Posts by Russell Brown
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I love you and your girlfriend.
Stephen, this really isn't that sort of website.
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Russell Brown discusses the state of play in independent web publishing with Ana Samways and Steven Shaw of Spare Room and Rachel and Regan Cunliffe of the sprawling TV fansite Throng.
Part one of this discussion is here
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Russell Brown discusses the state of play in independent web publishing with Ana Samways and Steven Shaw of Spare Room and Rachel and Regan Cunliffe of the sprawling TV fansite Throng.
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Craig surveys the ducking and diving around the Dalai Lama's visit to Wellington.
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David Slack interviews the best band in the world, apparently.
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I'll let the music do the talking
Oh no, that's never going to do. What's the point of posting under a pseudonym if you can't spill?
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heh heh - good for you (I mean that). I consider myself fairly liberal, except when it comes to business/money. At which point I become very defensive of my stash. (I was sending emails to parents & friends warning against Bridgecorp 12 months ago)
I didn't bother kicking up a fuss when Sir Humphreys took our RSS feed on their site and ran comments under our posts (although the content of the first comments thread did quickly become vile and offensive, and I made my feelings clear about that) - I just waited for it to die.
I guess I come from a place where being the subject of a knockoff or parody signals some sort of cultural arrival. And even if someone launched something with a clearly similar name, they wouldn't have our lineup.
Although I guess they could have David Slick, Keith Thing, Seeming Mock and Jesus Christie ...
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This month, it's jobs: the first, the worst, the best,the weirdest, the simply memorable. You may change names to protect the guilty, but don't hold back on the anecdotes. Personal grievances will have to be filed separately.
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Had another look this arvo - I didn't want to stare but they looked (from about 5 feet away) to be HK MP5's or 10's to me... scary, interesting tho'.
I have no idea of what brand of automatic weapon the uniformed infants stalking around Changi airport in Singapore were holding, but they certainly freaked me out. I prefer my weapon-wielding airport soldiers to look old enough to shave. And the schoolboy scowling and wearing mirror shades with his hand on the trigger of his gun was just out of order.
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This is why McD's jump on anyone trying to use the name McDonald. A Trademark is only as good as the funds you have to protect it, which is why trademark lawyers love it. Any battle is usually won by the one with the deepest pockets because the litigation lasts for years.
And this doesn't strike you as somehow wrong?
McDonald's does "jump on" unfortunate people of Scottish descent (including the actual Ronald McDonald) and even people daring to use the "Mc" prefix, but fortunately
it doesn't always win.Not sure what happened with Starbucks' foul attempt to claim exclusive use of the term "doubleshot":
http://www.doubleshotcoffee.com/blog/2006/04/coffee.html
Your latter comment makes me wonder how you would feel if someone usurped your blog; started one called -- say -- Public Redress but insisted it was not about politics, it was about citizens being able to express their dissatisfaction with whatever is bugging them. (yeh yeh, I know: you're only a 'small' site yourself - but imagine how you'd feel if you built this site up to something big in 10 years and then Public Redress popped up)
I honestly can't see why I'd care.
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