Te Kete o Karaitiana Taiuru (Blog)

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  • Social media and web usage for the Ikaroa Rāwhiti campaign: Part I

    Introduction Only this year have I seen an increase in Māori politicians joining and using Social Media and the web. Recently one Māori politician told me that the web and social media were a waste of time, as the old people have the votes and want to see him at birthdays, tangi and various other…

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  • Radio Spectrum – Digital Land in a new era of confiscation

    Radio Spectrum is largely unheard of in our non-technical society and especially in Maori culture, despite radio spectrum being recognised as a Taonga 1 by the Waitangi Tribunal which resulted in the New Zealand government giving Maori $5 million dollars to invest in Maori ICT participation. In turn this was used to form a part…

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  • Radio Spectrum – Digital Land in a new era of confiscation

    What is Spectrum The Treaty Claim Who will benefit from the Claim Groups involved Radio Spectrum is largely unheard of in our non-technical society and especially in Maori culture, despite radio spectrum being recognised as a Taonga by the Waitangi Tribunal which resulted in the New Zealand government giving Maori $5 million dollars to invest…

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  • Spectrum rights for Maori and the future

    I read this in an email signature this morning. It struck me of the technological age we live in now and what our future generations technology will be like in 100 years time. It also raises the important issue of that Māori are now facing over spectrum rights and what the future issues and opportunities of…

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  • Māori Language Week in Twitter – Initial thoughts

    Twitter is buzzing with Māori words and tweets about Māori Language Week/Te Wiki o te reo Māori. Below are my initial observations, after reading several hundred tweets this morning. Other ad hoc commentary this week will be via my Twitter account @ktaiuru The hashtags for those that are using them, appear to be as follows:…

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  • Tribal and Membership databases – avoiding the dreaded GNA

    Out of date membership details can cost organisations hundreds of thousands of dollars per annum. Despite the fact society has dramatically changed the way it communicates, database structures appear relatively un modified.

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  • .nz domain names with macrons to launch next week

    Media Release – 22 July 2010 – The beginning of next week marks an exciting new phase for the .nz domain name space. From 10am on Monday 26 July 2010, people will be able to register .nz domain names using the macronised vowels ā, ē, ī, ō and ū. Registering a .nz domain name with…

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  • Is Google Racist ?

    and Or just unlucky SEO optimisation that makes some search suggestions look bad. If youa re bored try insurance companies are etc, etc.

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  • Macrons in .nz domains – International Domain Names in .nz

    The ability to register macrons in .nz domain names started to become a reality today for current .nz domain name owners. It is a happy day for me as the original initiator for this to occur in New Zealand some three years ago. An one month sunrise period was launched today by the Domain Name…

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  • Dealing with “hate” based – FaceBook groups

    Some content may offend. Just today was made aware of a New Zealand based racist FaceBook group called “fuck i HATE dirty black MAORI’S” with a group description “this is a group that is devoted to the pure hatred of those dirty shitskined white girl bashing prison-monkeys otherwise known as Maoris”. Firstly it is sad…

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