Category: Opinions-Editorial

• Being Strategic About Trolling

  

  Recently I was trolled on Facebook. Someone left some rather unsavoury comments on a photo I posted.   After some thought and some research, I deleted the post and blocked the person from Facebook. The personal effects on me are just that, private and personal. But it raises some questions for me and for anyone […]

  Andrew Whalan

  July 31, 2012

  Personal, Social Media

  Facebook, Google, Online Communities, Personal Effects, Social media, Social network, Troll, Twitter

• What is True Gallantry Anyway?

  Lou Pardi’s experience of men patronising women but then being just so sweet and nice about it is summarised in the following blog (http://pardipardi.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/dilemma-unintentional-misogyny/). When I quickly read it, my summary was tweeted as “Men are still uncomfortable with successful women and cover it up with false gallantry”. My comments were retweeted by the writer and […]

  Andrew Whalan

  March 5, 2012

  Personal, Social Media

  Social media, Twitter

• The Why Is Missing from Politics….

  The Why Is Missing Today in politics we had a Prime Minister reelected overwhelmingly by her party. The former Foreign Minister is now vanquished and will eventually shuffle off into the political night. Such is politics. Like many people, I was left wondering why. Why did Julia Gillard defeat Kevin Rudd the first time? Why […]

  Andrew Whalan

  February 27, 2012

  Politics

  Foreign Minister, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Politics, Prime minister, Twitter

• Social Media is Old-Fashioned (Really!)

  Before social media, there was the grapevine, bush telegraph or rumour mill. I found this out growing up in two small country towns. Basically, my parents knew everything about everyone. There were no secrets there, and now there seem to be none on the internet! Of course, this is the negative back-biting side of social […]

  Andrew Whalan

  February 26, 2012

  Personal, Social Media

  Blog, Facebook, Pinterest, President, Social media, Social media marketing, Twitter, Vocus

• Climate Change Sceptics:

  Bring on the climate change sceptics! It certainly makes the debate more colourful and exciting. It certainly sells more newspapers, ups TV ratings and increases web site eyeballs. Certainly, the climate change sceptics language, phrases and even their countenance are often quite extraordinary.  But perhaps they have gone too far. We have had the Climategate response.  We […]

  Andrew Whalan

  June 22, 2011

  Politics

  Climate change, Climategate, Climatic Research Unit email controversy, Environment, Global warming controversy, Member of Parliament, Ross Garnaut, United States