Arun Stephens

Soon the media won’t be able take the piss out of politicians. That’s a bit of a broad statement but that’s what they’re saying.

Currently media can’t take video or photos of everything in Parliament. Only when someone is standing to talk. Well, if Parliament is open to anyone, and anyone visiting the public gallery would be able to see the goings on, then surely all the goings on of Parliament should be allowed to be broadcast to those who can’t make it to Wellington?

Public policy and the common law seem to suggest that if you’re in the public eye, you have less of a right to privacy. I can’t remember everything from privacy law, not even the Court of Appeal’s decision in the Hosking case, but surely MPs are more in the public eye and because they represent the people, the people have more of a right to see them in their element?

That is all. Nobody reads this anyway. Not sure why I bother!

Have you heard of this? Well, I just found out about it. It’s quite cool. It’s a client for blogging, and you can even use it for Blogger blogs. It seems there’s some sort of standard that Blogger supports.

So this is written using Windows Live Writer. I’m not sure if it’s better or worse or the same as using Word to write blog entries.

I have also started the blog for Zemobo. Zemobo will be quietly launched at the beginning of July. You can sign up at the Zemobo web site to be notified when it launches.

Ever done a search for “search” on Google?