Archive | June, 2009

Letters in The Age

I’m always pleasantly surprised when one of my letters gets in The Age, as it did the other day without me knowing. Clearly I don’t support league tables for schools.

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Updated to WordPress 2.8

Just a quick note – I’ve updated to WordPress 2.8 and added a Twitter plugin to automatically notify Twitter of new posts. Still struggling with a few theme compatibility issues.

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A decade of cooling?

Steven Fielding of Family First fame was on Insiders this week stating that he had been presented with evidence in Washington that the globe had been cooling over the last few years. This is one of the common tropes that the Andrew Bolts and other climate change denialists use to argue that there is no [...]

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Online social activism and Twitter

A large part of my job is online communications: blogs, social networking, and new fads like Twitter. A big challenge is how to use these tools in a meaningful way to support the campaigning and organising activities of the union. How can we engage our members and supporters using the social networking tools they are [...]

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Labor must assert its economic credentials

The recent spate of reporting of polls demonstrates that Labor must continue to assert its strong nation building narrative and economic credentials. Labor and Kevin Rudd correctly judged the public’s mood by decrying the excesses of extreme capitalism and neoliberalism, and forging a renewed social-democratic path. Despite the baying of the press gallery and conservative [...]

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