Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog
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Bring back the online meritocracy
on Oct 16, 2009Last Thursday’s Vista Group meeting (all in attendance: Natalie, Jim, Mark and myself) touched on, after a long discussion about education and a briefer one about my mayoral campaign, Google. Has it peaked? Jim spoke highly of Bing, Mic...
The children have entered the room
on Sep 28, 2009The team has returned from Air New Zealand Fashion Week, with mostly good news, but heard a few tanties from around the industry. It’s interesting, because I could have sworn that when I corresponded from the same event many years ago, there were m...
Spotting a Twitter-spammer: the mouseover method
on Sep 12, 2009If things continue at this rate, Twitter will cease to be useful. Each day, I pop into Twitter, and find I have to block more people than I leave as a follower. There is a theory—with some weight, incidentally—that those with too many follo...
Herald, make up your mind
on Sep 8, 2009I was interested to read Scott Kara’s review of the Miss Universe telecast in The New Zealand Herald, belatedly, today. I assume the reviewer’s name is Scott Kara, even though it was italicized. Breaks from my snobbish adherence to Ha...
Finding ways to decrease your Twitter follower count
on Aug 20, 2009Most people join Twitter and would like to see their follower numbers increase. Not so yours truly, at least not based on the last four weeks (graphic from Twittercounter): In July, Twitter sorted out its counting procedure, which was iffy for much o...
Will I have to give up narcing on red-light-runners?
on Aug 19, 2009It’s great that using cellphones while driving will become illegal in New Zealand from November, with the usual exceptions of hands-free units. But, I wondered, what about people like me, who has very few uses for cellphones in cars, other than usi...
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