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Public Address 27/04/07 - Unusual Democracy
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 7:59 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Here's a nightmare for Kiwiblog readers: the vote-counting system for the 2008 New Zealand general election is run by a senior Labour Party official. On election night, the government website that updates the official vote tally is, in a highly unusual ... More >>
Public Address 30/04/07 - The Death Of Web 2.0
Monday, 30 April 2007, 3:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A couple of people asked me at Saturday night's wedding party whether I was really going for the job of editing Metro. Y'know, like it said in the paper that I was. I'm not, and have never even discussed the prospect with anyone. A certain diarist ... More >>
Public Address 24/04/07 - Not With Revenge Attacks
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 8:07 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It seems I wasn't the only one thinking the A-word as biographical details of Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung Hui emerged. It wasn't that hard: the inability to make eye contact, lack of friends, monotonal voice and history of being bullied are all pretty ... More >>
Public Address 20/04/07 - Dancing The DMCA
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 12:59 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, you can't watch the Air New Zealand parody ad any more. YouTube has responded to what I presume was an appropriately-formulated DMCA takedown request, and yanked the clip, sending this message to Dan, its creator: This is to notify you that we ... More >>
Public Address 23/4/7 - Great Big WMD Conspiracy
Monday, 23 April 2007, 8:46 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Over the weekend, Glenn Greenwald turned out a sterling post on the "story" that may well represent the neocon media's final jumping of the shark: a claim that not only did Iraq have WMDs, but that the presence of sophisticated "nuclear, chemical ... More >>
Public Address 19/04/07 - Freaks And Nastygrams
Thursday, 19 April 2007, 10:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In this gig - that is, trying to earn at least part of my income blogging - I do sometimes sit at my desk about 5pm and wonder what I'll lead with tomorrow. As it was yesterday, until Andrea Haggit, Legal Counsel for Air New Zealand, came through ... More >>
Public Address 18/4/7 - Awful In More Than One Way
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 1:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
You just knew that Instapundit and Michelle Malkin would respond to the Virginia Tech massacre by implying that it wouldn't have happened if VTech hadn't been a gun-free campus, but you'd think they might have been able to wait more than a couple of hours ... More >>
Public Address 17/04/07 - Art And The Big Guy
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 12:29 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It would be nice if gallery owner John Gow could stop referring to the proposed artists' resale royalty as a "tax". It isn't: taxes are rendered to the government. Is it an artificial construct? Of course - as are performance royalty schemes for songwriters, ... More >>
Public Address 13/4/7 - A Depressing Day In Court
Friday, 13 April 2007, 1:15 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, horsewhip mum of Timaru, that Joan of Arc of parental discipline, put-upon victim of the child-stealing state, etc, etc, is back in court - accused, along with her husband, of assaulting another son. You can read the particularly depressing ... More >>
Public Address 12/04/07 - No Friends Of Science
Friday, 13 April 2007, 11:24 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Is Augie Auer the most oafish lobby group spokesman in the country? Lately, he makes Garth McVicar look like Steven Price. For Tuesday's Herald online story on the IPCC predictions for Australia and New Zealand, he had yet another feeble potshot at NIWA's ... More >>
Public Address 11/04/07 - The Civility Code
Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 4:10 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm occasionally asked, in my paid role as interpreter of such things, whether, given the ghastly things that get written in blogs (or, more likely, in blog comments) a bloggers' code of conduct would be a good idea. I reply that, while it would be ... More >>
Public Address 10/4/7 - Dispatch From A Secret War
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 11:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
"The Future. Today." boasts a rusty billboard in Batticaloa. The coastal town in Sri Lanka's troubled eastern province is at the centre of a renewed military campaign to drive out the separatist forces of the Tamil Tigers (LTTE). From bases around ... More >>
Public Address 05/04/07 - Big Easter Blog Bundle!
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 2:32 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's good news that the captured British sailors are to be released - and a vindication of the British government's diplomatic approach. Raising the temperature would have been indulging the banality of the Iran leadership's rhetoric. Of course, the Americans ... More >>
Public Address 04/04/07 - Things We Needed To Hear
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 2:05 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It has been fashionable in the past few weeks to say that Dame Margaret Bazley's Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct, because it would not name names or venture on cases under investigation and had been conducted under tight terms of reference, ... More >>
Public Address 03/04/07 - Gotta Hand It To Steve
Tuesday, 3 April 2007, 12:27 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
You've gotta hand it to Steve. Yesterday's announcement that EMI will make almost its entire catalogue available via Apple's iTunes Music Store in high-quality non-DRM format from next month. What happened was an elegant solution to at least six different ... More >>
Public Address 02/04/07 - The Public Good
Monday, 2 April 2007, 2:28 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Is the Campbell Smith who told a select committee last week that illicit downloading was killing his artists' careers and forcing them into day jobs the same Campbell Smith who told a room full of people several years ago that he didn't have much of ... More >>
Public Address 30/03/07 - Human Space Invaders
Friday, 30 March 2007, 10:57 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm in Wellington today at Chasing the Long Tail: Audio-Visual Archiving in the Digital Era, a seminar staged by the Film Archive, so I don't have a whole lot of time to blog before the dread 7am flight. So I asked Leo to recommend a couple of movies,... More >>
Public Address 29/03/07 - Rattue A Vegetable Stew
Thursday, 29 March 2007, 3:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In the bygone days of cricket journalism in New Zealand, hyperbole was saved for geometry class. DJ Cameron in the NZ Herald and Dick Brittenden in the Christchurch Press gave us thoughtful, measured and occasionally gruff analysis of the swings ... More >>
Public Address 28/03/07 - Who's Laughing?
Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 12:22 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Who, would you say, was the bravest person you've ever known? Readers of this forum answer the question. One nominates his father in law. "He was a Navy pilot in the Pacific during WWII. When I asked him one day if he was ever scared he replied,..." More >>
Public Address 27/03/07 - The Solipsistic Left
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 4:32 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In this week's Listener, Simon Wilson has an interview with Nick Cohen about his new book What's Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way, which asks, says Cohen in the interview "why people in the West who are thoroughly liberal will make excuses for ... More >>
