by frog
Campbell Live gave a big plug tonight to this new blog/portal The Wire and its daddy, Slam X Hype. The first sign of middle age is when you notice that not a single blogger on the new site is older than you are, and you’re not that old. (really) A few random reads of posts and it doesn’t make a big impression, but that is an unfair first impression, especially for a blog. It takes time for anyone to find their voice in this medium, and hell, it only launched today!
So I will be keeping a keen amphibian eye on the site to see who rises to the top as cream, who gets by and who gets replaced. I suppose I am just jealous that I wasn’t considered hip enough to get the call. Perhaps it’s my use of words like hip and that age thing again? 
Maybe they want someone to keep tabs on all the political blogs and make some unbiased comment? (cue the Tui advert)
I wish them the best of luck and look forward to hearing some fresh new voices out here…
Published in Media | Society & Culture by frog on Wed, May 7th, 2008
Tags: Frog, frogblog, green, new zealand, party, portal, slam x hype, the wire
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
***www.NewScientist.com – NEWSFLASH***
Decades after most countries stopped using the insecticide DDT, frozen stores of the chemical are now dripping out of melting Antarctic glaciers – and into penguins.
Read the full story here:
http://email.newscientist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eBVeX0MXBVN0mli0E1OB0EW
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that’s quite ‘touching’ frog..
(or are you just b*tt-kissing campbell..?..)
have you turned over a new lily-pad..?
(btw..26 stories today on whoar..three years ‘on-air’..
16,198 stories..and counting..
but hey..!..eh..?..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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i’d read your stories if you ripped out your ‘full stop’ key phil
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and then in the following story you link to ‘no minister’..
perhaps you’d have to go to the national front to find a more racist/sexist/everything-ist/pile of vomit site in new zealand..
but hey..!..eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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Maybe.
jh, other chemicals too! jeez
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Police promise to be tougher on violent crime
by IAN STEWARD – The Press | Thursday, 08 May 2008
Christchurch police signalled a radical New York-style “zero tolerance” policy at a public meeting to address increasing violent crime in the city last night.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4515072a6009.html
This is just the Stuff the Greens are opposed to thanks to the Charter Principle of Non Violence. Keith must speak out!
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Quick…Make Dave Cliff commissioner NOW
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# jh Says:
May 8th, 2008 at 9:17 am
> This is just the Stuff the Greens are opposed to thanks to the Charter Principle of Non Violence. Keith must speak out!
How is the ‘broken windows’ policing approach contrary to the principle of non-violence?
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Meanwhile the UK has re classified Cannabis as a class B drug….good for them.
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kahikatea Says:
May 8th, 2008 at 9:47 am
How is the ‘broken windows’ policing approach contrary to the principle of non-violence?
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Ask Keith.
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The Greens are opposed to Big Brother and this policy involves more surviellence.
The Greens are on an outlier position when it comes to civil liberties and along with civil libertarians will be breathing down the neck of any actions by the state. What’s more there is a tendency to “blame the system” for errant behaviour, especially for people who “don’t see the good side of life”… Sue Bradford.
The Green Charter Principles are given broad scope of interpretation.
ps I’m a pragmatist, believing in the carrot and the stick and an evolutionary basis of behaviour.
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I forgot about this:
# ben (194) Says:
May 8th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Steve Levitt (Freakonomics) has researched why crime in NYC fell in the 1990s, and IIRC he concluded it had little or nothing to do with the Broken Windows policy and everything to do with Rowe vs. Wade in 1973 – about 18 years before crime in NYC and across America began its steep decline.
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So Sue’s ferals have a bit to do with it perhaps…..?
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