Posts by Che Tibby
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it's nice with big writing and a seal kind of thing on it .
so you did some kind of marine biology degree then?
There were bikini pictures?
</hadyn outs himself as a non-kiwiblog reader> that and/or pictures of blonde women at conferences. none of which i'm impartial to </het>
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heh. habermas would be comfortable with the idea of multiple, overlapping public spheres, one for here, one for kiwiblog. something like the nzh wouldn't qualify however, you need a discursive structure and a newspaper is just a distributive mechanism masquarading as discourse.
but, if we were having this conversation on kiwiblog, i would actually be saying, "look! bikini picture! whoaaaaar". but that's ok, because there are no girls in the room to moderate my randyness.
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actually... speaking of boyd's work, i'd be interested to know the demographic breakdown of pa system and kiwiblog readers, and especially commenters.
i've a sneaking suspicion that educational levels and gender are well skewed over at kiwiblog, and *slightly* more even here.
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evidence (that I don't have a link for, or even the document) suggests that they like to use Bebo.
you could put that down to "chain migration" onto an application. much like danah boyd's theory on hi/lo educational splits between facebook/myspace.
i.e. the avant garde in a social group establishes a preference for an application (for whatever reason), and it becomes the norm within that social cluster.
</researcher che>
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In fact overall, internet users socialised with friends and family more often than non-users.
doesn't surprise me. anecdotal stuff i've gleaned from blogs suggests that people only use facebook to stay in touch with people (or play scrabulous).
tweet gives me a bigger insight into people's ways of thinking than say, sinking booze with them. if you know what i mean.
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A few years back Dingos were shot for banding together and attacking kids on one of the ozzie islands.
it's better than that, they we harrassing tourists (afaik). what was interesting was that suddenly there was a slough of aussie media commentators saying, "you know i always believed that it could happen".
freaking hypocrites.
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llew said:
Um... look at the ears.
what, you've never seen a depressed dingo?
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yup. the central desert is an amazing place.
my uluru experience was to get to the rock early to watch the sunrise from a convenient spot (one well away from the bus-loads of tourists). we then visited the tourist centre nearby and collected stories about the place.
then, and only then, we walked around the rock, not up onto it.
the aboriginal people there used to live under it's eves, and burn the surrounding spinafex to draw the roos out to the new growth. if you look closely you can see all the stories of their history writ-large on the walls of the rock. an i mean *large*, some of the myth stories you can see on the walls are up to 50-60m high.
an amazing place.
most tourists just pour off the bus, climb the rock, take some snaps, then get back on the bus to head to yulara (the local resort, which is like a space station of english lawns out in that incredible desert).
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thx everyone. glad to see i didn't overcook this one.
i'll admit it's been a tough week.
i don't think we need to actually be helpless. but the despair can be pronounced. anyone working in this field must feel like they're digging sand.
the real mission is to bring the lives these people lead into a healing limelight that doesn't patronise or belittle them. which i'm not sure i could ever do without feeling like an exploiter.
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the Aussie part (no dingos)
the zoo should just put some golden labradors in a big pen.
to be honest, i have trouble telling the two apart unless the labrador has gone to fat.