stephen blyth’s blog

Not only do the prestigious international Webby Awards have a category on activism but it is first on the list. It’s a reassuring sign that one of the core principles of the Internet - promoting free speech and citizen participation - has a strong heartbeat.
The winner of the 2004 Activism category is Tolerance.org, a website […]

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I was alerted to the existence of Helen Clark’s weblog in Spinach 7 one of my favourite Australian magazines. The writer of the article on political weblogs - from whence the hideous ‘plog’ comes from - favourably compared the effort of our very own Prime Minister’s against those of Mark Latham and Johnny Howard. “Techno-savvy” […]

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The above title, reproduced from a recent issue of The Wellingtonian community newspaper, does not refer to salacious celebrity gossip, but to news available on the Kilbirnie Lyball Bay Rongotai Progressive Association website.
Sewage, roading, cycle lanes, the retail precint, water and other local issues are the key concern of the Association. And it is these […]

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I was pleasantly surprised at the number of people that turned up on a wintry Thursday to attend the launch of the RMAlink website. The 25 people assembled were introduced to a powerful online resource that has been developed by ECO, New Zealand’s environmental umbrella group.
The website is designed to make it easy for people […]

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