Hard News: For want of some purpose
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Steve Parks, in reply to
It's okay, don't worry. I'm fine.
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Steve Parks, in reply to
Alright, more seriously, it was a longish rolling kinda quake. Little to no damage from what I can gather. Mag 7 but really deep. No tsunami danger.
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Felt that in Chch- long and rumbly but minor, like a truck driving past. And a small aftershock 15-20 mins later. Sounds like it was very deep, and off-shore. Hope Wanganui is ok!
Simon has given a good, measured account of himself there.
It may be measured, but it doesn’t really pass the logic test. At all.Pwned- with passion, precision and clarity. Now that's rare :)
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Kinda depressing that it's my go to station when I can't recall being interested in a single thing it advertises in about a decade. And I'm probably starting to fall into their target age market as well. :(
What about good old Radio NZ?
And that North Island quake was a long one... but no damage so far.
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What the hell! I'm watching the Tour de France on TV now and the commentator has just said he's heard about a 6.5 Earthquake in Wellington and hopes everybody is alright. Talk about the information age.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Felt that in Chch...
ditto, but it went on for a while I thought, with lotsa creaking and slow shifting beforehand and then the visceral kicker which made the house feel like it was adrift and being slowly and jerkily eddied about, the 'aftershock' (11.07pm-ish) I think was based here (off Brighton)...
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Nicely described, to which I'd only add that it didn't feel like, you know, one of ours.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
I may get Freeview – but it is uncertain the service is available in the wopwops.
Terrestrial Freeview may be a no-go but if you have a Sky dish all you need is a Freeview satellite box, same satellite (Optus D1).
I too have ditched Sky but they keep sending me bills and refusing to accept I cancelled. Am I liable for those bills if I can't prove I cancelled?. -
Hebe, in reply to
Nicely described, to which I’d only add that it didn’t feel like, you know, one of ours.
Well put Ian and Joe. The sway and rock was insistent here, so much so I thought it was going to be bad for Wellington or Kaikoura. P or S waves or something -- horizontal not the vertical smash of February 22 (my large heavy dining table jumped from hip level to shoulder height then; no pre-shake just crash smash up and down). I was 2km from that epicentre and learned that shaking and rolling means you are further away from the epicentre. Just thought you'd like to know....therapy moment over.
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The latest Save TVNZ7 email has just arrived, with an interesting statistic - their online petition had 36,155 signatures but their Facebook page only has 9,603 thingys (unspecified).
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"When, long before Media7 was conceived, I suggested that back-catalogue episodes of Horizon (which remain very popular on the torrents)"
...and there's the answer right there. When broadcast TV fails to meet the needs of the viewers, they find the content elsewhere. The choices of TV programmers are increasingly out of sync with what people really want to watch - just look at the top torrents, top youtube clips or compare what classifies as (push) TV news compared with reddit (pull). people want science news and cat pictures, not murders and celebrities (although I must admit, "celebrity murders" would probably get me to tune in, out of a grim fascination with the vile depths of broadcast TV) .
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Myles Thomas, in reply to
One possible reason they target youth is that youth are more likely to be sucked into buying stuff because they see an ad for it. Maturity brings the ability to ignore the voice that demands you to 'buy!'
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Maturity brings the ability to ignore the voice that demands you to ‘buy!’
True but the business model of broadcast TV means that the viewer is no longer the customer, they are the product and advertisers are the client. It's a mixed up crazy old world we live in, the more mature you are, the less people listen.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
True but the business model of broadcast TV means that the viewer is no longer the customer, they are the product and advertisers are the client. It’s a mixed up crazy old world we live in, the more mature you are, the less people listen.
TV quickly displaced radio. And I desperately want to agree with the likes of Bruce Simpson, but right now the Internet is struggling to do the same with TV, despite being the next logical step.
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merc,
Interesting,
Under proposals announced by Rupert Murdoch News Corporation is to be split into two operations.
One will be focused on newspapers and one on entertainment.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10817689
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Sacha, in reply to
right now the Internet is struggling to do the same with TV, despite being the next logical step
.. because of the existing industry fighting hard to defend its model
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
because of the existing industry fighting hard to defend its model
And I've made the first start by refusing to subscribe to SKY(NET). Now if we can convince enough people to do the same...
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