Posts by Stephen Judd
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I've been mulling over what to do when the car finally dies and I think an electric cargo bike might be the perfect answer. I don't want an ebike for commuting, because I need the incidental exercise, but I do want something that makes a big load manageable over distance. Of course Christchurch being largely flat makes a difference too.
Having said that, lots of e-bike shops nowadays I notice. I hear one of the biggest groups of customers is people who've lost their license and need to get to work.
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to oga,
Living overseas and consuming news through the respective iPhone apps for Stuff & NZHerald, I frequently wondered whether that was seriously the news for the day,. It's really hard to see new news if you're using the app.
Suggestion: use a feed reader like Feedly and subscribe to the relevant RSS feeds.
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to st ephen,
(I do know an artist who thinks that if it's OK to say "Let horse = x", you might just as well say "Let x = +").
Maybe your artist has been studying the lambda calculus and knows that arithmetic operations are just functions that themselves can be terms...
[update] Goddamit I just saw Rich beat me to it and won the nerd-off.
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Earlier, from James Hawthorne: (in whale oil comments)
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to James Hawthorne,
Outbrain is actually an Israeli owned company. And oddly enough, a very large amount of the International media are controlled by Israeli businessmen – Howard Marks would be one good example – an Israeli/ American billionaire who controls Media Works via his Oaktree Investment Fund. The agenda is very clear, and global, buy up and control the media and dumb it down. And no doubt make sure the reporting on the illegal wars and genocide in the Middle East is not being covered, not least the ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
As always, it's the Jews' fault.
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to Nik Dirga,
For sure, quality is a precondition for successful paywall.
Anecdata: my Dad, 78, told me a few weeks ago he now subscribes to Washington Post online. He was tired of the thin world news coverage in the Herald, and is very interested in the US elections, so he figured he could cut down his Herald purchasing to just Wednesdays and Saturdays and spend the savings on the WaPo sub...
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Incidentally I read on the weekend that for the first time in many years, perhaps ever, the NYT now gets more revenue from subscriptions than from advertising. While those subscriptions are still mostly print, this strikes me as yet more evidence that the paywalls are a-coming generally.
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Am thinking back to the early days of newspapers getting online. People warned then of the dangers of giving the news away for free, but the lure of modernity was too strong. Interesting to ponder what would have happened if those people had won or at least held the line for a few years longer.
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to Alfie,
I’d like to point out one despicable example from Sunday’s ODT. The Herald ran this story written by my friend Phil Vine.
Pretty sure that's operator error. I believe ODT syndicates stories from the Herald (note the credit at the bottom of the ODT story).
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
By "news generated", do you mean "newsworthy things happening", or "newsworthy things written up into stories"?
I meant that for whatever reason, not enough local stories are produced. Both the options you suggest are reasons, I think. We're a small country, so important dramas are sporadic; meanwhile there aren't enough people to write the kind of news that needs people to go out and get it.