Jack Yan on Vox

Fix my street again, please

2008-05-12T05:42:13Z

I could have spent half an hour doing something more productive but them’s the breaks as a ratepayer. Attn.: Transport Group, Wellington City Council via email Ladies and Gentlemen: We’re very happy that WCC has contracted Fulton Hogan to rese...

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Leadership comes from the grass roots, not institutions

2008-05-09T11:17:21Z

[Cross-posted] Sometimes I surprise myself on what comes up in blog comments. In a thread about the Iraq war and the short memories of nations over on Vox, I wrote the following. And as I wrote, I believed this to be a possible truth. To go forth...

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Wordpress to be blocked in Brazil over sex video?

2008-04-29T00:38:06Z

Just got this in from Mike Corso at Cool Site of the Day. A recent Brazilian YouTube sex scandal threatened to close down every WordPress blog around the world. Did you hear about it? It's already called “YouTube Gate”—apparently a spicy sex s...

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Can we make 2008 a civil year?

2008-01-02T11:27:05Z

With the good news of the engagement between my friend Jennifer Siebel and Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, whom I had some contact with in his first year on the job, I have to note that the usual anti-Jen bloggers have been more silent. Ei...

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QotD: best blog of ’07

2007-12-30T23:40:28Z

What was the best blog post you wrote this year? What was the best post or blog you read? Hard to say. Of mine, I thought the observations about the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial were pretty good and provoked a good and polite comment from the other...

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Blog entries for Journeyman increasing?

2007-12-06T22:21:42Z

If you do a Google Blog Search, the entries for Journeyman seem to be on the up, with people discovering the show this week. I am not sure why it has taken this long to catch on Stateside, but I hope this late interest will have people tuning in o...

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Vox features yours truly

2007-11-28T00:32:14Z

This has happened to some friends on Vox, but it’s nice to be featured myself! I’m neither of the white dudes in the photo!

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Lucire ‘Insider’ blog ready for prime-time

2007-09-09T12:37:35Z

[Cross-posted] One glitch aside (in the notes below) I think we might be ready for prime-time—this is the public announcement (rather than the private one sent to Voxers earlier). Lucire has a blog—after I resisted it for years. The idea: to wr...

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Ingmar Bergman dies, 89

2007-07-30T12:04:45Z

As reported at Irma’s blog. Interesting: I learned of this here at Vox before the MSM.

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The Americans had Pearson; the Irish have Sky Handling Partners

2007-06-26T11:31:47Z

Here’s one going around the blogosphere, courtesy of my friend and colleague Patrick Harris in London. The basic story: dude gets bad service from company. Blogs about it. Company decides to get revenge by signing him up to heterosexual and homose...

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