This is the blog of David Armstrong, semi-retired writer of Motueka New Zealand.
David has a fair idea of what he thinks about a variety of issues concerning both Planet Earth and his home country, New Zealand, but usually tries to see other sides of the story as well as the view he is forming.
Often viewing the other side or switching roles of the agents helps him gain insights that hopefully draw him closer to whatever “the truth” may be.
David acknowledges that he may be wrong (sometimes or often), but he’s prepared to voice an opinion based on contemplation of multiple sides of an issue. He may be wrong, but . . . . he may also have some insight to offer.
David is a semi-retired journalist and website designer who in the past has worked as a teacher, scientist (physics and engineering), computer programmer and technology writer and editor for The Press newspaper in Christchurch.
Now settled in Motueka (having left Christchurch exactly one year before the misery began there), he began and continues to administer the Motueka Online community news website (www.motuekaonline.org.nz) in 2010, and with daily updating it’s now the largest and probably the most active not-for-profit community website in New Zealand.
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Spot on, David. Sensitively considered and well said!
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Good on you! Thanks for the kind words. If you really want it to take off, keep at it and you’ll get there. Remember, it’s the content that counts most, not the appearance.
I’ve just added you as my daily blog/RSS feed to my website. Check it out. Hope you get some additional readers from the USA Kiwis. Just google Kiwis-in-America and you’ll find my squidoo page.
I don’ know enough about linking but it seems as some of the people responding to your blog are just trying to get backlinks to their pages – well me too but at least I’m a Kiwi interested in your topics and not getting any financial reward for putting your link on my page -I link there on merit as topical info on the New Zealand state of the nation. They’re keeping their comments very vague – I wouldn’t just allow reciprocal linking unless their website has some relevance to yours otherwise it can effect how google views your blog.
Ah, that’s interesting, I wasn’t sure if this spamming technique was indeed a backlink harvester or not, but you’ve caused me to think further about this. I agree, some of the comments have been very non-specific so I should bin them more often.
Best wishes.
David
Hi me again.
I checked a couple and they look like the same person doing wordpress blogs on different products very similar sites and though they say they’ve put links on their sites they haven’t. I suspect they’re spamming tons of wordpress blogs with the same msg. Could be wrong but it looks like it.
Thanks very much. I’ll definitely be more discerning about my choice of approved messages in future! David
Your site doesn’t display correctly on my apple iphone – you might want to try and fix that
I use standard WordPress templates and am not into the technical side of it, iphone users will just have to wait till WordPress sorts that.
As with my previous comment/reply, I didn’t select any music so either it’s a WordPress thing or your receiving device. Just turn the volume down!!
Hi David, just a message to let you know I’ve started a new group on Facebook for my blog Kate’s Online so that I can host discussions on my latest hobby-horse, the Trans Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement negotiations. If you are on Facebook, drop in at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_161098107259548&ap=1 or else drop into the blog and check out the new posts.
http://katekennedyonline.blogspot.com/ Regards, Kate
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Great info! I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Hi David! Great to read you and catch up with you after all these years (have you seen the pix of the Press empty site now? Ah – history!) – heartily endorse your message – and you may be interested to learn that I have started an online petition asking Tony Marryatt to refuse his pay rise . The link is here : http://www.petitiononline.co.nz/petition/tony-marryatt-should-refuse-his-14-4-pay-rise/1391
Semi-retired now huh? That could be changed…
Cheers
Jenny