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Public Address 01/02/07 - Bob Each Way
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 1:03 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Here's the good thing about John Key's speech this week: it highlights genuine need rather than, as those of his predecessor did, targeting latent resentment. If its content drifts into the banal sometimes - Key's evocation of "the Kiwi way" is spectacularly ... More >>
Public Address 31/01/07 - We're Blending Again
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 11:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
We have a new round of Karajoz Great Blend events - and it's next week! We've had a couple of details to iron out, which has delayed the announcement but we're ready to go in both Wellington and Auckland and we'd love to see y'all there... More >>
Public Address 30/1/7 - Land-Grab In Magic Kingdom
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 10:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If you follow these issues, you will doubtless be familiar with the US Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which saw the Walt Disney Company successfully lobby for a law that prevented various of its works coming out of copyright. You probably ... More >>
Public Address 29/01/01 - In Other News…
Monday, 29 January 2007, 12:48 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Yesterday's Herald on Sunday editorial paid Public Address a compliment - declaring that this site and Kiwiblog are "worthwhile reads, maintained by a dedicated group of talented writers and thinkers" - and then proceeded to get it completely wrong... More >>
Public Address 26/01/07 - Just A Little Bit Good?
Saturday, 27 January 2007, 10:52 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Even at the risk of having to momentarily lay down the chip on her shoulder, you might have thought Tariana Turia could have found something to welcome in the news on Maori outcomes from last year's census... More >>
Public Address 25/01/07 - A Funny Bit At The End..
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 11:16 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There's a Sydney Morning Herald story today about the discovery of a gang video called lebo thugs on YouTube. Its most offensive element is a still frame of gang rapist Bilal Skaf. The story appears in two versions: one which leads with John Howard slamming ... More >>
Public Address 24/01/07 - Follies
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 10:08 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Around today's news in sixty seconds. 1. Jayden Comes Home. Continuing last week's hard line on criminal justice theory: did you notice how much weight Jayden's Mum lost in prison? Join the dots. 2. The Elephant In The Unaffordable Room... More >>
Public Address 23/01/07 - Draped In Their Flag
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 5:16 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
As agreed in yesterday's discussion thread, Australian Big Day Out promoter Ken West made a terrible blue when he told a journalist there would be a ban (it was never official) on bringing the Australian flag to the Sydney BDO, which takes place on ... More >>
Public Address 22/01/07 - The Big Roundup
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:56 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So after the obligatory herding of cats and packing of bags, we set out in convoy for Mt Smart, taking the back way through the Mt Roskill badlands. Getting to the gate turned out to be the easy part: inside was a scrum... More >>
Public Address 19/01/07 - Appeasing Osama
Friday, 19 January 2007, 11:17 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I always think it's odd when liberals are accused - as they frequently are in some circles - of being in league with radical Islamic conservatives. Surely the people who have common cause with religious conservatives are other religious conservatives? ... More >>
Public Address 18/01/07 - Insane Blogger Vs Press
Friday, 19 January 2007, 10:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I've discovered a new and exciting game you can play with pause button on the PVR: your own version of The Many Faces of John Campbell. It works with other TV presenters as well – I have high hopes for Mark Sainsbury – but is best with The... More >>
Public Address 16/01/07 - It's Only Rock'n'roll
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 3:14 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
For about 15 years I reviewed live concerts for the Herald. In reality what that glamorous-sounding job meant was that for two, sometimes three, and occasionally four nights in a row I'd go off to see some band, group, troupe or ensemble play ... More >>
Public Address 15/01/07 - Wonderful Athletes
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:55 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm not saying it would have changed the result - Australia are too good and Nathan Astle isn't in any form - but Astle should not have been given out in yesterday's one-dayer. We got the replays, of course, and the commentators all observed that ... More >>
Public Address 12/01/07 - The Writing On The Wall
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:38 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There is a famous saying: Those who do not learn from history are condemned to keep watching it re-run on CNN. And that's pretty much how I feel tonight after watching the current American president address his people and tell them that more of their ... More >>
Public Address 11/01/07 - The New Boss
Friday, 12 January 2007, 10:10 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Michael Carney notes the significance of TVNZ's content deal with the BBC - which includes the adult Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood. This after former programmer Annemarie Duff didn't even bid for the revived Doctor Who, because, she once told me, it was ... More >>
Public Address 10/01/07 - The Suicide Note
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:46 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
My thought as I started reading the essay by Auckland University cryptographer Peter Gutman on the "suicide note" implicit in the content protection layer of Windows Vista was that the utility of computers was being sacrificed on the altar of content ... More >>
Public Address 02 - 09/01/07: Pills, Pip, Roundup
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:19 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
More party pill palaver; Getting the pip; D1: Delhi vs Belly; Inauspicious; The Sounds of Silence More >>
Public Address 28/12/6 - True Meaning Of Tutaekuri
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:15 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Getting Richard Dawkins for Christmas might seem to lack a certain sentiment, but the big book of The God Delusion isn't bad holiday reading. Dawkins is still the energiser bunny of atheism, but he writes beautifully and argues conscientiously... More >>
Public Address 22/12/06 - Last Words
Friday, 22 December 2006, 12:25 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Christmas of 1986, 20 years ago, was my first away from home. I had been in London for seven months and, as young New Zealanders do, I had arranged to spend the day with other Kiwis... More >>
Public Address 20/12/06 - And The Word Of The Year
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 4:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The word of the year for 2006 is "unbundled", according to the readers of the popular New Zealand blog website Public Address. The keyword of telecommunications reform trumped all others in an online vote at Public Address' community site, Public Address ... More >>
