Stephen Blyth's Blog

The Fun family photos promotion the Families Commission ran at the International Cultural Festival in Auckland on 26 February was a real hoot. During the course of the day we took over 250 photos of different familes, friends and other permutations of bodies and faces. I was part of the team cajoling festival goers, handing [...]

Over the last few weeks I’ve been enjoying a new blog on the Guardian website about an organic allotment a group of Observer Magazine staff have started working on. They’re starting from scratch at a negelected allotment in Hampstead, London. As photos and videos on the blog show, they started with a pretty messy site [...]

It’s gratifying when people notice that you’re doing good work. Last week David Hume, a consultant working for the State Services Commission, said The Couch is “a leading example of online participation in New Zealand”. David is part of a team promoting efforts by government agencies to use the Internet for citizen participation. You can [...]

On Monday the Wellington Regional 2020 Communications Trust ran a workshop to test ideas for delivering a new ICT advice and support service for community and voluntary organisations in the Wellington region (the participants are pictured here). Our facilitator, and Trust chairperson, Erina Papp managed to boil the whole two hour workshop into a single [...]

I’ve been humming and haring about whether to upload any photos of our daugther Elsa. Something primal has struck me – I feel very protective of her and I guess I don’t want to her image freely shared willy nilly with strangers. It’s not that I think any harm will come to her (I definitely [...]

Often when I read about some trend in the USA, or elsewhere overseas, I wonder if the same sort of thing is happening in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Save the Internet clip, which you can link to on YouTube above, is about a campaign by citizens in the USA to resist corporate efforts to control [...]