But whoever encoded it neglected to fill in the ID tags that would have identified the track [...] and no pirate would be as sloppy with a file as that.

"Every Mistake Imaginable", as they used to say 20 years ago. (Truth be told, plenty of pirates *would* be that...

One, for example, is a 22-year-old commerce student with a history of vandalism and vanity editing on Wikipedia, whose private school clearly taught him little about decent standards of behaviour.

I wonder if he did any of this from his tertiary institute; and thus I wonder if he is breaking...

We're All in This Together: Public Broadcasting in the Digital Age

Hang on, is that a High School Musical reference?

How long was the survey running and what were the dates?

It is a fast moving area – Also Are there any plans to run the same or similar survey again for companrative purposes?

Had a look at the comments on the survey – which suggests it ran between 23 & 30th of July '07 – Is that right?

And BTW – comments are the best part of the survey – thanks

I'd be interested, if you felt like trying again.

as far as music funding goes brendan smyth of nz on air has stated nz on air make no attempt to target and support culturally significance in what they fund.
we do not "make any value judgements about cultural content" (Direct quote from brendan smyth)

I think they got...

Karl Urban is strapping on a stethoscope to play Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the Starship's Enterprise's medical officer, in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" feature for Paramount.

[...]

Abrams has been furiously casting "Trek," with John Cho, Simon...

People...

The discussion paper seems...

Screw the RWC, bugger The Booker here's something to have a patriotic geek-gasm over:

Karl Urban is strapping on a stethoscope to play Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the Starship's Enterprise's medical officer, in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" feature for Paramount.

This is almost as exciting as when Martin Henderson played Britney's...

I don't think I would even want NZoA to make judgements on what is culturally significant or not.

No, me either but I don't want to see 'cultural' dollars being channeled to wipe out our point of difference via the next next piece of commercial radio friendly pap.

it's a...

Karl Urban is strapping on a stethoscope to play Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the Starship's Enterprise's medical officer, in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" feature for Paramount.

Okay, that I _can get excited over (although I'm still disappointed the very brief James Kyson Lee-as-Sulu rumours didn't pan out.)

Karl Urban is strapping on a stethoscope to play Leonard "Bones" McCoy...

Spock = Zachary Quinto! Squee!

Screw the RWC, bugger The Booker here's something to have a patriotic geek-gasm over:

OMG! I was already solidly on board from the Simon Pegg thing, but that's just... genius.

Bones also was responsible for several of "Trek's" catchphases, including "He's dead, Jim" and "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not...

Karl Urban is strapping on a stethoscope to play Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the Starship's Enterprise's medical officer, in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" feature for Paramount.

This is almost as exciting as when Martin Henderson played Britney's boyfriend in the "Toxic" video.

I hope ur not being sarcastic Robyn! :-)

This could...

Brilliant editior of Punch amongst many other things. Still remember him dressing up in Arab costume and standing in the visitor's gallery at the London stock exchange and accepting the insults from the traders on the floor during...

Just pausing to remember Alan Coren, passed away from cancer at 69.

I was checking his Wikipedia entry to see if he was Giles and Victoria's dad (he is), when I saw this:

__On The News Quiz, Coren said that he edited his own entry on Wikipedia every morning just...

Was just laughing this morning. He entitled a book "Golfing for Cats" and put a swastika on the cover after reading that sport, pets and books about the Nazis sold best.

But mostly, NZ On Air has posted We're All in This Together: Public Broadcasting in the Digital Age, a discussion paper I wrote with the assistance of Andrew Dubber.

I finally got around to reading this (in bed this morning, yay).

I found myself most interested in the part about...

Does it create a Feelersization; a welfare state for bands who wouldn't normally work hard enough or be good enough to survive without NZOA?

That's quite a nice way of putting it. And thanks for reading the whole thing.

I can't say what will happen to the ideas in the...

And it's worth reiterating that it was a major label boss who told me that he'd rather use his NZOA funding grant to make a bunch of low-res clips for every track on an album, rather than one clip for TV.

That's assuming incorrectly that the 'quality' of a video...

Does it create a Feelersization; a welfare state for bands who wouldn't normally work hard enough or be good enough to survive without NZOA?

Is it wrong of me to pine for a system that provides grants to non-commercially viable acts — but who are somehow seen to be worth...

Is it wrong of me to pine for a system that provides grants to non-commercially viable acts — but who are somehow seen to be worth something artistically (?) — to help them do things that are only normally available to commercially successful acts — tour, record, release.

apparently it...

Is it wrong of me to pine for a system that provides grants to non-commercially viable acts — but who are somehow seen to be worth something artistically (?) — to help them do things that are only normally available to commercially successful acts — tour, record, release.

It's called...

It's called CreativeNZ. They provide ~$7million for project funding, although this is across all visual and performing arts. There are also a few other funds for more specific purposes.

In a way, the problem with music hasn't changed: it fits neither the creative or the industry boxes.

Creative NZ grants...

Creative NZ grants are essentially for artistic projects... But they don't really suit music industry development.

Absolutely, there are a hella lotta boxes you have to tick for CreativeNZ funding. But there's this subset of quite vocal musicians that complain that NZOA marginalises them because their music is artistic rather...

When I served on one of Creative NZ's funding committees some years back, applications in that category outnumbered available funding by about 12:1. Probably much the same throughout its categories.

Thanks for that. NZOA music video grants are 1 in 4 (170 grants a year, 600+ applicants), although their New...

they hardly ever name-check CreativeNZ as a potential alternative – even to say they applied but were rejected.

I suspect that some of the dudes in this position would like to think that even though NZOA has rejected them for not being commercial enough, that their 10-minute feedback solo/excusion into...

I suspect that some of the dudes in this position would like to think that even though NZOA has rejected them for not being commercial enough, that their 10-minute feedback solo/excusion into sonic chaos does actually have commercial potential, it's just that the dumb-arses at NZOA can't recognise it.

dammit,...

But there's this subset of quite vocal musicians that complain that NZOA marginalises them because their music is artistic rather than commercial,

its not that at all.
its offense at the hijacking and mismanagement of a very good concept with good intentions, and frankly the waste of good taxpayer money...

I suspect that some of the dudes in this position would like to think that even though NZOA has rejected them for not being commercial enough, that their 10-minute feedback solo/excusion into sonic chaos does actually have commercial potential, it's just that the dumb-arses at NZOA can't recognise it.

amusingly...

I do think it's past time they re-evaluated their actual mission.

or got back to it.

dammit, I can't tell if you're joking or not :D

Semi-joking... I think.

Along with Heather, I remember all the discussions on NZmusic.com like, "Waaa! Why did X get funding but my hard-working rock unit didn't!" And the subsequent explanation about NZOA's requirements for a song to have commercial potential...

While the pollies caught by recycled student "humour" could indeed have avoided falling into the trap with a...

While the pollies caught by recycled student "humour" could indeed have avoided falling into the trap with a quick Google search...

My point is that if you'd tried a quick Google search on the question of Wikipedia's accuracy you might not be talking about "Wikipedia articles [being] probably, on average,...

We're talking about how NZ on Air...