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June 10, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Get Off The Web

a spider never gets any shit for being on the web all day every day. Going after easy targets that fly by and get caught up in their sticky lies, I sometimes watch as a spider waterslides down the plughole – I think, ‘that’s what he gets!’
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Get Off The Web, Internet, Poem, Poem: Get Off The Web, Spider ·

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December 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Why Didn’t You Write About My Experience When You Were Writing About Your Experience?

This band is overrated, didn’t you know that when you wrote about how much you rated them? That album sucks actually – not that I’ve heard it but I’m disappointed you didn’t hate it on my behalf. Why would you even bother saying that book was good? I mean, I wouldn’t know, but I’m not […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Comments, Internet, Poem, Poem: Why Didn't You Write About My Experience When You Were Writing About Your Experience?, Poems, Reviews, Why Didn't You Write About My Experience When You Were Writing About Your Experience?, Writing ·

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July 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Many More

The books are piling up and there’s no plan beyond trying to get through them as fast as I can, but with too many started now like open web browsers – strange too to be comparing the old-fashioned word with the world that was supposed to kill it. Weirder to know there’s now two forces […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Internet, Many More, Online, Poem, Poem: Many More, Reading, Web Browsers, Writing ·

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October 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Hall Monitors Roaming The Corridors of The Internet

Hall monitors roaming the corridors of the internet. In the gloaming of a bright, white web they strike. Their spidey-sense tingles wherever bad jokes linger. You want a place to just mingle? No! Not when there’s work to be done! We’re here separating the wheat from the chaff, you’re just sitting there on your fat […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Hall & Oates, Hall Monitors, Hall Monitors Roaming The Corridors of The Internet, Internet, Poem, Poem: Hall Monitors Roaming The Corridors of The Internet ·

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May 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Jaron Lanier: Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now 

Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Jaron Lanier Henry Holt and Co. Jaron Lanier was there for the building of the internet, an early chat-room visitor (and developer), a guy with major tech credentials. He’s become an internet philosopher, a fierce critic of Silicon Valley; he’s like any writer with a troubled history and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Amazon, Book, Book Review, Facebook, Google+, Henry Colt and Co., Instagram, Internet, Jaron Lanier, Jaron Lanier: Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Review, Silicon Valley, Social, Social Media, Tech, Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Twitter, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, YouTube ·

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May 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 116 – Mark Cubey

Welcome to episode 116 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one’s a conversation I had with Mark Cubey. His most recent job was managing Writers & Readers as part of the NZ Festival. Before that, for more than a decade, he was the producer of Saturday Mornings on […]
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January 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 99 – Adam Page

Welcome to episode 99 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Adam Page, he’s an Australian musician – based in Adelaide. He runs Wizard Tone Studios and the label Wizard Tone Records is home to not only his own recordings but a great range […]
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October 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Lo and Behold

“The internet is the spirit of evil, manifestation of the antichrist. Running through everybody on this earth, claiming its victories through those that are evil, turning us all to a darker side than ever imagined”, she said. But, he had to ask, is there a down side too?      
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Behold, Internet, Lo, Lo and Behold, Poem, Poem: Lo and Behold ·

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February 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 14 – Emily Writes

Episode 14 of Sweetman Podcast is my chat with Emily Writes. She’s a “mummy blogger” – though she’s reclaiming that; people say blogger like it’s a dirty word or you’re less of a writer; people say Mummy Blogger to perhaps further invalidate… Emily Writes writes. Funnily enough. She’s been a journalist. She’s moved into blogging […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged #14, Ballet is For Everyone, Blog, Blogging, Boganette, Dear Mama, Emily Writes, Episode 14, Feminism, Feminist, Gender, Injustice, Internet, Interview, Journalism, Magazine, Mama Said, Mother, Mr. B, Mum, Mummy Blogger, New Zealand Herald, Newspaper, Nik Jarvie, Parent, Rape, Simon Sweetman, Social Justice, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast Ep 14, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 14 – Emily Writes, The Herald, Victim Blaming, Women's Weekly, Writer, Writing ·

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May 19, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Auckland Writers Festival: The Media Revolution – Ken Auletta

The Media Revolution: Ken Auletta ASB Theatre/Aotea Centre Saturday, March 16 (4.30pm) For this Auckland Writers Festival event Shayne Currie, editor of The New Zealand Herald was the chair/interviewer – though he never introduced himself. I assume people do that out of modesty, thinking they’re not the important person on stage, but it smacks of […]
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