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Public Address 17/11/06 - Ng To Coddington
Friday, 17 November 2006, 2:40 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
One word that Debra Hill Cone said on National Radio was instructive. She described Deborah Coddington's North & South article as "courageous". "Courageous." i.e. N&S knew that asking such a question was going to open them up to accusations of racism, ... More >>
Public Address 16/11/06 - Uncapturing Content
Thursday, 16 November 2006, 4:09 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Draft Digital Content Strategy Discussion Document is online now. Having been involved in a part of the process of creating it (the Imagineers' Group, under the auspices of the National Library), I've been very interested to see what emerged... More >>
Public Address 15/11/06 - Coddington Nation
Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 8:42 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Fisking is its own reward - mostly because it's unlikely that it'll lead to any other sort of reward - but it is quite satisfying to deconstruct a work and rip its still-beating heart out as a trophy... More >>
Public Address 14/11/06 - The Stadium And God
Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 12:21 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Yesterday on Nine to Noon, Kathryn Ryan asked me which of the stadium options I preferred. I gave in to my tendency to glibness by making a throwaway comment about the North Harbour one. What I should have said is that I don't really favour any of them... More >>
Public Address 13/11/06 - Glory
Monday, 13 November 2006, 1:13 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There have been four great All Black performances in the professional era: the game against Australia at a drowning Athletic Park in 1996. The furious dismissal of France in Paris in 2004. The second test against the Lions at the Wellington Stadium last ... More >>
Public Address 10/11/06 - More Than A Little Odd
Friday, 10 November 2006, 11:13 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
On Tuesday, Simon McCallum of Otago University's computer science department issued a press release critical of what he regarded as the unfair and anti-competitive "traffic management" Telecom Xtra was imposing on its new 'Go Large' broadband accounts... More >>
Public Address 09/11/06 - Good Result
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 1:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, that was exciting. With the web already awash with punditry on the Democratic victories yesterday, I won't venture too much, save to link once again to Rolling Stone's Worst Congress Ever cover story, which explains in persuasive, well-referenced ... More >>
Public Address 07/11/06 - Watching The Register
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 12:28 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
My guess is this means something: staff at Renaissance, the New Zealand agent for Apple Computer, have been asked to hand back their apple.co.nz addresses. A quick whois reveals that the domain details were last modified on October 7 - and that ... More >>
Public Address 06/11/06 - A Whole New Week!
Monday, 6 November 2006, 8:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
With this tarty tease of a headline and lead para, you'd have expected news of a radical Islamic army flinging sachets of Whiskas at Supre girls on Queen St. But the only supporter of the 'uncovered meat' comment in this story was one guy on a ... More >>
Public Address 03/11/06 - Public Address System!
Friday, 3 November 2006, 10:11 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I mentioned at the beginning of the week that we had something new in the works for you. Well, this is it: Public Address System, a community site designed to complement the one you're reading right now... More >>
Public Address 02/11/06 - Torture Spammers Now
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 3:04 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Ban torture (except for spammers) | Nov 02, 2006 09:55 Russell Brown's Hard News More >>
Public Address 01/11/06 - From A Faraway Place ...
Wednesday, 1 November 2006, 11:28 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If ever there was a place for good public relations, it's the "food miles" debate. The Stern report's use of New Zealand kiwifruit as an example of unacceptable food miles was wholly mistaken - our kiwifruit is shipped, not flown, to Europe, making ... More >>
Public Address 31/10/06 - Forthright Responses
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 3:56 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I welcome Jim Evans' article, because I believe it – wittingly or otherwise – confirms the two major planks of my argument. First, I argued the Auditor-General applied a definition of 'electioneering' that no-one involved in the Parliamentary ... More >>
Public Address 30/11/06 - That's A Nice Metaphor
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 11:49 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Nice to see the Prime Minister adopt my referee metaphor in reference to the election spending debacle at Labour's conference over the weekend. As she somewhat belatedly says, you might disagree with the ref's call, but you accept it and get on with the ... More >>
Public Address 27/10/06 - If You Hum It ...
Friday, 27 October 2006, 2:41 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Okay, I can't hear the mysterious Auckland hum. Too much rock 'n' roll, probably. But whatever bedevils the residents of the North Shore has many precedents. The hum has been heard in Vancouver, Albuquerque and, well, lots of places... More >>
Public Address 25/10/06 - Totally Tripped Out
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 11:00 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I forgot to mention yesterday that Frontseat's Greatest Line in Kiwi Film vote is a bl**dy swizz. I say this because I was a judge, and none of my fellow judges - not one! - agreed with me that this line, from Goodbye Pork Pie, is in fact... More >>
Public Address 26/10/06 - Grandstand Special
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 12:35 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Most of us can probably agree that Annette Presley is annoying. Having sat next to her on live television, I can personally report to that effect. And Bob Jones' tirade against her to Graeme Hill on Radio Live (now showing on YouTube) is shockingly funny... More >>
Public Address 24/10/06 - Wind And Sunlight
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 3:07 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In the ongoing debate over the proper drinking age, I have repeatedly heard and read explanations why what seems to me a reasonable solution - fixing an age of 20 for purchase of liquor for consumption off the premises, and 18 for purchase and consumption ... More >>
Public Address 20/10/06 - All The Bad Words
Friday, 20 October 2006, 11:08 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I really can't pick tomorrow night's Air New Zealand Cup final, but I'll tell you one thing for free: if the commentary is as bad as it was during last Friday's Auckland-Wellington semi, well … actually nothing will happen, because a knowledge of the rules and ... More >>
Public Address 19/10/06 - Astroturf Update
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 2:49 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
When I got up on Monday I didn't expect to spend most of the week writing about breast cancer and Herceptin, but this story, which appeared yesterday in the Guardian, cannot go unremarked... More >>
