complaining on the internet was an Olympic sport you would get a gold medal.” Well that’s you pwned. [So true.]
Astounded at the level of personal abuse Stanley is giving me over my ABC News 24 set design comments. http://bit.ly/9tu52T
Well @BaneAu the best pitch is the one in the form the editor prefers. Just ask! Being sarcastic only seems to work for Crikey.
Gosh @BaneAu for short news/comment pieces the pitch is just a few sentences outlining what you’d write. I can send, but not much use?
I get stuck when there’s lots of responses to a tweet. Difficult to acknowledge everyone. I love you all, nonetheless. Well, nearly all.
Tonight’s word puzzle: Changing one letter per move, and making only valid words, turn FUTURIST into FISTULAS.
Oh, please insert the word “tomorrow” into my last tweet. Further insertion instructions to follow after the watershed.
It’s Tech4Change Blog Day. Reasonable idea. http://bit.ly/cD2D18 But joining ANOTHER social network? http://bit.ly/ap7WfY
The consensus seems to be that I can’t get pregnant, but I may have lost my soul. Or that I am Justin Bieber. Did I get that right?
I touched an iPad today. Can I get pregnant?
Emailing clients to say all complex work has been rescheduled to 2013, but monthly fees still apply. @KevinRuddPM is so inspiring!
Hey McAfee! Slides on Live Meeting, doesn’t work in Firefox? Audio via PHONE? Wait for an operator? Your “webinar” is too hard. Dumped!
Interview done in North Sydney. Heading to the station for the trains home.
You know, you don’t HAVE to pay attention to the bullshit “debates” in society. http://bit.ly/96bTGe
I wonder if Microsoft’s “entertainment” includes rent boys?
Mobile: Stanmore station; North Sydney station; Arthur St, North Sydney (eventually).
Oh. My pants are still at the laundry. As are my shirts. It would appear that I have a pre-errand errand to run. Mobile.
Adobe Flash is used in “several websites”. Goodness! http://bit.ly/cs3KN5
Crikey story filed! Whew!
RT @rbbrown: Greatest opening line ever? “I don’t remember exactly when I felt his erection pressing into my back…” http://bit.ly/bONTIo
@SnarkyPlatypus Je n’avais pas prévu que loin devant, mais, oui, la tequila est un ingrédient de base de notre solution finale.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Nous allons nettoyer toute trace de l’infection!
I pity @jayrosen_nyu today. He’ll have to put this tweet on a tape loop. http://bit.ly/8XV95Z Must add my http://bit.ly/c1qg87