I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
Crazy, crazy times in NZ Politics this week as MP’s personal lives and vile (but exciting in their scale) rumours fuel the coffee houses.
As an entrepreneur, proud exporter and high tax payer, I’m naturally right leaning, thinking we should be incentivising business to grow the pie rather than arguing about how to slice it up. But I wasn’t anti-Helen. I have never been a fan but I did respect her intellect and control.
Her actions of the past few days, ongoing unprompted personal attacks against Brash and hypocrisy, have left me - and I suspect many others - turned off and repulsed. It’s fascinating to watch her plainly try to establish themes with misinformation and accuse others of what she is actively doing.
Anyway, enough of that.
What has been interesting from a technology and blogging point of view is the immediate direct channel and speed of conversation.
For example Ian Wishart can defend himself: http://www.tbr.cc. Incidentally, I thought the Sunday Star Times blatant attempt to introduce the subject into the mainstream media by taking the high ground against Ian Wishart was disgusting.
This incident lead me to David Farrar’s blog, which apparently is the hotspot for these current issues. Politics in NZ has entered deeply into the blogosphere.
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One of the things fueling the pledge card furore is my lawsuit against Helen Clark, claiming that she misappropriated public funds - a breach of the Public Finance Act, the Constitution Act, and the Bill of Rights.
All of the details for that case are blogged as they happen on my site, http://www.darntonvsclark.org, and the source documents for the case (e.g., Parliamentary Service’s statements of defence, received yesterday) are all available on the site for anyone to read and make their own judgements.
And in the rare moments that I’m not suing the Prime Minister, I’m developing rich internet apps to aid other software developers :-)