We all tend to regard Christmas as a a deadline, official or otherwise. Perhaps that's why three NZ On Air-supported videos I've been waiting on have all emerged at once this week. They're each distinctly different affairs, but I like…
War as metaphor has been the keynote of the past decade, according to readers of the Public Address website -- and the Prime Minister's catch-all explanation for memory lapses, "brainfade", is the word of 2012. ¶
"It's a keynote and a…
In the past 24 hours, my Twitter timeline has swelled with links to this blog post by the loving, desperate American mother of a troubled, violent boy, in which she declares "I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s…
I'm not a big user of Spotify, but it has one great element of social utility that really works for me: I can play my friends' Spotify playlists when they come around to visit. It's like a new kind of…
It's that time! Long lists of candidates for Word of the Year 2012 -- and because we recently turned 10, Word of the Decade -- have been disgorged from the discussion and all that remains is for you, the Public…