Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Colin Espiner and new technologies and NZ Politics

From The Press via stuff.co.nz:

"Texting Miss Clark
Colin Espiner in On The House | 11:39 am 11 September 2007

So Damien O’Connor offered his resignation to Prime Minister Helen Clark via text message. Isn’t technology wonderful? It kind of makes Brad Pitt’s dumping of Jennifer Aniston by fax look positively luddite.

Maybe O’Connor knew that Clark was a bit of a text fan. The Prime Minister’s abilities in this area are well known. She texted her parents after almost falling out of a light plane during the last election. She carried on quite a relationship by text with Grant Dalton during the America’s Cup campaign.

As O’Connor himself said this morning, a text message was the one way he knew of getting through to Clark.

One can imagine the conversation went something like:

O’Connor: “Hln sori i stffed up agn. Went bit ott with rgby & all. Shd rsgn. Rgds doc”

Clark: “Gr8 tks doc can use agnst u lata. Stay put 4 now cos cant find any1 else. Lol hc”"

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