Has Flash anything to do with the size of Don’s carrot?

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no worries! stuey -its alright, with the exception of programming, I am notoriously crap with computers

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fwog, this good, do yous send us green badge for ours support of yous site, i want mine signed by the pastor hisself, it say, to the famous peter quixote, who introduce green to croos party supports even though he donts be a socialist, i give myself another medal i think, yes, medalliuon of quixote top quixote

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sorry if I was grumpy and patronising clara,
aha yes that is because Firefox does not come with the Flash plug-in installed by default and instead you see the jigsaw piece icon, and you are expected to download and install it yourself, and yes, most institutions will not give people admin rights so that they can’t install software. However these institutions should make the Flash plugin part of their default installations for Firefox. People in this situation should ask their IT services dept to add the Flash plugin to Firefox. cheers

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yeah stuey, clearly I got it wrong but perhaps you can enlighten me.

In internet explorer I can often see graphics (flash I guess) but Firefox gives me little puzzle pieces, on my home pc I can just download the application (oh dear am I using the right lingo?) but on many institutional pc (which includes universities and possibly internet cafes) this is blocked and the puzzle piece stays.

All this modern technology, it really makes a girl think,

it’s amazing I can even turn my computer on let alone code in C (to name but one) …swoon

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TÄ“nÄ? koe, te whÄ?nau! (pÅ?hirihiri)

AuÄ“ stuey, maybe you should have a cup of java and chill out – clara was only asking, and we aren’t all gifted with your deep techno-vibes.

(kia kaha clara)

I want to know how many of the 20% who didn’t vote at all were put off by the combined silliness of the all the parties (and EB) campaigns. And what is with all the deliberate informal votes? (I was tempted to do a DIV myself this time, or not turn up at all)

And who was that “Jones generation” guy working for?

And what exactly is Jim Sutton up to at GATS? Are they really trying to force countries to privatise their water supplies?

Why don’t the media answer these questions?

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[the competition to create the best ‘news’ story is hereby opened]
hmm ..
how about this one

“extreme heat from jet fuel fires causes wtc towers to collapse.”

(nah, just kidding, thats tooo crazy)

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Craig;
always thought you were deeply dyed blue!!
think the con-currance might break our party rules too. Anybody?

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FWIW, I did e-mail the Herald to point out that I’m a financial member of the National Party. I don’t think that would last if I was also a member (grassroots or otherwise) of the Greens, because that is a clear breech of National Party rules.

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or even enBitch, enrage, empower….

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I personally thought the Alliance had the best catchphrase this election campaign: Take The Power Back.

*cue Rage Against The Machine track titled as such plays in the background*

It resonated very strongly with a number of us. After all, that’s what grassroots activity/organisation is all about: devolving power back down to communities.

I would like to see the Greens at the next election adopt a catchphrase along the lines of: Enrich, Enliven, Engage…Empower.

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Logix: I was browsing that last night. Certainly some interesting thoughts on the need for interaction and feedback for the marketplace to work properly – which the net provides but TV does not.

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A relevant speech given by Al Gore to Media Conference. Pertinent as it explains the power of TV and why “”If it’s not on television, it doesn’t exist.” and goes further to discuss the “mearketplace of ideas”, and the role of, and limitations of the internet. Quite long, but I found it worth the read:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/06/D8D2IU703.html

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Hi Mum!
National had the dominant advertising campaign.
I am sure money wins advertising campaigns (cf MMP referendum),
but the error was focussing on the converted. It gave them the all important momentum but I suspect it did not change many minds.
The tax/cuts etc billboards did much to define the campaign as a contest between two parties, to Nats advantage..
The tv puppet show was also brilliant and no other party matched it.
The strategy to cosy up to United Future and the longer term strategy of gobbling up ACT probably cost them the election.
I think the racist dogwhistle probably firmed a lot of waverers to vote against National. It was never a winner with the majority. It was a very dumb strategy, although no doubt part of the original momentum that was needed.
Labour kicked for touch and I guess it worked okay. The loans interest move probably insured their lead but it also hurt their only reliable ally. (Hints of the Nat/ACT syndrome).
Maori Party especially in Auckland, developed a formidable grassroots team (or modified existing networks)to get new voters out, and that is a significant change in our election landscape.
Sadly the Greens benefit in the frustrated Maori at last election is probably gone forever.
Winston managed to keep a place in the headlines with a new handful of catch phrases and well planned throw away lines.
I have to say Greens, who seem so media savvy between elections, fail every time to get together a decent billboard and slogan campaign. I think it has to be a personality factor of some kind.

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idiot,

hush! that’s secret!

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Stuey, maybe you should also have a word to Kevin Taylor and explain what an “internet site” is compared to a “blog”.

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So the Herald’s trying to sell papers by cooking up non-existent stories. What’s new?

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so stuey outs himself…

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with all due respect Clara, if you don’t understand anything about web design don’t comment on it.

Or if you have an issue with a website, try to describe from the users perspective what actually went wrong with it, rather than making up a theory to explain the results – your theory only exposes how little you know about web technology.

p.s. the Gone by Lunchtime site is done in Flash. According to Macromedia/NPD, 97% of people can view Flash content so it is a great choice for animated web content, unlike say, the windows media player only content on http://www.keepleftnz.org which can only be seen by 83% of people.

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Sheesh, don’t reporters bother tocheck their facts anymore? A call to the Green’s parliamentary media office would have told Granny Herald the purpose of Frogblog.
Frogblog commentators are hardly rank and file Greens..and what that comment about “a party where dissent is usually muted” ? Is the reporter a Green party member to know this? Or is he talking out of his hat?
Anyhow,to your request for campaign analysis:
Best Slogan designed to alienate the most voters at once: ‘mainstream’ goes to the National party.
Best campaign to scare people into not voting for your party: the national party
Best cultural revisit to the 1960s: the National party
Best attempt to get the electorate to eat stale whitebread: National.
Best failure to convince of any vision: Labour

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