stephen blyth’s blog

When I was outside unloading materials to expand our vege garden on what used to be our front lawn, Richard Scott from National Radio’s This way up show was talking about it.
On Saturday’s show Richard ran an excerpt about a group of gardeners who are converting lawns to gardens. Edible Estates “is an ongoing series [...]

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I had a disasterous lunchtime session yesterday when I attempted to demonstrate the potential of web 2.0. I could rant and rave about how unfair the world is technology is not foolproof, or perhaps mull on a lesson or two.
My personal guided tour was going to take in social networking, wikis, blogging, social bookmarking, and [...]

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When I was away sunning myself in Arthurs Pass at the weekend, an unofficial e.govt participatory workshop was held in Wellington. Run on self-organising principles, ala open space technology, about 100 people attended to talk about things important to them in the e-government field. Called a barcamp, the event was similar to other (un)conferences (sic) [...]

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Before Naomi Klein’s new book is available on the shelves here in Aotearoa I’ve managed to learn quite a bit about the central thesis. Klein, well remembered as author of No Logo - a searing analysis of corporate advertising - and her reporting from the frontline at numerous WTO protests, now turns her attention to [...]

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For quite a while we’ve wanted to get an up-to-date snapshot pressures, concerns, and joys faced by fathers. Mothers tend to be very vocal and find the time to get on to The Couch, but poll results suggeted the dads were not so forthcoming.
So, on father’s day we launched a poll asking for replies just [...]

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