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Re: Retreat View Circle, Sanford, FL - Travel Advisor, Hotel Reviews, Restaurants, Tourism, Safety - Ghetto Tracker

djackmanson — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 06:48:14 -0000

There are stories about the local Zimmerman family, who get away with killing black kids. TAKE CARE ALL PoC.

Re: Occupy Brisbane Park Tour

djackmanson — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:16:33 -0000

"That is of course an isolated incident, but it still raises the question, how can they try to act as role models when they let things like that happen within their group?"

I'm not on site, but I think the Occupiers understand that this issue is crucial. They may yet learn to control the space democratically, and that would be a big achievement in itself.

David Jackmanson - Occupy Brisbane web helper (but my personal opinion only)

Re: left flank: Australia’s Islamophobes & right-wing ideologues praised in Breivik’s manifesto

djackmanson — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:38:57 -0000

There's a good discussion at Kasama about Breivik's motivations. Part of the original article reads:

"He doesn’t use fascist imagery, nor does he use any source commonly identified with the far-right. His sources are pedestrian conservative and small business capitalist. He even used the infamous The Economist “Eurabia” cover.

This is him telling us: I am not a facist. I am normal. I am you. I have brown friends. I have gay friends. I defended them from bullies. But I am mad as hell, and I can’t take it anymore.

He is the crisis of the neo-liberal State, and its imperialist project, in its reactionary terrorist expression. He is the voice of the white male who finds himself a minority, and losing not just the percieved privileges of gender and race, but the very real privileges of being in the center of an imperial world."

However I think the crucial point is what you mentioned in a previous post; not who Breivik approved of, but what the Right's response will be. If it is in fact talk of "legitimate grievances taken too far by one madman" then I agree that needs to be opposed with not only condemnation, but the presentation of at least an opposing vision.

An important point about this issue was well made in this article in Shift Magazine, discussing a conservative "Blue Labour" faction in the UK a month ago, before the terrorist attacks in Norway.

"The danger is not that the Labour Party might morph into a quasi far-right party under the influence of Blue Labour, but that the Blue Labour narrative will poison mainstream political discourse (more than it is already) and help to create the sort of conditions in which very right wing parties and movements can flourish."

Re: http://blog.themerchgirl.net/post/518246673

djackmanson — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:05:58 -0000

I'm quite pleased with the course I'm doing at JSchool right now, which is a very small private institution. We're getting a basic grounding in Greek and Roman history to teach us the origins of democracy (to help with general knowledge for political reporting), intense training in Teeline shorthand, lots of in-class exercises where we have to turn information into stories or intro paragraphs, and we have LOTS of assignments - each week we usually have to turn out 2-4 stories.

In the few weeks I've been doing the course we've been to a Brisbane City Council meeting, the Queensland Art Gallery, to the Jayant Patel trial, an optional trip to "The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco", and we've heard an expert on local government talk and watched Rats in the Ranks. We've had to write a story on each of these things, and there's a lot of discussion about both ethics, and what actually is likely to happen in a newsroom when we try to stand on those ethics.

My fellow students certainly seem more well-informed than the ones talked about in the article above, too.

I agree that you can't teach a love of writing, but I think I'm a pretty good, clear writer, and I've been shown a lot of things about the form of journalistic writing that's going to make me better at that.

I was sick the day the class went to see Jennifer Hawkins in a fashion parade, but I saw the story that one of the female students wrote following up on Hawkins' comments about "plus-sized" models. On her own initiative, that student chased up quotes from the agency which represents the "plus-sized" models and someone from an association dealing with eating disorders, and used those in her story. She was worried she would get in trouble for not having written the story that was expected, but she was praised for showing initiative.

We're concentrating on newspaper reporting, so blogs, twitter etc aren't really covered. However a blog to publish out stories on is being planned. The course isn't really going to teach us much about how to use new media, but it's not claiming to. Fortunately I'm pretty experienced in that anyway.

The course *is* very industry-focussed - we're paying $17 000 for it so it would be a poor look-out if it weren't - but it also is teaching us to be good writers, and I think the environment is one where loving the story is encouraged.

Sounds like my course is a lot better than the one at UQ.

Re: Google did something seriously wrong. (Scripting News)

djackmanson — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:55:26 -0000

Facebook doesn't automatically friend people for me, nor does it reveal personal information about, say, one's workplace, partners and other contacts to abusive ex-husbands, as happened to one person discussed on a blog post that has now been made private.

Email is absolutely different from Twitter. Are you willing to post, here, a list of names and email addresses of the top 20 people you talk to via email? Or, to be closer to the Buzz "experience", are you willing to let your top 20-most regularly emailed people all know each other's email addresses? And to let them see the top-20 email contacts of the other people on the list?

Rhetorical questions, obviously, but we're entitled to expect that the contents of our email inboxes - including our contact lists - are private unless we explicitly decide otherwise.

Re: Google Buzz Surpasses 9 Million Posts and Comments

djackmanson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:02:35 -0000

Well I'm glad Mashable isn't just shilling for Google then.

BTW, if you follow someone on Buzz, and you use Google Reader, you'll automatically follow them in Google Reader too. That was the final straw for me - I switched Buzz off. I actually liked the general idea, but if Google can't resist reaching into my account and changing things I don't want them to change, I'm damned if I'm going to encourage them.

Re: Call for volunteers to meet Wayne Swan (for a start)

djackmanson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:28:12 -0000

Sweet! Thanks very much for helping out, the more who do the more likely we are to win.

Re: What are your expectations?

djackmanson — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:43:36 -0000

I'll edit the Wiki soon to mention this, but what do you think you could do with the idea of the Nanny State invading your home to censor your internet? Or trying to tell people how to be a parent?

Re: Report on Monday’s Anti-Censorship Meeting #sicbne

djackmanson — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:52:04 -0000

There are three comments about the content of the YouTube videos. 2 comments are on part one of Cameron Reilly's speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

From alborath:

cam - please dont do this -
* name-calling (eg Youre a terrorist)
* glittering generalities (eg If you dont support censorship of the net, you love child porn)

Cam please - you will find that the christian lobby would actually be behind this if they understood the socialistic / fascist implications of a mandatory censorship scheme. dont antagonise them or belittle their ideals (which they are entitled to) with the same techniques you descried as propoganda in your own speech

From thesleepydumpling:

If Mr Reilly is going to use this cause to further some kind of anti-Christian campaign, he's going to do it more damage than use.

What is needed is for the every day people, those who aren't already immersed in social media to understand the implications of Conroy's internet censorship. Not a "them and us" mentality . This censorship affects all Australians, not just those on the secular left.

And by thesleepydumpling on Part 2 of Cameron Reilly's speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

This half was much better. Focused on the matter at hand without name calling or creating a them and us scenario. Some excellent tactics mentioned.

Re: Personal Resposibility

djackmanson — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0000

I think the "personal responsibility" line is a good one to take. A grown-up nation knows how to make its own decisions and doesn't need the Government to keep an eye on us.

The other good thing to talk about, I think, is that people *have no choice* but to deal with a world where information is free. There are so many ways around this censorship plan (see http://bit.ly/beatcensorship ) that no matter what the Government chooses to waste money on, children will find whatever they want.

So it comes back to parenting. Good parenting WON'T stop kids seeing bad stuff if they go looking for it (kids are sneaky, remember) but it will mean kids are willing to talk to parents about what they see.

Re: Weight Loss Surgery – one woman’s story

djackmanson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:04:58 -0000

Personally I have major doubts about lap band surgery in my case, because I think my over-eating is emotional rather than based on my stomach's signals of fullness or emptiness, and so I would probably overeat anyway.

Despite my own doubts, we need to hear from all sorts of people, including the woman in this post. People do need to decide what they want to do for themselves, and part of that is being able to listen to many voices.

Re: Aperture and sponsorship - some queries.

djackmanson — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:35:06 -0000

OK, two sorts of things you need, firstly physical stuff and secondly services.

1) Stuff

Songket and Sari cloth - going through your mum sounds like a good option unless you could find cheap versions of the stuff somewhere in Brisbane. I guess that's unlikely, from what you say?

Crazy shoes - again, what exactly? To me that means going to the op shops (there are 4 in the Valley for a start) and buying old shoes and decorating them. Glittery paint, perhaps? Could be done fairly cheaply.

Suspenders and stockings - find a small lingerie shop that you could build into a long-term partner. Offer them a short-term deal that you'll write about them on your blog, mention them to people looking for gear, etc. If the deal goes well, look at longer-term plans with them.

Look for one you'd like to write or talk about *anyway*, since the main thing you have to offer a business now is that you'll talk about them in some way. As long as you are open to your audience that you have dealings with them, I don't think it will hurt the authenticity of your voice - IF the article is one you would have

Escapology Chains - what exactly? Just a chain belt with hands shackled in front and chains running to leg hobbles, like some prisoners in the USA wear when they're going to court? Or something more complex? In any case, try and find a supplier who wants publicity and do a similar sort of deal.

Skills:

With all these people, I guess the best thing you can offer is organised exposure. Be careful - so many people, artists especially, have been burnt by working for free for "exposure", so make it clear that this means you will use your skills as a merchandiser/publicist to look for and pass on details to potential clients. Be as specific as possible: "I will write X articles about you" or "I will write a media release about you and send it to Y media organisations and follow up by phone to those organisations" or "I will help you set up a Twitter account and educate you in how to use it to actually engage and not just spam, and you are entitled to Z hours of my time for that help"

Sewing - Brisneyland on LJ, but you already guessed that I'm sure.

Henna Tattooist - um, dunno. I guess this list of Indian community organisations might be a place to start digging for a list? http://www.indiaoz.com.au/A...

You could point out that there are no really good hits if anyone googles "henna tattoo brisbane" and that if you write an enthusiastic article about their work it might become prominent.

Remix/Mashup artist - send out emails to all the artist-run art spaces around town proposing a deal?

Makeup Artist - suspect you'll need some cash for this one unless you can find a student or something. Where do theatre make-up artists train, is there a TAFE course or something? If there is you could put up some posters on the walls or contact the lecturers.

Photographer - there's a lot of serious amateur photographers from Brisbane on Flickr. Two groups worth joining and asking people (or emailing the group admin for permission, perhaps):

Brisbanites http://www.flickr.com/group...
Brisbane Meetup http://www.flickr.com/group...

If you have a look through the photos in the groups you can work out if any photographers have a style that suits you, and maybe contact them directly.

With everyone you're offering to promote, I'm guessing you'd need to find people you feel enthusiastic about as artists/craftspeople anyway. I think you'll sound most powerful when you're telling the truth as you see it, and if you didn't mean what you say it would be easy to see. So you'll need to be picky.

Hope some of this gives you an idea or two, anyway - David

Re: Aperture and sponsorship - some queries.

djackmanson — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:33:31 -0000

Re: Google Reader Gets a Social Makeover, Adds Likes and Followers

djackmanson — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:18:55 -0000

If you're writing articles online you can't *just* use Twitter. You'll need something like Google Reader as well. I do find out a lot of stuff on Twitter but I couldn't possibly use it as my only source of stories about politics or the city I live in, Brisbane, Australia. (the two things I write about online).

My Google Reader account has political blogs in it that no-one else I follow on Twitter reads. It also has YouTube videos and flickr photos produced in Brisbane, and a feed of media releases submitted to one of the local music newspapers. There's no good reason to get this sort of raw material through Twitter. In Twitter, if I miss it, it's probably gone for good unless I go searching. In Google Reader (or any other RSS reader), the info waits for me until I check it out.

I've noticed quite a few people using the "like" feature over the last few days. Popular articles sometimes have over two-hundred "likes", so this seems to be catching on. I've idly hovered over a few of the names in the "likes", which pops up a box with their photo and the first forty or so characters of their description on their Google Profile. If it included more description, this could become an interesting way to casually find new people to follow on Reader.

I've also run the RSS feed from my Shared Items page through Twitterfeed to my Twitter account. So I've been sharing my "shared" items with my Twitter followers for over a year now. Twitter followers are my main audience so this makes Reader very useful.

I'm surprised that Google haven't set up auto-posting to Twitter already through Reader, but even as imaginative a bureaucracy as Google can move slowly and be bad at noticing things people want. I wonder if the new moves towards working with open-source programmers will lead to things like Google Reader and Gmail being thrown open for developers to tweak?

Re: Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head

djackmanson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:22:10 -0000

If you're happy with what Tumblr can already do, there's no reason to use Posterous.

But if you wanted to (for example) post to Tumblr a lot from a mobile phone, and include videos and voice posts in those posts, then using Posterous to post to your Tumblr could be useful. It all depends what you want to do.

Re: Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head

djackmanson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:04:26 -0000

I love Posterous, so easy to email pix, vids fr Nokia 6210c to Twitter, Facebook etc. Tumblr def has more users, so it's interesting to see Sachin from Posterous say that "no matter where your communities are...we want to help you make those experiences richer and easier"

I hope that means that rather than trying to compete with Tumblr to create a "community", Posterous will promote itself as a *supplement* to Tumblr. Example: If you're not in the USA, you might want to email a voice post from your mobile phone to your Tumblr, but you can't (I've tried, Tumblr only accepts audio posts in mp3 format and my phone records in .amr format).

You CAN do that with Posterous, and you can also then autopost the audio to your tumblr account. So people in the very active Tumblr community who want better mobile posting would have a reason to use Posterous as a backup.

If you're looking to build a community or raise your profile online, I doubt that Posterous *in itself* will be very good for that. Posterous' logical strength is being a one-stop shop for posting to the other sites where people meet and keep in touch with people, like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and so on.

Another logical service for Posterous would be a unified sign in for commenting on blogs like this. That might sound silly, taking on both Facebook Connect and Twitter, but I would love it if this comment would get automatically posted to my Posterous, my Twitter and my Facebook all at once with a link back to this article so people can follow the link, read the article, and comment from me and other people. (I'm logged in through Twitter Connect so it will ONLY go to Twitter).

Re: Test post photo on Tumblr to #twitter, zombie lemons again

djackmanson — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:22:00 -0000

OK, so I sent the photo with this post attached to the email. No photo. Too big? I didn't resize it from high resolution...

Re: David Jackmanson, Brisbane, Australia - Bloody hell, this [femalename][initial][year]...

djackmanson — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:50:35 -0000

Just testing how Disqus comments will work with my tumblr

Re: mikeyy: Another Twitter Worm on the Loose

djackmanson — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:19:39 -0000

In a technical sense, yes. But since the whole point of the first attack was to spam the stalkdaily site, taking it down - once there is absolutely certain confirmation that the same guy is behind both the attacks and the stalkdaily site - would ensure that he gets no benefit out of his illegal and annoying actions.

Re: mikeyy: Another Twitter Worm on the Loose

djackmanson — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:36:04 -0000

What do you mean stalkdaily isn't part of the attack? There is a message on the front page of Stalkdaily where the site admin - presumably mikeyy - openly admits he was the person behind the attacks and links to the BNO article where mikeyy claims responsibility. Mikeyy has been caught doing this before on stickam as well and received cease and desist letters - see here for evidence http://sqworl.com/?i=a11951

Mikeyy also has an account on stalkdaily where he replies to people asking him if he had anything to do with the attack - before admitting to it, he lied and said he had nothing to do with it.