Collapsing.
I suspect Sydney Writers’ Festival frowns upon bringing loaded firearms.
@marcfennell Am I allowed to shoot back? http://t.co/mIgEdwEv Actually, this one. @TommyTudehope http://t.co/mfJzkFPt
RT @nwjerseyliz: Social Media Metrics that Matter http://t.co/aTLCJkrP by @etelligence via @Sun_Social [Links to a blank page then?]
@marcfennell But… but… if you don’t moderate us I’ll have to PREPARE something!. @TommyTudehope
It appears Sydney Writers’ Festival has assigned @marcfennell to “moderate” me and @TommyTudehope, poor sod. http://t.co/asYTYTr0
@drueyjay Oh Christ no, I’m not doing a 2-hour train trip to @bunjaree at this hour! I’m at my regular hotel and shall sleep comfortably.
That 13-minute time from aircraft to train was WITH checked luggage, @DeanBarnett. Mind you the terminal was otherwise empty.
I am checked in to the hotel, I have removed all tight-fitting garments, and I am opening a beer.
I am confident that at some point tweets will be delivered to me.
Oops forgot to change trains at Central. Around the loop I go.
Fuck me dead! #qanda is just Twitter with cameras.
@BernardK Thank you, bit please excuse me if my interest in work at 2230 is approximately 0.
Last flight into Sydney T3 for the evening. Elapsed time from aircraft at gate to being on a train to the city: 13 minutes. Ping @ataraxite
When a company advertises in the men”s toilet, is it because they want us to associate their brand with urine? Or with beat sex?
Everybody is rushing so they can stand around waiting for the aircraft door to open. They are very stupid, even the rootable ones.
I have reason to believe that I am now in Sydney.
Thank you, @laurenetrim @HamishBarwick @kcarruthers @stufromoz @BernardK
Some of these chaps at Perth airport seem be involved in the mining industry somehow.
Je suis through security into Perth airport Terminal 2.
@HamishBarwick Qantas have done nothing wrong. Canberra didn’t approve a post-curfew landing in Sydney last night. #qf566
OK, time to check out, get a cab to the airport, and attempt #qf566 once more. Wish me luck.
Maybe if I tell the PR firm responsible that the whole thing was “a bit Kyle Sandilands for my taste” they’ll get the hint.
RT @dr_nic: You have seen this? http://t.co/J5exRE1R [Nope, been flat out on other stuff these past 24 hours. “Nice” bit of misdirection.]
Mind you, I ran a 10-minute hoax item as the 0830 lead story on ABC @891adelaide one April Fools Day.
A question for PR professionals who follow me. Isn’t astroturfing considered unethical?
The “Oh we don’t know who was responsible!” is clearly a lie. Who the fuck wants to do business with liars?
If that sounded vague, well, my colleagues, peers and the guilty party know who and what low-rent gimmickry I’m talking about.
I seem to have received a message from a major electronics manufacturer’s PR firm that significantly reduces my gruntlement. What bullshit.
God Bless the Minibar.
@lockeash11 Agreed, the “let’s ban gun type X” is illogical knee-yerk bullshit. But welcome to politics in the 21st century.
@MediaMook Ah! You need to use the “generate link” button (looks like a pair of chain links) to link to the specific view.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Earworming Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time” relentlessly. Brain, pls have some mercy on me. [So, me in that outfit?]
Me at @crikey_news: “Street View Wi-Fi: is it Google’s News of the World moment?” http://t.co/ApjW1mUN
Rules broken.
On the phone, attempting to break the rules. They’ve put me on hold.
Backing up all the things.
And the “Patch Monday” podcast is recorded. But it’ll be posted tomorrow, Tuesday, ‘cos there’s not enough time to edit before my flight.
As opposed to The Lazy PR Student, a certain pro PR operator just provided a substitute podcast guest when their first couldn’t take part.
Under 30 minutes untii podcast recordiong time. Preparing, both psychologically and technically.
Laughing at a prima donna. Little do they realise how much this lowers them in my eyes.
So Microsoft Reputation Services has a category “Blogs/Wiki”, because they must all be bad and blockable for work. Arsehats.
@nathanscholz Thanks. The “dubious” (for security, no less) was solely for the t.co URL. Mine directly has even more categories! JOY!
RT @petertaggart: Clive Palmer lost in ’84 to…..Peter Slipper! We’ve come full circle now, people. Shut it down. [Ah, glorious day!]
@nathanscholz And besides, what sort of censorship category is “dubious”? There’s doubts about what, exactly? What pathetic halfarsery!
@nathanscholz You mean a link TO my website was flagged as “dubious”? Who’s your filter provider? I’ll sue the cunts for defamation.
@twcau I don’t think the rest of the #qf566 refugees got such a good room. I was upgraded for… other reasons. Top-level loyalty member.
Oh I have a plan for handling the PR student’s situation, @valeriekhoo @AdamFowler_IT @wombie_ @izevaka @PointZeroOne ;)
That PR student I gave advice to for their class exercise? More than a week later, still no acknowledgement. Pathetic. http://t.co/UWqHMmpe
Story filed for @crikey_news. It’s 0830, time for breakfast ans the like.
I wonder what impending disaster Clive Palmer is distracting journalists from. Maybe if ONE of them looked, instead of me-to Cliveparroting.
The very existence of Clive Palmer is one giant troll from arsehole to breakfast-time, @purserj @GrogsGamut @BernardKeane.
Dear Journalists, still in @BernardKeane’s Perpetual Present? Didn’t Clive Palmer just TELL you he deliberately trolls the shit out of you?
RT @terencehuynh: Oh for f**k sakes. RT @abcnews: #BREAKING: Clive Palmer to challenge Wayne Swan in next federal election
Clive Palmer building replica Titanic? Business fortune all on paper? Grandiose plans? Think “Alan Bond”. How’d that turn out again?
I’m writing now shut up.
@awelder Multitasking will never do. It’s just lateral communism.
More Sunrise over Perth instagr.am/p/KBXhC9CFl6/
@Gwyntaglaw Are you familiar with “The 9pm Edict”? stilgherrian.com/category/edict/
Mon plan: Write for @crikey_news; #buffetbuffethippo; 1000 record “Patch Monday” podcast, start edits; 1615 QF566 PER-SYD, reading en route.
Look while you’ve all been arguing bullshit about journalism I’ve actually planned my day and been productive. You should try it too.
@jplonie SHUT UP I AM STRANDED IN THIS 5-STAR HOTEL THAT UPGRADED ME AND I HAVE ENDLESS #buffetbuffethippo IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO ENDURE.
Sunrise over Perth instagr.am/p/KBU9VoCFkE/
@leslienassar STOP YOUR FUCKING WHINGING AT LEAST YOU MANAGED TO GET A PLANE TO SYDNEY MOTHERFUCKER!
While we’re at it, journalists can replace half the caffeinated drinks they scoff with valium. SETTLE THE FUCK DOWN, PEOPLE!
New law! Political journalists may not report ANYTHING until they’ve had a Bex and a lie-down and thought it through for 24 hours.
GordyPls Tougher gun laws; because people who don’t respect the law that says don’t shoot people, will respect one that says you can’t have the gun.
“Reusable ‘horse race journalism’ fails the public”, said @jayrosen_nyu on Lateline, 12 August 2010. Insiders poked. http://t.co/bZPIr2V8
So it would presumably be OK, @mattgillard @NewtonMark @Drag0nista, if the opinionating were subtle and undetectable? ;)
RT @mattgillard: @NewtonMark @Drag0nista I draw the line with news that obviously contains opinions when it should be objective reporting
RT @PardusXY: @Drag0nista your mouth to god’s ears. [Exploring further combinations there could well explain every type of journalism.]
The logic there, @Drag0nista, would be “This is impossible, so we must try even harder”? ;) OK, now I am trolling.
Drag0nista @stilgherrian Yes, I know. No-one is truly objective. But even more reason for the line between reporting & opinion to be enforced.
RT @NewtonMark: Nah mate, we’re all idiots who need to be lead by people who are better than us. [Exactly. Like us private school folk.]
@Drag0nista I’ll agree 100% with that sentence if “objective” is removed. Everything we even see is filtered by our personal worldview.
My “mistake” was reading Alfred W Crosby’s “The Measure of Reality”. Give ‘em numbers (politcal polls, Klout scores), numbers become “real”.
What lowers credibility for me of Insiders-like work by journalists, @Drag0nista, is bullshit horse-race speculation, no policy analysis.
The fact that we see screechy OMFG A JOURNALIST EXPRESSED AN OPINION! shows that we can tell it’s an opinion and judge for ourselves.
sylmobile “With the possible exception of things like box scores, … there is no such thing as Objective Journalism.” - Hunter S. Thompson.
Mind you, @SnarkyPlatypus, it’s only ONE typo from “analyst” to “analcyst”.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: It’s only several typos from “analysis” to “analcyst”.
It’s like a “Yes Minister” irregular noun. You have opinions, I have analysys. Like @ABCthedrum with ABC staff opinion labelled “analysis”.
@ewaterford @Drag0nista I don’t say that to troll, I think the Myth of Objectivity goes against everything we know about the human brain.
@ewaterford @Drag0nista I think it’s sweet, this idea that Objectivity is a switch that can be turned on when words flow certain ways.
@Drag0nista So if your job is reporter you lose the right to participate in democratic conversation? I’d never want to be a reporter then.
For those who didn’t see it, Qantas QF566 PER-SYD was cancelled last night, so I’m still in Perth. Monday is currently being rearranged.
RT @smperris: You’re up very early for that part of the country. [Yes and no. This is when I usually get up. Plus I must work to AEST.]
So, Monday. I’m on the right continent, just at the wrong end of that continent. Well it’s a start.
Thud.
Thanks @caseyjohnellis @expectproblems @VickiWoodward @DeanBarnett @BernardK @chrisjrn and others for your concerns. #qf566 will ride again.
@franksting Indeed, I shall be, erm, enjoying working from Perth tomorrow courtesy of the flying kangaroo, no thanks to Canberra. #qf566
Friendships are building between those who shared the disruption of #qf566. An experience almost as moving as a hashtag, or twibbon.
Feeling much refreshed after a quick shower. Dealing with quick schedule changes, then I can finally eat. #qf566
Back at the Pan Pacific Hotel. #qf566
In a cab, halfway back to the Perth CBD.
Down to about 100 in the queue for the taxi. #qf566
Of course #batterylife is now an issue. #qf566
The queue is moving very fast though. #qf566
Oh. Approx 300 people ahead of me in the queue for a cab. #qf566
I suspect Twitter is geb0rken, but when I tweet the hotel it’d be divine if someone brought booze ‘cos my cards are maxed until tomorrow.
I miscounted. NOW it’s 5 parties ahead of me. #qf566
About 5 parties ahead of me in the queue. #qf566
@SnarkyPlatypus The Indian Pacific would be lovely. Yes. Does Qantas run the trains?
Half-way. I have a story to tell later of a queue-mate’s disastrous holiday. This part is nothing. #qf566
Past the one-third mark in the queue. Progress. #qf566
The queue has moved maybe 10 or 15%. People are mostly patient, even joking good-humouredly. #qf566
People wanting to do redeye to MEL then up to SYD first thing have been moved to another queue. I’ll give that a miss. #qf566
@SnarkyPlatypus I’ll be here overnight I’d say. Too busy photographing the queue to join it. #qf566
People are re-booking. Those who must urgently be in Sydney or beyond get priority on an overnight flight, I think. We wait quietly. #qf566
Passengers from QF566 queue for further instructions instagr.am/p/J_-MVIiFvN/
Passengers milling in the gate lounge. No signs of anger, just confusion and uncertainty. #qf566
We are disembarking the aircraft. An aircraft that the captain reckons is OK to fly. #qf566
Canberra is full of cunts. #qf566
Just been told we’re loading more fuel for a fast flight, but waiting for Canberra to give us post-curfew landing dispensation. #qf566
Discussing the ins and outs of the Sydney Airport Curfew Act, the post-2300 shoulder period. #qf566
Still sitting in the ground. Cabin crew tell me they could still make up time but I reckon they’re all on drugs. MOAR PRETZELS! #qf566
Engineers currently in hold investigating. #qf566
This is serious. They’re handing out pretzels. #qf566
Flight was scheduled to arrive in Sydney at 2230, just half an hour before curfew. We’re more than 30 mins behind our 1615 AWST departure.
Speculation is that it was something moving in the hold below us, just aft if the wing. I’m in 44G.
Transmitters back on. Our Qantas A330-200 is back in the bay. While taxiing some crew and pax heard a crack / bang sound. Techs investig …
Transmitters off. See you in Sydney in about 4 hours.
Boarding.
All this shit is obviously a lot funnier in your own heads.
So I’m fixing a problem with a shell script while waiting for my flight to start boarding. I need professional medical help.
Exit row. Score!
Shuttling.
Checkout was all too efficient. Awaiting the airport shuttle.
Right. Time to check out and get the shuttle bus to the airport. That will prevent me throwing the desk out of the 11th floor window.
RT @decryption: ah, but does it disrupt the industry? [Yes, and it does so in a way that changes the game in a transformative revolution.]
I also find that the corporate bumph lists the Big Name Companies he’s worked for, but doesn’t say anything about his engineering work.
Preparing for an interview tomorrow, I discover that the vendor’s product “redefines” the categoruy. Just like every other vendor’s product.
@daveyk317 Twitter would have been thinking that they wanted power users using code they controlled, not something that might block ads.
@daveyk317 My pleasure. Just be aware that old TweetDeck is now unmaintained software. No-one’s watching to fix any holes that are found.
@therevmountain I doubt it has immediate impact on me or what I do. I prefer not to fill my life with it. A summary down the track will do.
@therevmountain I’m guessing you’re referring to whatever happened in Canberra. I filtered it out immediate I saw the headless chickens.
Suffused with a sudden, deep sense of cynicism.
@daveyk317 FWIW, I just scanned that TweetDeck .AIR file with Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac andit found nothing. [shrugs]
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 99: Perth, privacy and poor photographs” http://t.co/Us0jh0y2
@daveyk317 Really? I just link to http://t.co/ZQw4xXvm so that’s where you headed? What AV do you use?
@AndySHastings Apart from the Instagram filter, there’s reflections in the window. And a scratched-up lens. So it’s all quality imagery.
@daveyk317 The Adobe AIR-based TweetDeck, the one before Twitter rewrote it? http://t.co/L8ig0iVJ
The Circus and the Swan. instagr.am/p/J—mY2CFk1/
@BernardK Ta for that, but I won’t be going to anything at 0730 when my flight only arrives at 2230. And I’m already over-booked this week.
@BernardK I have no idea what you’re talking about. That’d be a “No”, I guess.
Sun plan: Un-mess my messed-up schedule, I think; 1615 AWST QF566 PER-SYD; 2230 AEST arrive Sydney, Qantas willing; get to hotel, collapse.
Sunday? Oh, I suppose…
Ah! Here’s @sculz_here’s blog post about my #media140 presentation yesterday, with a photo. http://t.co/IOeVaxjm
@cate_carroll Oh good, glad it worked. Now the question is, did it make sense? I went off-script in the first two seconds! @iiNet
The rain stops. Dusk falls over the Swan River. instagr.am/p/J9TTvDiFmF/
I think I shall begin to address Australia’s wine glut.
Well, @JanmaCarmody, the view the other side is a bit better. Viz this photo from yesterday. instagr.am/p/J5_fiViFvE/
@SnarkyPlatypus Yes, I think Zetland aspires to be Perth. Or Perth aspires to be Zetland. Or they both aspire to be East Germany.
Swan River walled off by apartments, as is the custom these days instagr.am/p/J9QaN8CFlW/
@sylmobile Oh no, “S Club 7” is FAR from “ask the children”. I’m not quite sure who you’d best ask tho, apart from @SnarkyPlatypus .
@SnarkyPlatypus There are indeed S Club 7 posters on the poles around Sydney. It is… deeply disturbing.
Stupidity is not a turn-on, people.
I think my decision to have an extremely lazy Saturday is paying off.
Oh. I hadn’t realised that. Now people will talk.
RT @simonpegg: Really looking forward to this - yfrog.com/kip6hsqj [Via @expectproblems, ping @SnarkyPlatypus]
Oh. I should probably have listened to that whole video file before I uploaded it. There’s a couple of gaps in it. I’ll fix that later.
My SMH opinion piece from Feb on the original NRL v Optus case, “Sport has to think outside the box” http://t.co/e7cCpTwS
New blog post: “Talking the Optus TV Now appeal on ABC Local Radio” with full audio http://t.co/oJLMQZOj Also recaps my #media140 stuff.
Sometimes I want to hit Phillip Adams in the face. Just sometimes.
DigitalFamily starts in 2 hours (1000 AWST / 1200 AEST) at Northbridge Piazza http://t.co/onnkBfPA Streamed from http://t.co/Qa4NYdTz
RT @leslienassar: #brunswick #crazy pic.twitter.com/Xu5kECEV [I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL THEM ABOUT THIS AND NOW YOU HAVE SO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!]
See this? THIS? Do you see it? DO YOU SEE IT? THIS IS SATURDAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
OH: “I’m here for the melon. The melon is good.”
There’s now a dozen Scots of a certain age, men and women. Wearing unconvincing paper leis. In an Indian restaurant. Tanked up on cocktails.
OH, woman of a certain age, broad Scots accent: “Oh John! Good to see you! Dion’t mind us, we’re all tanked up on cocktails.”
Indian food is precisely what I need even if, or probably because, I completely garbled my order. Also, a beer.
Oh yeah, I remember this movie.
Oh that’s right. There’s a US Navy fleet carrier in town. Vast numbers of fit young Americans explained
@SnarkyPlatypus They have more taxis in Rwanda.
I have finished talkifying on the wireless. I think I might head back to the hotel. Slowly.
I’m about to talk LIVE FROM PERTH to @domknight about Singtel Optus v NRL Investments. Streamed from abc.net.au/sydney/
Swish TARDIS is swish. ABC Perth. instagr.am/p/J60dqhiFsx/
@HyperBrendan @krcraft I’m afraid I must leave your conversation about “fruit” to go talk on Aunty’s electric wireless.
RT @domknight: Just checked - we’re on the Syd, Mel, Bris, Adel, Darwin, Hobart and Canberra local radio streams. [Thank you. See you soon.]
It’s not at all clear to me which internet audio stream I should be listening to to hear @domknight before I head into the TARDIS.
@krcraft @HyperBrendan I have just been combining the themes of your two tweets into one narrative and I am a little worried.
OH: “His brother was a sicko. A sick, sick man. And he wanted to be a priest! … It’s just all come out now.”
I have been neglecting the plums.
So, @firstdogonmoon, is Graham Bond listed in “1000 People to be Sexually Abused By Before You Die”?
Hang on. My attention should actully be focused on NRL Investments v Singtel Optus [2012] FCAFC 59 http://t.co/O2BBzqUH
Currently occupying my attention: 1. Singtel Optus v NRL Investments [2012] FCA 34 http://t.co/MmeClBBI 2. Something by a Mr Cooper.
RT @TrendsPerth: Stilgherrian, @stilgherrian is now trending in #Perth trendsmap.com/au/perth [Bow before my glorious fashionability, proles!]
@MetaMikeBiggs I think I should be supplied with a travel cloud as a standard mode of transport. [nods] @720perth
MT @GaryPHayes: #media140 Are there any plugins to expose & reveal more of oneself online? :) #kardasshianization [This should be a thing.]
RT @atirere: Perth is not known for cabs [Yeah, I’d forgotten that little fact from my last visit, in 2007. Sigh.]
I’ll be talking NRL v Singtel Optus with @domknight on ABC digital radio nationally at 2010 AEST / 1810 AWST. There must be a streeam too.
No cabs, so I started walking to ABC @720perth. But the timing was too tight. I did the spot by phone, and arrived at the ABC 2 mins later.
Well that was all a bit chaotic..
Tactical error. No cabs. Need to get to ABC @720perth.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: @stilgherrian Your hair’s looking a bit faggy. [I know. I let a faggy fag fag up my hair. He was kinda hot tho.]
RT @BZB: A relaxed post-talk @stilgherrian before he wanders over to @720perth to chat to @Russell_Woolf #media140 lockerz.com/s/204469675
So many tweets for me to look at. I’ll get to them gradually through the evening. #media140
I’m talking about these topics on ABC @720perth at 1620 AWST / 1820 AEST, i.e. in 40 mins. You can listen at abc.net.au/perth #media140
Botherama. The landing page I mentioned is not yet written. “On the weekend”, I said! stilgherrian.com/digitalme/ #media140