Comments on P E O P L E P O I N T S: John Key on You Tube

Interesting issue. I think you mean "somebody's" t...

2007-02-24T18:52:00.000+13:00

Interesting issue. I think you mean "somebody's" though.

Paul.. nice post. Everybody's doing it - in the US...

2007-02-02T15:41:00.000+13:00

Paul.. nice post. Everybody's doing it - in the US John Edwards posted his announcement of running for prez on YouTube, has a Flickr page, a Facebook page and a MySpace page (http://johnedwards.com/). Do they understand the ecology? ... I think they understand it as an essential part of running a contemporary media campiagn regardless of the possibilities of critical mashups, etc. The "kids" aren't as naive as perhaps they think; just because you're on YouTube (et al) doesn't make you politically hip and cool.
I love the comment left by a 21 year old poster on that Key vid ..."the 'printed' reason of "bringing young people to the party" simply isn't going to cut it. I can tell you whats going to bring younger voters in (I'm 21), and thats your policies."

What continues to bother me is the hackneyed political rhetoric of fixing education = fixing society. Ho hum. It's a particularly boring but somehow inevitable tack of almost every political campaign i've ever seen yet more often than not it's overly imposing governmental policies that frequently mess it all up in the first place.

Caught you live when I was up in AKL today Paul, h...

2007-02-01T21:21:00.000+13:00

Caught you live when I was up in AKL today Paul, heading in to meet the eLGAR library consortium of key Auckland libraries - and then to Kristin School on the North Shore.

Both these meetings were instructive. The Librarians see the need to ensure public libraries evolve to be an access point to global content - and they expect this to by mostly digital within a generation. High speed connections to municipal fibre networks and to KAREN are essential to enable this.

The North Shore schools are starting to plan how they will use their new fibre connections, made possible in part by a Broadband Challenge funding win by Vector. The aspects of content democracy and social networking you tried to get get NatRadio to engage with will emerge on an institutional basis - as well as a personal one.

well done Paul. Good comments on the Radio. Was pi...

2007-02-01T16:53:00.000+13:00

well done Paul. Good comments on the Radio. Was picked up down here in Dunedin :)

BTW Paul - you might want to change your reference...

2007-02-01T14:10:00.000+13:00

BTW Paul - you might want to change your reference to KAREN in your side-bar - it currently refers to KARIN (which means the "e" for "education" is not there!) :-)

Hi Paul great post - exactly the sort of questions...

2007-02-01T14:07:00.000+13:00

Hi Paul
great post - exactly the sort of questions we need to be asking! (So impressed I've pointed to your post on my blog at http://blog.core-ed.net/derek)