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Public Address 02/07/10 - Four for Friday
Friday, 2 July 2010, 2:01 pm | Public Address
As ever, I'm not inclined to be too terribly serious on a Friday – read further down for a cat video -- but do please allow me to commend to you last night's Media7 discussion about the origin and backdrop to the PEDA funding controversy. I think ... More >>
Public Address 01/07/10 - KICK IT! Quartered
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 2:41 pm | Public Address
A World Cup quarter final almost seems an unseemly place to be visiting the spectacle of Netherlands vs. Brazil or Argentina vs. Germany. These games have the ring of semi-finals or even a final about them, but the quarters? Brazil are starting to ... More >>
Public Address 30/06/10 - Who comes to PA?
Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 4:28 pm | Public Address
Public Address: Technical Profile | Jun 30, 2010 10:56 Russell Brown's Hard News This month, Public Address has received 58,493 times more visits from users on Windows than users on SunOS*. This isn't surprising, just a fact. More interesting is the ... More >>
Public Address 28/06/10 - Gushing for Auckland
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 11:32 am | Public Address
More than most election campaigns, the race to be the founding mayor of Super Auckland is already becoming about the advisers of the two leading candidates trying to stop their men saying anything stupid. John Banks' team, mindful of his long history of ... More >>
Public Address 16/06/10 - Clover It
Thursday, 17 June 2010, 12:39 am | Public Address
Back when the debate over genetic modification was at its most furious political, I ventured that at some point the Green Party would be confronted by a GM technology whose environmental benefits were so compelling that its blanket opposition to the ... More >>
Public Address 11/06/10 - Every Four Years
Friday, 11 June 2010, 8:12 pm | Public Address
In this job, an MP once told me, you balance your chequebook and keep your transactions squeaky clean. That was Judith Tizard. Yes, the same Judith Tizard who, we now know, bought a bottle of Bollinger on her ministerial credit card at an "upmarket" restaurant ... More >>
Public Address 09/06/10 - Standing With Poo
Wednesday, 9 June 2010, 3:26 pm | Public Address
Readers who recall A Taxonomy of Poo will know that I'm no great fan of the local branch of Randian/Objectivist cult, except in the sense that one might enjoy an unfortunate spectacle in which one is not involved. But I feel obliged to declare some solidarity ... More >>
Public Address 24/05/10 - Paul Reynolds
Monday, 24 May 2010, 1:15 pm | Public Address
Paul Reynolds, internet developer, commentator and catalyst, died suddenly yesterday morning. He would have understood and approved of the way the sad news spread – via Twitter, Facebook and old-fashioned email. His friend Bill Ralston made the announcement ... More >>
Public Address 21/05/10 - Lost on Budget Island
Friday, 21 May 2010, 12:46 pm | Public Address
You'll forgive me for not providing detailed analysis of yesterday's Budget today. I am struck down with a virus: possibly Afghan flu. My short version: like it or not, it's coherent. I'm relieved to see something that appears to have been the result ... More >>
Public Address 14/05/10 - 2010: The Cultural Year
Friday, 14 May 2010, 1:34 pm | Public Address
As we approach half-time, what's your take on The Culture in 2010? Writing, screen, music, art and language? Share your best, worst and most thoroughly meta. More >>
Public Address 11/05/10 - Dressing for "Success"
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 7:03 pm | Public Address
The Up Front Guide: Dressing for "Success" | May 11, 2010 13:07 Emma Hart is just kidding, okay? During the discussion over Boobquake, something struck me, something I'd never really been fully aware of before. As we all know, women signal ... More >>
Public Address 04/05/10 - Astrotobacco
Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 7:49 pm | Public Address
Metro's 2010 restaurant guide, and associated Restaurant of the Year Awards, has coincidentally turned up at just the right time for the Media7 show on critics – of restaurants, music, comedy, whatever – that we'd been planning for a while. ... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 28/04/10 - Dude, what just happened
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 1:19 pm | Public Address
Hands in the Middle.... | Apr 28, 2010 09:40 Damian Christie - Cracker With Attitude Of all the reported recommendations in the Law Commission's report 'Alcohol in Our Lives', the one that has passed with least comment to date is the idea that licensed ... More >>
Public Address 26/04/10 - Boobquake Day
Monday, 26 April 2010, 1:01 pm | Public Address
And now that I have your attention, let's talk about boobs. There may still be, in some remote corners of the country, people who aren't aware that tomorrow is Boobquake Day. Briefly, this event was sparked by the comments of a senior Iranian cleric that; ... More >>
Public Address 22/04/10 - Problem With Religion
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 8:00 pm | Public Address
Writing a review (of sorts) some four weeks' after a film is released might seem a little redundant. It might seem even more redundant when the film in question has already become the most successful New Zealand comedy film of all time âEUR" although ... More >>
Public Address 20/04/10 - Climate science & media
Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 11:43 am | Public Address
Climate science and the media | Apr 20, 2010 11:17 Russell Brown's Hard News We have quite a show for you on Media7 this week. We're looking at climate change and the media, and I'll be speaking to Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister's ... More >>
Public Address 16/04/10 - Press(ure) Play
Friday, 16 April 2010, 1:53 pm | Public Address
The rights deal for the new MediaWorks C4 spin-off C42 looks interesting. As much as I can decipher it, it means that conventional rights income will not accrue to tracks from Independent Music NZ member companies. But there will be some money, ... More >>
Public Address 15/04/10 - The Cycling Superhighway
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 5:36 pm | Public Address
After the summer we've had, it would have been a cruel irony had it rained on the opening of our new local cycleway today. But the gathering clouds held their peace, and about 50 riders, young and old, got to roll through after the Minister of Transport ... More >>
Public Address 08/04/10 - Touched by the hand
Thursday, 8 April 2010, 1:52 pm | Public Address
I touched an iPad, and I liked it. It's smaller than you think -- although I was somewhat prepared for that after seeing it side-by-side with a Kindle in the brilliantly comprehensive Ars Technica review – and every bit as smooth and quick to use ... More >>
Public Address 07/04/10 - Iraq from the air
Wednesday, 7 April 2010, 7:29 pm | Public Address
Iraq, from the air | Apr 06, 2010 14:35 Keith Ng Wikileaks has released footage from the video gunsight of a US Apache attack helicopter that fired upon and killed a group of people in 2007, including two Reuters journalists. One was wounded in ... More >>
