Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Quoth the raven, 404, dude.
Sorry about that. If you go directly to www.theory.org.uk/
Trading Cards pops up immediately, in the middle of the front page. There is other good stuff too. -
Hang on, who said the top 5% are necessarily privileged?
I thought someone might ask. By being identified as "gifted"
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She said the top, gifted children and the bottom, worst-performing children
What a bloody stupid proposition. So, we will see this top 5% chauffeured to Auckland Grammar and the bottom 20% put on a bus to some already over-crowded school? Why should the already privileged 5% get more privileges?
What bothers me most is that the Maori Party seems to be part of this extremely stupid idea.
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custom+playing+cards
Take a look at what David Gauntlett is offering on his media theory site, at www.theory.org.uk/cards.htm
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they were giving an aggressive positive spin to viewer numbers.
In wake of the Beijing Olympics, there were all kinds of viewing figures being tossed around. I read, variously, of claims of 87% and 94% of the Chinese population tuning into the event. But I couldn't find how such claims were constructed--nor who were the 6% allegedly not tuning in (the deaf, blind and the incarcerated?)
With all such audience claims, I think you need to add a whole bag of salt!
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Sacha: I had a look at Grownups. Scarey stuff about aching heels and bad backs. Not yet quite ready to plunge into that world of mobility scooters and spiritual guides. . Seems more like it is designed for 70+, rather than 50+.
kiwiboomers is more about interesting writing and wry commentaries on the world, without being too grumpy old buggers.
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As local niche sites, what do you make of Grownups compared with Kiwiboomers
Call me ambivalent about the whole notion of kiwiboomers ('kiwibivalent'?), but I do have a lot of time for Paul Smith, who puts the site together. There is something called Grownups? I am not sure whether I qualify for that ;-)
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this very attitude cost us the V8's
You are welcome to have them back! I have never seen the point of such motorsports--except as a means of further reducing dwindling natural resources , and annoying the locals!
As a complete aside (and if anyone is interested), my rather gushy review of the Al Green concert in Auckland last month is now up on kiwiboomers. It got lost for a while, so it is a late review, at http://www.kiwiboomers.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2928&Itemid=72
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Still, the Chiefs tried to play an interesting game, despite the heat, the monsoon, the yahoos in the crowd--and deserved to win. I will reserve opinion on this year's Super 14 until I have seen a few more games.
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The photo spread on the front of the sports section in today's SST
Now you have made me go and dig the SST out of the recycling bin (I hadn't read the sporting section as there would have been no news of the Chiefs Super 14 game in Durban).
Still, it is an interesting question. Do still images such as these have a greater potency (or 'effect') than moving images, in that they can be clipped, stored, revisited, poured over? I have occasionally visited this proposition, when exploring the hoary old 'media effects' debate, using similar press/still images--such as the photo of Kurt Cobain, holding a gun to his chin, which appeared on the front page of the DomPost years ago. All of the attention, in the research literature, is on the moving image (eg counts of 'violent instances'') , with practically nil attention paid to photographs (except in the case of the 'effects' of pornography).
Be interested on other thoughts on this.