Posts by Simon Lyall
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Hard News: Decision 2014: Where to watch…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
They need to get out and understand what people in my electorate (Roskill) were actually trying to say when they voted for Goff but against Labour. There is a message there that Cunliffe and the party leadership is not hearing.
I really wouldn't read too much into the local votes. In most electorates it makes no real difference as they are pretty safe. In most cases the Labour and National candidates will attract most of the minor party voters not Labour supporters voting for the Labour candidate and then another party.
I'm in Mt Roskill too and I knew that Goff was always going to win no matter who I voted for. I was even joking with people I'd vote for Minto.
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I personally favour the ability to order my party vote, so if my first choice doesn't make the threshold my vote can be transfered to a party that does.
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Seriously Christchurch people. Next time you open your mouths try and talk for more than a minute without saying how much you hate Auckland(ers) and Wellington(ians).
This happened with the "Hope and Wire" thread. Constant complaining about "Wellington" crews, "Auckland-based" actors and the like telling "our" story.
The average person who lives in the North Island isn't responsible for your house not being fixed or insurance not being paid so stop talking like we are.
'Bloody Aucklanders don't care about Christchurch' is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to BenWilson,
Can anyone else here claim an active 18 year old email address?
Hotmail wasn't founded till mid-1996 so your email address probably isn't quite 18.
I got my domain in mid-1995 so my email address is 18 and a half.
However there are people at Waikato University that have had the same email address since at least 1989 so they win.
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Not exactly a mashup but The Orb's version of Hotel California:
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Hard News: How a thing happens, in reply to Pete Wobh,
Adding up the total NZ Blog stats shows perhaps 6 million page views (Whale Oil is up 1.5 million from September, probably due to Len Brown) and if we add in Public Address and a few other uncounted NZ-orientated blogs then I guess we might get to 8-10 million pageviews a month acroos the “NZ Blogosphere”.
By contrast the advertising departments for the various major sites list:
Herald: 15 million pageviews/week
Stuff: 17 million pageviews/week
TV3: 3.9 million pageviews/week
TVNZ: 4 million pageviews/weekeg 40 million page views per week or 160 million pageviews per month.
In other words the main mainstream sites get 15 to 20 times the traffic of the NZ Blogosphere.
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Recent article some might not have seen, seems legit:
That’s not autism: It’s simply a brainy, introverted boy
Excerpted from "Back to Normal: Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder"
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Hard News: Changing news, in reply to Russell Brown,
That's the official public name of the institution, though.
Actually it is a marketing name. The legal name is "Auckland University of Technology" as they themselves state on their about page and it is also on the The New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee website
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Well I'm sure the news media will be quick to point out that the Copyright act explicitly allows them to copy certain works for "fair dealing":
Criticism, review, and news reporting
(1) Fair dealing with a work for the purposes of criticism or review, of that or another work or of a performance of a work, does not infringe copyright in the work if such fair dealing is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement.
(2) Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of reporting current events by means of a sound recording, film, or communication work does not infringe copyright in the work.
(3) Fair dealing with a work (other than a photograph) for the purposes of reporting current events by any means other than those referred to in subsection (2) does not infringe copyright in the work if such fair dealing is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement.
Although I'm not a lawyer so I don't understand exactly what section 2 and 3 mean (especially the blanket exclusion of photographs). Also since blogs and news websites keep articles up forever it might be argued that they are no longer "current events".
Either way if you photograph somebody famous drunk and semi-undressed one evening then call the tabloid media to try and sell it before you post it online.
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Couldn't find the "techno" version but this is pretty good:
"My Heart will go on" - Drunk Russian version.