A social media primer for progressive candidates
Labour Party General Secretary Andrew Kirton recently sent out a message to Labour Candidates which of itself was a lesson on all things social media …
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The inauguration of Trump: Jonathan Pie reacts
Jonathan Pie gets angry at Trump’s treatment of the media.
Wikileaks unravels
In the space of a day Wikileaks managed to complain about another entity leaking information, threaten to dox pretty well every reporter, delete the tweet and then sound like Donald Trump.
A little humour
Post truth politics – White man behind a desk
Robbie from WBMAD analyses the current trend to make politics a truth free phenomenon, offers funny yet incisive comments on the effect of social media on politics and finishes with videos of cats.
Boris Johnson’s HQ as the EU referendum results came in …
Rumoured to be satire …
The humour and wit of Joanne Hayes
Another National Backbencher has shown her prowess with social media.
Jonathan Pie has election anger
Jonathan Pie rails against media attempts to attack Jeremy Corbyn and Labour over the recent local body election results.
What has the ECHR ever done for the British?
Well nothing apart from …
Imperator Fish: John needs this too
Imperator Fish argues for a change in the New Zealand flag, sort of.
Victoria University Chancellor Neville Jordan spits the dummy
The spoof article appeared in the 21 February issue of Victoria University’s Salient – and poor ole Sir Neville couldn’t handle the jandle so lost the plot and spat the dummy.
Twerking For Daddy
As if the second round of booing in a week wasn’t bad enough, John Key got royally trolled by a young BGO attendee on Instagram. Then the Herald bizarrely decided her selfie of the PM with his hand tantalisingly close to her hair was a genuine BGO good news story. But wait! There’s more!!!
Herald Bingo
Can be used either as a bingo card or as a drinking game.
The official New Zealand COP21 negotiating guide
The Youth Delegation at COP 21 has secured a copy of the Government’s negotiation guide and has published it …
Allahu Quackbar!
4chan bombs Isis. Now that’s the way to hurt them!
Social media disasters – Paula Bennett tweets
The first of what may be an ongoing series of posts where social media interaction by Politicians ends in disaster.
MPs are harmful to digital communications
As anticipated, what is the first complaint at this site under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015? Not from a kid cyber-bullied by the classmates. But by an adult trying to stifle legitimate criticism and analysis of what they wrote and distributed digitally. And they didn’t read what they were required to do under the act.
The left like Red Peak flag coz Nazis
According to Cameron Slater the left support the Red Peak flag coz the Nazis used to brand political prisoners with a red triangle that looks like an upside down red flag.
John Oliver on New Zealand’s new flag
John Oliver offers some advice on our quest for a new flag.
Caption contest
Keep it seemly …
White Man Behind A Desk: Social Bonds
White Man Behind A Desk on the death of government, social bonds, and more. Perfect for a Friday!
Angry Andy, Creepy Key
Today’s social media lolz. There’s a difference between obvious attempts to astroturf a nickname and ones that have gone viral naturally.
The unusual case of the disappearing blog
Giovanni Tiso has discovered that Cactus Kate’s blog is slowly disappearing from the Internet.
PM’s social media advisor lashes out on Twitter
PM’s staff threatening people on Twitter. Such a good look.
#milifandom! Labour are going to win the UK Election. Fact!
Ed Miliband is dominating social media in the UK on the eve of the election. #milifandom is the meme of the day!
UPDATE: Exit Poll suggests Tory win, Lib Dem’s smashed. SNP dominate in Scotland, Greens may win 2 seats. UKIP stuffed, Farage to lose in his seat. Labour still a possibility to govern.
UPDATE 2: Rumours that both Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg will resign in the morning. George Galloway loses his seat, UKIP have flopped and it appears Nigel Farage will not be an MP. However, Tory win not yet confirmed.
Caption Competition
Keep it seemly!
Jordan Williams words & Nat sexism
Helen Kelly tweeted an image of an extract from Dirty Politics, highlighting some very nasty misogynistic writing by Slater and Jordan William. Williams replied.
GCSB, privacy & Facebook messaging
How private are communications on social media platforms such as Facebook? It is claimed that the GCSB law’s definition of “privacy” leaves a loophole for warrantless surveillance of messaging by Kiwis on platforms like Facebook.
Caption contest
You know the rules …
The desperation of the National’s sockpuppets
National Party pollster David Farrar must be seeing some numbers he really doesn’t like because he is claiming that David Cunliffe photoshopped himself into a rally that he was really at! Yeah right – a doyen of the local net governing body failed to use google before making a complete dick of himself on the net. I expect we will see a lot more of National’s paid for bloggers acting like fools heading into this election because National only being good at putting us heavily into debt (again!) rather limits the good news they can write.
How to replace Tony Abbott with cats
Tired of seeing Tony Abbott’s mug in web pages on Australian politics? Well help may be just around the corner …
Requiem for a doofus
Well, Slater’s reverse midas touch has struck again. It’s remarkable that Slater should be able to take a 125-year old publication and kill it in 6 months, especially when Judith Collins says he’s better than the mainstream media. Or, perhaps, he had been so successful in turning Truth into the new media dreadnought that its jobs was done. Ah well, lets remember how it began.
The gift that keeps on giving
First Collins fails the replicant test. Now Scott catches her openly plotting against her leader…