Even though more young women are spending time on Facebook at the exclusion of other sites, last night I decided to stop connecting the Lucire RSS feed in to its Facebook fan page. We began the fan page very late, having relied on using a Facebook group. And even then, these were promoted half-heartedly. […]
Read More… from Putting a full site feed on a Facebook fan page is not a good idea
Spotted on the Lucire website today, an advertisement for Consumer magazine. It’s a Flash animation, suggesting that not all car insurance policies are perfect. The opening frame shows a car with oversized coins for wheels, and the wheels shrink to a more standard size at the end of the animation. The copy reads, […]
While chatting about the movie Shaker Run with one of our Lucire team (who was not born when the film was made), I noticed that the intersection at Courtenay Place–Taranaki Street–Dixon Street was rather treacherous in 1980s’ fiction (start at 1’56”): Fast forward to 1986 and the Hong Kong film 最佳拍檔千里救差婆 (marketed as Aces […]
Read More… from Wellington’s most dangerous intersection (in fiction)
A very good Vista Group luncheon (Jim, Natalie, self), where we discussed: the Gap rebrand; The Hobbit, unions and the BNZ Centre boilermakers’ strike; and my mayoral campaign. On the first topic, we concluded that it was down to a simple cock-up. None of us could see any reason for the Gap to rebrand […]
Read More… from Wellington needs a new brand for a new decade
Above The first issue of Lucire in 1997. Below right Lucire’s first iPad cover. [Cross-posted at Lucire] An hour ago, we turned 13. Normally this wouldn’t have merited much of a mention, since 13’s not the sort of number people tend to celebrate. But I happened to be up, after a long day catching up […]
I love how ‘Capital Day’ is always fun in The Dominion Post: you can’t believe the mileage I got out of its story implying that I could fix Wellington’s weather earlier this year with a fluxcapacitor. I even think it got me a few votes from people who didn’t see the irony (or the impossibility). […]
On Saturday, I called then-Councillor, and now Mayor-elect, Celia Wade-Brown to congratulate her. I felt sure that the special votes would see her ushered in, and in my Sky TV interview that night, I stated much the same: I would offer our new Mayor my support for programmes that would benefit the people of Wellington. […]
Read More… from Thank goodness I did not have a ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ moment on Saturday
This was a nice souvenir of the campaign: Brenda Wallace’s summary on how well we engaged on Twitter. I hate to think where I would have been without social media. Although it won’t make the slightest bit of difference to my placing, I would be interested to know where the special votes will finally […]
At our campaign after-party: self, Karen King, and Chloe Oldfield and Aaron Hape. It is perhaps no surprise that the last 24 hours saw more Tweets to me than any other period in my life, as the results from the local body elections came in. I was overwhelmed by the messages, which were very […]
Read More… from Winding down after a busy, post-campaign 24 hours
Today was a good reminder why we cannot trust a foreign company to look after our parking, and why things need to be brought back under council control. Parking enforcement is not about profit. Karen was unduly issued with a parking ticket in a P5 space after hours. And I received one today. You […]
Read More… from By all means, enforce parking, but it’s not a licence to write fiction