Clare Curran continues to show us why she is the Queen of New Zealand Political Social Media, by focusing ont he things that matter…like international kissing day:
Cactus Kate gave her something to forget that tweet though:
Clare Curran, once again proving that Twitter is never good news for politicians.
For some reason I missed this but Jane Clifton has some good advice for politicians, and in particular labour politicians addicted to social media:
STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD: MPs’ command of the social media is a fine thing – up to a point. Alas, too many have made themselves look uncharacteristically boorish and petty through ill-considered cyber-blurts. Labour’s usually good-natured Darien Fenton slagged the much-loved Sir Peter Leitch for being too friendly with the evil Tories and even suggested a boycott of his butcher shops. It’s a tragically short hop from Twitter to twit, but the lure of instant gratification is dangerously over-stimulating for most MPs.
Another victim was Trevor Mallard, goaded into a bike race by right-wing blogger Cameron Slater. Mallard won comfortably, but as Slater cheerfully characterises such encounters, the trouble with wrestling with pigs is that you get dirty, while the pigs absolutely love it. Repeat to self before posting: These golden words will be public and permanent. Do I really want history to record that I called someone a weasily little scrote?
This pig had fun last year.
From @LOLGOP
There was an article in the NZ Herald about candidates seeking information from the Electoral Commission about what was allowed and what wasn’t on hoardings, advertisements and campaign materials. This is to be commended that candidates are actually seeking to comply with the law.
This of course is in stark contrast with the Labour which constantly broke electoral law and was repeatedly referred to the Police for investigation for breaches.
Right at the bottom of the article though was this interesting paragraph:
And handing out copies of the Hollow Men book at Wellington Railway Station was ruled to be “treating” – giving gifts to influence voters.
Interesting, “treating” is a corrupt practice. Were those people referred to the Police? If not why not?
Now if handing out books is a corrupt practice what would handing out free DVD’s of the Hollow Men movie be?
ON THURSDAY, Labour MP Trevor Mallard was hobbling around the press gallery on crutches dishing out free copies of the DVD The Hollow Men, based on the book of the same name by activist Nicky Hager.
Labour ordered 100 copies of the DVD on news of Dr Brash’s coup. Unsurprisingly, it seems to be almost more excited by Dr Brash’s second coming than even the ACT board or membership.
You might say that Mallard was only handing them out to the press gallery, but you’d be wrong:
Labour MP Trevor Mallard gave copies to the Parliamentary Press Gallery and other journalists who wanted a copy. More than 100 had been given.
His local electorate committee was paying for them and they were getting a discount price. The spending would not come out of election spending as it was outside the three month campaign period but Mr Mallard said he would check that.
I wonder if he did check? Because that little paragraph in the Herald article would suggest he did. But it looks like the advice was ignored because more than a 100 DVDs were given out. Twitter provides some of the evidence of Mallard’s “treating”.
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and on Trevor’s Facebook wall…
Well, the evidence appears to be all there. I wonder if the Electoral Commission would entertain investigating?
Interesting article at the tactics of Sony Music Entertainment who appear to be making money off unsigned artists by claiming copyright breaches through Youtube.
So, in October we uploaded a video for a track called Con Amor Siempre. It gained a modest number of views and we were fairly happy, until one day we logged into our account and were told our video had been blocked in Germany because the video contained content owned by an entity called SME.
SME stands for Sony Music Entertainment and the content ID system had mistakenly identified our track as been owned or partially owned by them. Not only was the video blocked in Germany, but an advert had been displayed on our video’s YouTube page and an iTunes link below for an artist and track that had nothing to do with our music.
REad the rest of the post to see what these artists had to go through to remove the illegal claim from SME. it was only major embarrassment through Twitter, Blog posts and Facebook that shamed SME into relinquishing their false claim. I do wonder though how much money they made off the false claim.
Vado a bordo, cazzo is what the Captain of the crippled cruise liner Costa Concordia told…in english that means ”Get back on board, for f**k’s sake!”.
It has come to symbolise the entire disaster – the furious command barked down a phone line by a Coast Guard official to the captain of the Costa Concordia to get back on the ship and take command of the mass evacuation.
“Get back on board, for —-’s sake,” screamed the official, Gregorio De Falco – a phrase that has now gone viral among Italians on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.
The original Italian – “Vado a bordo, cazzo” – has even been printed on T-shirts, after millions of Italians listened to the audio recordings of the increasingly frantic entreaties given by Mr De Falco to the captain as the ship ran aground on the island of Giglio on Friday night. The apparently negligent and irresponsible behaviour of Capt Francesco Schettino – who is said to have sailed so close to the island in order to give a ‘salute’ to an old friend and as a favour for a member of his crew – has prompted intense soul-searching in Italy.
The top twitter trend in Italy is now #vadaabordocazzo.
from Malcolm Harbrow
Robyn Malcolm is going to get her kit off in a photo-shoot.
Kiwi screen queen Robyn Malcolm has moved on from Outrageous Fortune to a new outrageous and naked photo shoot.
The 46-year-old Ashburton-raised actress – who in 2010 was crowned the sexiest woman in New Zealand television in the annual TV Guide awards – has revealed on her official Twitter and Facebook accounts that she has stripped off for an intimate modelling session.
It’s understood the photos will be used in a soon-to-be-revealed campaign for one of her chosen charities.
On Tuesday, the former Outrageous Fortune star wrote on her Facebook page: ”Nude shoot surprisingly stress free … maybe clothing is indeed the problem.”
She ain’t no Lucy Lawless that is for sure.
But Outrageous Fortune was an outrageous rip off, costing the New Zealand taxpayer $48m. As the star of the show Robyn Malcolm took a sizable part of this subsidy for shlock. So she may post naked for charity but will she pay us our money back now she has a huge profile based on taxpayer funding. Or will we never get a return from Outrageous Fortune?
UK Labour is experiencing the same implosion that is going on here. Basically the left is eating their own and it is extremely funny to watch.
I have blogged about Dan Hodges before and his byline:
Dan Hodges is a Blairite cuckoo in the Miliband nest. He has worked for the Labour Party, the GMB trade union and managed numerous independent political campaigns. He writes about Labour with tribal loyalty and without reservation.
Today he explains why everyone is laughing at the left:
There have been times in Ed Miliband’s leadership when he’s been ignored. That’s not unusual for a new leader of a party consigned to the wilderness of opposition. There have also been times when people have disagreed with him. Like when he’s claimed we should try to understand the rioters or listen to the St Paul’s protestors, or said just about anything on the economy. But now people are openly laughing at him. And for any politician, that is the most dangerous moment of all.
At least, that’s what I thought until I was rudely awoken by my humorous convulsions. And then, at that moment, the truth dawned. People aren’t laughing at Ed Miliband. They’re laughing at all of us. The entire British Left has ceased to become a political movement. We are now a giant comedy sketch. A strange, surreal montage of Monty Python, Citizen Smith and the Thick of It.
On Wednesday I followed a Twitter debate between best-selling Left-wing author Owen Jones, and Sunny Hundal, editor of Liberal Conspiracy, recently voted the most influential Left-wing website in the country. They were debating the deficit, the cuts and Labour’s approach. Hundal’s advice, and I am not making this up, was that the Left should say nothing about them. Coming up with a credible line was just too hard. So we should not talk about the cuts at all. Labour should shift the debate to jobs, the NHS, fly fishing – anything. But a bit like Basil Fawlty, under no account must we mention the cuts.
Snigger. There are some harsh lessons there in those three short paragraphs that Labour in New Zealand and indeed other leftwing organisation need to understand. They won’t though and because they won’t we will keep on laughing at them….like the Maritime Union.
via Peter FitzSimons
All Black coach Graham Henry on the latest revolution in social media: “I had to find out what bloody Twitter was. I thought it was a new guy playing five-eighth for England.”
Note that when he did find out he banned his players from using it during the World Cup.
Pretty sound counsel for Trevor Mallard, don’t you think?
