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  • Taonga Collection no eating sign

    Taonga Collection no eating sign

    The free to distribute poster below can be downloaded for free to use in any taonga collection for a library, museum or place that has taonga Māori where food should not be consumed. The poster is in English and Chinese as its original purpose was for the Lincoln University Library where there is a high…

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  • Snapchat the new Indigenous IP thief

    Snapchat the new Indigenous IP thief

    Snapchat is the latest social media company to claim Intellectual Property Rights with your data, pics and info including your voice and facial recognition. Under these Terms of Service, if you had recorded your elder sending family a message does so in a traditional chant, wearing traditional clothes and accessories and the face has traditional tattoo,…

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  • Kapa Haka Meme – New digital age warning

    A number of meme’s were produced from the recent Te Matatini Kapa Haka causing offence to the individuals whose images were manipulated.   A social media site in America where members create memes and other humor is produced where people vote on the material: produced memes that were slowly circulated via social media. Unfortunately as with…

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  • Cyber Tangi – A need to better utilise high speed Internet

    My controversial thoughts about cyber tangi are below so as to raise debate/ideas and to make people think about cyber tangi, or to at least respect the rights of any whanau who want a cyber tangi.   When my children’s mum from Taranaki suddenly and unexpectedly passed away almost three years ago at the age…

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  • dot kiwi nz launches with new Maori cybersquatting

    Archived from September 10 21012 .kiwi.nz was launched at 10am this morning in an effort to gain at least 500 registrations within a month so that the domain could be a permanent domain. Within one hour 1000 registrations occurred. Already I have noticed a dozen cyber-squatted Māori names. If you have not already done so, I would suggest you…

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  • National Library Archive – Te Karere coverage

    Sadly the biggest updates to the story occurred after the interview but was covered in the previous two blogs. There was also no opportunity to rebut the National Library. But again it is all covered in the previous two blog postings. . . .

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  • What about your online life when you pass on?.

    I have had the fortunate experience of not knowing anyone with a heavy online presence that has passed away. But I have seen a few social media profiles with farewell messages to the person who has since deceased. This made me curious as to what the average Internet user who has multiple accounts and passwords…

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