TriNetre - Archive for October 06, 2003
(no longer updated)
October 06, 2003
Kofi Annan - "cheeky darkie"
[Society]
@ 04:14 PM
"That Kofi Annan, I've got to say to you, has been a very cheeky darkie overnight," Mr Holmes said.
"He's been a very cheeky darkie. It's all very well giving a darkie that secretary-general job but we'll only take so much. I'm sorry, we will only take so much.
"We're not going to be told how to live our lives by a Ghanaian."
- Paul Holmes, one of New Zealand's highest-profile and highest paid broadcasters
Amazingly, he follows with this later on - "I think regret would be an understatement. I'm sick in my guts about it, actually," he was quoted as saying by the New Zealand Herald, saying he "unreservedly withdrew" the comments. What a kind, enlightened soul. I wonder why he has not been fired so far.
Latest Andrew Orlowski piece
[Software]
@ 03:41 PM
I have always read with more than passing interest, the posts by Andrew Orlowski at The Register. His work, though controversial and rude at times, always brings with it the reality check sorely missing in the hyped up technology of weblogs. His latest post uses the survey results of research company Perseus that identified that around a million of the 2.7 million weblogs surveyed had been abandoned after a day, and 132,000 would-be webloggers gave up after a year.
Meanwhile, in the parallel universe constructed by weblog tools vendors, junketeers, and unemployed HTML coders (who desperately hope that the dotcom tide will roll back in), momentous and world-shaping decisions are being made! For weblog software vendors, no less than a "second superpower" is being created.
Let's pan over to Harvard University, where, this weekend, a 'Second Superpower' presidential candidate (and erstwhile weblog tools vendor) Dave Winer is holding a fundraising Meet-Up, charging everyday webloggers $500 a head to attend.
Let's pan over to Harvard University, where, this weekend, a 'Second Superpower' presidential candidate (and erstwhile weblog tools vendor) Dave Winer is holding a fundraising Meet-Up, charging everyday webloggers $500 a head to attend.
While I do not belive that blogging is a passing trend, I believe that it has been over hyped and its power overestimated. As for my take on Dave Winer and his weblog, his/its absence on my blogroll should clarify the same.
