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Public Address 26/03/07 - Public Address Radio
Monday, 26 March 2007, 3:46 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
We have a radio show. It is called, with impeccable logic, Public Address Radio, and it will be presented by myself and David Slack at 2pm on Saturday afternoons, starting this week, on Radio Live. It's produced by the Down Low Concept, the creators ... More >>
Public Address 23/03/07 - Dum Da Dat Dada Da!!
Friday, 23 March 2007, 4:22 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm doing something exciting on Monday. I'm going to the media preview of This is New Zealand at Park Road Post in Wellington. Say what? Let me explain. Let me take you back: It's 1970, and New Zealand's showpiece at the Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan, ... More >>
Public Address 22/03/07 - Some Politics
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 2:33 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I gather this piece of work has been delivered to residents in Auckland City's Hobson ward. It's a letter alleging a conflict of interest on behalf of the sitting Action Hobson candidates Richard Simpson and Christine Caughey over their part in two council ... More >>
Public Address 21/03/07 - TVNZ On Demand
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 2:26 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Having been critical of aspects of the original announcement, I'm actually quite impressed with the TVNZ On Demand service that launched yesterday. It helps greatly that the website isn't subject to the hulking legacy of the main TVNZ site, and, ... More >>
Public Address 19/03/07 - All The News That's Fit
Monday, 19 March 2007, 2:44 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I have a few things to do before the big event tonight, so I'll keep it brief, but if a wannabe politician can review The Clean, then surely I should too. They're in good touch. It might have been Hamish's 50th birthday on Saturday night (yes, there ... More >>
Public Address 16/3/07 - More Political Tourette's
Friday, 16 March 2007, 12:25 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I see National's Judith Collins has had another bout of political Tourette's: this time attacking the Children's Commissioner Cindy Kiro for her support of the Section 59 bill. Collins issued a statement declaring Kiro to have "lost the plot" and advising ... More >>
Public Address 15/03/07 - Shonky Scepticism
Thursday, 15 March 2007, 7:20 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There are some important announcements further down today's post, but first: well, I guess I might download and watch the UK Channel 4 programme The Great Global Warming Swindle in its entirety, but it would be more out of interest than in the expectation ... More >>
Public Address 14/03/07 - Memories Of Attic Press
Wednesday, 14 March 2007, 1:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The old 80s Rip It Up crew got together for a few drinks last night. There were a few no-shows, but it was so nice to see everyone again - Babs, Cheryl, Murray, and, not least, our old designer Ian Dalziel, who I haven't seen for 16 years, and who... More >>
Public Address 13/03/07 - Kids These Days
Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 1:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Pew Research's A Portrait of "Generation Next" looks like this week's must-read. Pew finds that America's current 18-25 generation is more liberal, more tolerant and more Democrat leaning than the one before - but somewhat lacking in terms of ... More >>
Public Address 12/03/07 - Gay But Really Not Happy
Monday, 12 March 2007, 2:32 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
One of the things the TVNZ Charter is meant to do is to guarantee the production and screening of programming for and about minority communities. The relevant part is a fairly ugly piece of written English, but it gets the point across. It undertakes ... More >>
Public Address 09/03/07 - Never Mind The Bollards
Friday, 9 March 2007, 2:52 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Tony Holden left the building, and hasn't taken long for his 5.30 folly to follow. The Point, the $12 million project to give TV One a ratings run-in to its nightly news bulletin, was cancelled yesterday. Frankly, there are better things to do with ... More >>
Public Address 07/03/07 - Introducing GodTube
Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 1:43 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
PZ Myers spotted a new YouTube knockoff, GodTube, and promptly set about making fun of the loopy creationist stuff you just knew was going to be there. But I found something a bit more interesting: a set of four parodies of the Mac vs PC ads... More >>
Public Address: A Special Public Address Message
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 4:29 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I've given over this space to Conor Roberts, who has something very important to say on behalf of our friends at Pead PR. All of us here at Public Address hope you'll take a moment to read it: I arrived in Auckland as a fresh faced... More >>
Public Address 06/03/07 - That's Entertainment!
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 10:59 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In my column in the latest Idealog magazine, I lamented (a) the fact that none of the Flying Nun Record catalogue was available to New Zealanders for digital download, and (b) that F Nun's owner Warner Music was so fixated on DRM that it was ignoring ... More >>
Public Address 05/03/07 - Sunday Newspaper Bouquet
Monday, 5 March 2007, 8:39 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Yesterday's Sunday Star Times contains a very good story by Ruth Laugesen on the Herceptin debate. If you have any interest in the issue, you should read it. It explains the implications of funding 52-week treatment, explains where the 52-week term came ... More >>
Public Address 02/03/07 - Bad Men
Friday, 2 March 2007, 11:51 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm damned glad the judge chose to reveal the prior rape conviction of Bob Schollum and Brad Shipton in his comments yesterday. I'm not sure if this means there will be no more prosecutions - the scant information on the suppression orders that remain ... More >>
Public Address 01/03/07 - Mt Roskill And The Movie
Friday, 2 March 2007, 9:59 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Far be it for me to say that Scorsese doesn't deserve an Oscar, but geez, did they have to give him one for The Departed? It wasn't so bad as a movie, but it was a pale imitation of the original, Infernal Affairs... More >>
Public Address 28/02/07 - Geekstuff
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 3:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
We haven't been geeky for a while. So: go and get familiar with Scoopit, a newsranker on the Digg model launched recently by the folks at Scoop. We'll have Scoopit buttons under our posts soon and I'll look at other ways working with Al and the guys... More >>
Public Address 26/02/07 - Launching Into Raunch
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 9:07 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
World's Francis Hooper told the Sunday Star Times that, "as a fashion designer I'm being humorous and irreverent" in creating a toddler t-shirt with the legend "Future P*** Star". No he wasn't: he was being tacky and unoriginal... More >>
Public Address 05/2/07 - 13/2/07: Catchup Edition!
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 12:35 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, I wasn't so much in the weapons side of the business as the selling-the-Phantom-of-the-Opera-soundtrack-to-tourists trade - and I can muster no moral justification for that - but the fact was that the HMV Store in Piccadilly Circus was owned by Thorn EMI, which was also the maker... More >>
