stephen blyth’s blog

I’ve been searching around for a Wilco bootleg. After seeing the band play at the Opera House on Easter Monday, there’s something about the energy and intensity of the concert I’d like to recapture.
Already I’ve heard a couple of their live recordings as Wilco are prolific sharers and have embraced the Internet.
Aside for the […]

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A few weeks ago, Josh Campbell posted a short video to You Tube showing some of the dangers of cycling to work, called Biking in Christchurch. (Warning: content may offend!!)
It’s not churlish, buffoonery, like the horrible tv reality programmes. But deadly serious. The 2 minute 57 second video records many near misses. It’s enough […]

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Even before George Monbiot started his interview with Sean Plunket as part of the 2008 Readers and Writers week, the British journalist and climate activist had made a big statement.
Monbiot declined to travel to Aotearoa to speak. Instead, he agreed to participate only by a video link. This decision was based on his conviction that […]

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Just as the International Arts Festival was finishing, I finally made it down to the Festival Club at Frank Kitts Park.
It was a pretty early start, so the bar was closed. Instead the assembled punters got breakfast.
The performance was speedy. Just three acts. The plot: launch a new version of the New Zealand government […]

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I was going to start this post by making a note of how many blogs there out there in the ether, and finish with an updated figure.
Guess what? There are no accurate figures for the number of blogs being published, and certainly no data on how up-to-date they are nor the quality of content.
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Monday night marked a significant milestone for the Wellington e-rider IT service. After all the planning, discussion, highs and lows, we held a big celebration.
As the banner and invite said, “We’re up and rolling”.
About 50 odd people turned up to help us celebrate at Internet NZ’s boardroom. There was a great buzz, and […]

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In April and May I’m leading a couple of workshops at conferences for people using ICT in the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector.
The topics are:
“Online project management tools: making choices and making it happen”
To run projects efficiently you need to keep track of minutes, tasks, share ideas and even co-produce documents. There are lots […]

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Everyday this week I’ve bumped into references to environmental websites. I can’t help wondering if this is meant to mean something.
I chortled when I saw the reference to Unscrew America. I imagined a website all about people challenging such things as climate change denial, the Iraq war, etc. The zany, psychedelic website is actually […]

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