A busy week
Has been a busy few days. In the last week or so I have:
- Spoken to the Kapiti Rotary Club
- Done a TV3 Sunrise interview
- Done an interview for One News
- Also a longer interview for TVNZ7 News at 8
- Been on Agenda
- Spoke to a 20/20 Comms Trust/UNESCO seminar on the impact of Identity and Location Services
- Interviews on Newstalk ZB and Radio Live
Agenda went well I thought. Danyl made an interesting comment:
There was a weird bolsheviks v mensheviks vibe to the Rodney Hide appearance on Agenda this morning. The two ‘commentators’ were National activist David Farrar and media village idiot Deborah Hill-Cone, both of whom are sympathetic to ACT ideology (if not the party itself). They grilled Hide aggressively over his failure to grow the party – much more so than any independent or left-wing analysts would have done.
When I am in roles like this, I think I probably do push harder those I am more naturally in agreement with. I remember also pushing Gerry Brownlee when he appeared quite hard on the Brian Connell issue.
Danyl also notes:
And the fix appears to be in in regards to the Agenda book club, with the book on Jim Bolger being won by former Bolger staffer and Agenda commentator David Farrar! Highly suspicious!
Heh the prize was for knowing the nickname of the Air Force plane Bolger used to fly on – Spud One of course!
The seminar yesterday at Vic (Pipitea) was fascinating – both in terms of content and the technology involved. We were luckly to have the Government’s overall CIO speaking and the proposed online identity verification service sounds just nifty.
The seminar was connected by access grid to four other sites. Vic’s Kelburn campus and also Otago, Canteerbury and Auckland Universities.
This is it in action. The video linkup was excellent and good quality. Sadly the audio failed for us and all the other campuses could hear us (which was okay as the speakers were in Wellington) but we could not hear them. We coped with a mixture of sign language and e-mails.
My contribution was on the benefits, risk and issues around the combining of identity with location (GPS) services. I am hugely keen on the benefits but there are some potentially nasty aspects which will post challenges.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
>>When I am in roles like this, I think I probably do push harder those I am more naturally in agreement with. I remember also pushing Gerry Brownlee when he appeared quite hard on the Brian Connell issue.
This is certainly not the case with the other side though
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
saw agenda for the first time last weekend. wasnt bad! (no sky at the beach house)
David – do ya get paid for any of this?
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Did you make any representations about getting TVNZ7 on Sky?
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
For what it is worth I thought Rodney gave some good answers and I do hope Act can get enough MP’s into parliament this year. It would be a shame to see them throw the towel in as they seem to have more clues then the lunatic socialists and their leigons of brain dead arselickers and bludgers who are stuck on Dear Leaders tit.
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
No no payment at all and it is an issue. I am spending too much time on free stuff.
GPT – yes I did, and some of their staff agreed with me.
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I’m sitting about a meter to the right of the photo.
Almost famous on Kiwiblog!
[DPF: Oh now the name clicks!]
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:21 pm
a lot of time on free stuff.. although you are building the David Farrar “brand” heh