Posts by Mark Harris
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I wouldn't want threading, but a parent link which gave you the post you was replying to might be useful (or would have been on the Thread that Wouldn't Die, but we don't often get to those lengths). Maybe a popup (ugh) like those horrible preview boxes that leap up when you roll over a link (Is it Snap.com?) only you have to click on the link rather than just roll over.
On FB and Twitter - when I joined FB, I went in both feet, played games (scrabble, mostly), poked, sent gifts etc. Over time (1.5 years) it's dwindled to an occasional email notification. I ignore invitations to zombies, mafia, farming and other time wasters, and maintain it as an outpost for people to find me (LinkedIn and OldFriends are similar).
Twitter, on the other hand, I resisted for a long time ("Who wants to know when Obama has breakfast, FFS?") but finally joined a few months ago.
I have barely looked at my RSS feeds since. Most of the feeds I read have Twitter ids and I get the info in almost real-time. It can be a huge timesink, especially when you pick up 85 links and read your way through, but no more so than RSS. And the social aspect is fun ;-)
Russ, one improvement could be to allow people to add their Twitter (or identi.ca) name to their profile, like we do with email and websites.
Mines @nzlemming BTW
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Thanks to thouse who have explained this "increased productivity" thin so clearly. I've been puzzling over it for a few days, every time it gets mentioned on Morning Report.
"Increased productivity is just more output for the same input"
So this is like saying the car will go farther and faster on the same amount of petrol, yes?
Even with my limited knowledge of auto-mechanics, I believe that you need a qualified mechanic to tune your car to perfection, investment in new filters, carburettor, spark plugs and whatnot, good tyres and alignment, among other things, to make that happen. Plus you need good driving skills and habits.
Why would anyone believe that Brash is the man that could make this happen. With his stewardship of the Reserve Bank, isn't he one of the drivers that got us in this mess?
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That vid from ABC - is that the smell of denial? At least, from Mr David Simon, of unverified fear. It's the same as the copyright argument - "Change is bad, fear change" "We're not making as much money as we did, so someone must be blamed. It's the damn bloggers!".
There's a place for news - of course there is. But it won't be your grandfather's newspaper. The businesses that recognise this and adapt their business models will survive - the others won't.
I'm not advocating that one is better than the other, I'm merely acknowledging the situation. What the media barons think of as the status quo is not any more. But rather than recognise that they have to change to survive, they're calling on Governments to regulate, they're putting up paywalls, they're blaming everyone but themselves and their short-term-profit-focus that's brought them to this point.
Good luck with that.
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Why thank you. ::blushes::
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Doesn't this apply to everything off the internet as well? Shouldn't they use the same standards that the censors use in relation to books, magazines, dvds, computer games etc?
They do, as Emma notes, already use different rules for different media, but they use the rules established by the Censor. They don't make up their own rules. And, where there's doubt, they can refer an item to the Censor for a decision.
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**Go ask Alice**
I think she'll know
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bah, stupid quote tags, stupid dyslexic fingers, can I blame Phil Goff too please?
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<quote>You know how it is. Somebody asks to friend you, and you don't have the heart to say no. But then you hear dreadful things about them and you think perhaps I'll un-friend them now>/quote>
When he friended me, I didn't know who he was (true) - I found out and thought I'd let it stand, just to see what use he made of it, sort of an experiment in how the pollies would be using social media. Never heard another word. I deleted him when I heard about the Indian trip.
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Apparently, "The U.S. publishing industry passed a key marker last year, with the publication of more "on-demand" or short-run titles than traditional books, a U.S. company that keeps publishing statistics says.", which I think is a pretty significant milestone.
YMMV
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Actually, what the ad says most is "Auckland: not a 24 hour town"