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Public Address 27/03/09 - Can We Dump Raw Sh**
Friday, 27 March 2009, 5:14 pm | Public Address
NOTE: If you wish to object to this application then you have to act by 5 pm TODAY (27th March 2009). Visit this link to make an on-line submission (it takes about ten minutes). I've been living next to the Avon River in Christchurch for twelve... More >>
Public Address 27/03/09 - TiVo and some tunes
Friday, 27 March 2009, 5:00 pm | Public Address
I'm more impressed with TVNZ's TiVo investment than I expected to be. If it works out, the broadcaster's $8.9 million for a one-third share of the regional TiVo licence-holder, Hybrid Television (Australia's Cahnnel Seven holds the remainder) will look like ... More >>
Public Address 25/03/09 - Helen's New Job
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 11:38 am | Public Address
The Trans-Tasman Political Letter is quoting "highly-placed sources" as saying that Helen Clark is to be named as head of the United Nations Development Programme. The full release from Trans-Tasman is posted below. I'm a bit busy preparing for tonight's ... More >>
Public Address 24/03/09 - The Commercial Crunch
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 11:33 am | Public Address
Just a quick heads-up on tomorrow's Media7 recording, in which the main panel will discuss the state of the advertising industry, which is facing two significant challenges: the short-term pressure of the economic crunch, and the longer-term changes being ... More >>
Public Address 23/03/09 - Problems
Monday, 23 March 2009, 1:59 pm | Public Address
Hopes for the presidency of Barack Obama were always bound to be inflated -- he entered office with more ghastly problems on his plate than any president since FDR, and probably more. He is trying deploy a new foreign policy at a time when his economy ... More >>
Public Address 20/03/09 - An IV with the Minister
Friday, 20 March 2009, 2:16 pm | Public Address
After the Charter | Mar 20, 2009 09:31 Russell Brown's Hard News Last night's Media7, featuring the Minister of Broadcasting, Jonathan Coleman, interviewed one-on-one and then as part of a panel, is up for viewing now on TVNZ ondemand. I think it's ... More >>
Public Address 19/03/09 - Post St Pat's Day Blues
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 3:10 pm | Public Address
ReEntry IV: Hills, Harbour and the Dominion Post | Mar 19, 2009 10:21 GUEST: Daniel Kalderimis on coming home I had big plans for how it would be driving back into Wellington. I imagined tearing down the Ngauranga Gorge, fighting its counter-slanting incline, ... More >>
Public Address 18/03/09 - You wouldn't read about
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 1:34 pm | Public Address
The family experienced Ray Lee's Siren at MOTAT yesterday evening. I thought it might be interesting for our two aspie teenagers to be amongst art made of sound and light. And it was, although not necessarily in a good way. The younger boy didn't really ... More >>
Public Address 17/03/09 - No news is good news
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 3:12 pm | Public Address
Anyone who watched an American College movie from the 1980s knows that human beings can be separated into two clear sub-species: Jocks and Nerds. And much like Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens these two tribes tend to "get it on 'cause they don't get along". ... More >>
Public Address 16/03/09 - Wrong. Wronger.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 11:15 am | Public Address
Today, on what would have been his birthday, NZ On Screen has opened a tribute to the screen work of the late Kevin Smith. It's been a good project: because of who Kev was, people have been keen to help -- the excerpts of his films and TV... http://publicaddress.net/5757 More >>
Public Address 13/03/09 - Funky Seaside
Friday, 13 March 2009, 3:08 pm | Public Address
A few days ago, someone asked me what I thought about republishing Funky Seaside Village, the personal essay I wrote for Metro magazine in 2001. I have always felt good about the essay -- it helped me crystalise many thoughts about who and where ... More >>
Public Address 10/03/09 - Memorandum to NZ
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 10:32 am | Public Address
You don't often hear from us. I'm one of the people who manages the machine that digests forms and sends out cheques (and takes your money, of course). The reason you don't hear from us much is because we aren't allowed to talk to you much. We're ... More >>
Public Address 06/03/09 - Friday Media Bag
Friday, 6 March 2009, 2:31 pm | Public Address
Oddly enough, someone asked me yesterday: "Do you know what's happening with the Agenda replacement?" And I said "No." Even when Damian Christie mentioned later that he had a gig with "the new Paul Holmes show" I didn't twig. Well, it's out now: Q ... More >>
Public Address 04/03/09 - Mac Ouch
Wednesday, 4 March 2009, 11:46 am | Public Address
As if we don't have enough computers in our house, I'd been eyeing up the new Mac mini as tidbits fed out via the fan sites. It has just been officially announced. I think I'll leave it. Welcome to the world of the US49 cent Kiwi dollar …... More >>
Public Address 03/03/09 Self-satisfactorily Yours
Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 8:43 pm | Public Address
Self-satisfactorily Yours | Mar 03, 2009 09:46 Russell Brown's Hard News I presume there are a few Herald folk a little embarrassed that their paper has chosen to give front-page space to the quasi-literate account of another paper's gossip columnist ... More >>
Public Address 25/02/09 - No Depression in the Spa
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 3:46 pm | Public Address
Safari 4 beta: seriously quick | Feb 25, 2009 10:46 Russell Brown's Hard News Javascript, declared Bruce Sterling at Webstock last week, is "the duct tape of the web". He then pooped on his own aphorism by declaring that Javascript was invented by Sun ... More >>
Public Address 24/02/09 - Surviving Small
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 12:57 pm | Public Address
This week's Media7 has two themes. One is media coverage -- or the lack of it -- of the trade union movement, for which we'll be joined by Ken Douglas, Laila Harre and Graeme Hunt, and the other is chequebook journalism in the wake of the Alfie ... More >>
Public Address 19/02/09 - High Noon
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 1:03 pm | Public Address
High Noon | Feb 19, 2009 07:23 Russell Brown's Hard News Public Address reader Mark Harris has a fascinating blog post on the progress of Section 92A of the Copyright Act. He notes the way that it was restored to the amendment bill after being deleted ... More >>
Public Address 18/02/09 - Blackout Bingo!
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 10:43 am | Public Address
The Guardian has a story (one of quite a few on the wires) on New Zealand's Internet Blackout protest against Section 92(A) of the Copyright Act. The Blackout fun continues this morning with the release of The Copywrong Song under a Creative Commons licence... More >>
Public Address 10/02/09 - Nerd Dad
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 1:04 pm | Public Address
Well, we're ready. You may now RSVP online for The Orcon Great Blend on Saturday February 21 in Auckland. The event features an onstage interview by Russell Brown with author and futurist Bruce Sterling and his multi-talented wife Jasmina Tesanovic ... More >>
