Kingi Gilbert

Perception of Maori - Past, Present, Future

This article discusses the use of information to manipulate public perception of Maori. It briefly talks about Maori response and finally presents five things that can be done to fight a 150 year

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Information Disruption: Ahead of the Machine

Curation of articles on information warfare, computational propaganda, psychological operations, disinformation, fake news, hate, right versus left, technology overload, attention, hyper-partisanship, humane technology and dignity. Aviv Ovadya @metaviv "The Terrifying Future of

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Outside the Bubble

A brilliant way to conglomerate the threads into particular topic areas. Great idea, see it here! BuzzFeed News is launching an experiment this week called "Outside Your Bubble," an attempt to

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Facebook News Feed: Redirecting the stream

A simple question: "If censorship is not practiced at Facebook then how come porn doesn't make it into the newsfeed?" Facebook isn't 4chan, it censors content for the public good (values

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Local: More Than A Label: Sir Bob Jones versus Renae Maihi ... the media headlines

Dear TVNZ Editors & Headline Writers, Thank you for changing the headline on one of your articles written by Emily Cooper. It used to be headlined: "Sir Bob Jones to sue Maori

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Evil? Your website is competing against Google's search results

Journalists have raised questions about the actual definition of what Google considered "evil". What is the motivation to keep a website going if less people visit because they find everything they

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Distortion: the Media's Role in the Political Process

David versus Goliath. How can we help to amplify the voice of the underdog in a media empire? The news media today does not just report the news but also represents the views

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The future of news is filtering trash

Pretty stunned by the gall of young people in Veles Macedonia making thousands each month from pro-Donald Trump anti-Obama news, see news articles here. I am also disappointed that corporate news media are

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Social media, the confusion of truth and social progress

To put this in everyday language, Karl Marx believed that capitalism would eventually destroy itself and lead to a better form of social organisation with greater vitality for the people in the society.

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The problem with oil

Everyday we fill-up that gasoline tank, we support the oppression of financial freedom, we support the oppression of the middle-east, the degradation of the environment and worse, we keep in place a political

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Republicans destroy democrats

Six ways Team Trump defeated Team Hillary and six things Democrats can do to claw power back. Yes, Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton by 279

Reboot or die

The market economic system will likely kill us all unless we advance new ideals focussing on a healthy interconnectedness with the planet earth. When our world is unrecognisable, will it be fit for

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Haleakala

Refresh. Inspire. Cleanse. Haleakalā. In Hawaiian folklore, the crater at the summit of Haleakalā was home to the grandmother of the demigod Māui. According to Hawaiian legend, Māui's grandmother helped him capture the

Rudy Cafe

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Almond Butter Cookies with Sugar Sprinkles

I made these yummy cookies! Yes sir! Heat up the oven, get a glass of full fat milk (or a beer, or tequila, or whatever you like) and layback and enjoy. Here is

Voyaging with the ancestors

Traditional Polynesian voyaging canoes keep the art, language, culture, music and lifestyle of Oceania alive. This is my journey to locate and informally document what is known about these voyaging canoes. From Aotearoa,

Laura's Garden

This is a friends garden in Kula, Maui. Really cute. I'm not that stoked on the Samsung Galaxy camera but better than nothing.

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Flying Insights

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death By W.B Yeats I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that

Art

Inspired by Oceania

Sun blaze

Evening epic

Life on Maui

Kaputuhi Marae, Otorohanga, New Zealand

This is a ancestral meeting house of Ngati Kaputuhi people of New Zealand. In this case, a birthday for Uncle Pat.

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Hoe Toa

Hoe Toa started as a canoe production business from 2010 to 2013 and was the vehicle through which the Manini canoe was developed. After a limited run of 5 canoes, Kingi moved to

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Ignite Studios

Ignite Studios is a studio designing, developing, testing and deploying content for companies in the USA and Oceania.