Dene Mackenzie's blog

An interesting debate has broken out in what has been described as a small, isolated neighbourhood in South Brooklyn - Gerritsen Beach.

Mackline is usually wary of any extreme views - right or left - regarding the internet, its use and possible censorship.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer appears to be losing some support around the world, particularly to Firefox and Google's Chrome.

While strictly not a Mack-line topic, one of the most amusing stories, and sad at the same time, came from the lengthy list of complaints last week when iPhone users found their alarms were not working.

Dunedin South MP Clare Curran posted on Twitter on New Year's Eve wondering what social media was doing to us all.

Her view on Red Alert, the Labour Party blog, was that social media was fast-tracking a global communication evolution.

Mack-line agrees.

A news item last week gave a straightforward report on the clash which has developed in United Kingdom courts over the use of Twitter.

Christmas holidays are arriving very soon - not soon enough some people say.

Wikileaks has dominated not only online traffic in the last couple of weeks.

When journalists and others attend embargoed briefings at the Reserve Bank and Treasury, they are required to hand in their mobile phones and other transmitting devices at the door.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's success with Facebook is leading the technology community to believe that the new messaging service he launched last week will be a success.