Posts by Russell Brown
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Mintshot did leave me scratching my head for a while until I realised that the customers they are trying to hoodwink are your large corporate marketing teams looking for "quantifiable justification".
That makes sense. There's a vibe out there in ad-land that this internet thing is far too complicated and it's safer not to try and differentiate your audiences.
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So it does indeed come down to who has the most time to waste.
And a high tolerance for mindlessness too ...
Then again, pitching a highly-educated high-earning audience hasn't gone so well for us lately, and I've just written a post highly critical of the advertiser we do have this week, so ...
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I'd have signed up already, except vodafone coverage is no good at my place. To have a decent conversation at my house on my mobile I need to go to one side of the house. It gets better if I stick my head out my lounge window. I'll stick with ihug and see how things develop with options over my broadband.
And coverage is the main problem with the offering at the moment. It uses Vodafone's old mobile network, and is thus prone to the same problems -- although we get plenty of signal in Pt Chev. That's why they haven't gone fully national with it yet.
Price if you make a lot of national calls? Brilliant. For me, in the position of interviewing and being interviewed via the phone, the call quality is a showstopper though. I think it's actually worse than my Telecom landline, although I've yet to try it with handsets other than the ones supplied.
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Henry Chellow of the Pt Chevalier Ignite Trust talks about the move in the Auckland suburb to break away from dependence on Telecom broadband and start taking offers from other providers. The trust is considering both wired and wireless solutions, including the possibility of a mesh network.
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Well, sure. Just as I think it was perfectly legitimate to document every anti-Semitic, hate-mongering (but highly photogenic) fucktard who attached themselves to anti-Iraq War protests. All the same, I don't think it would be fair to tar everyone who opposed the War with the same toxic brush, do you?
I wasn't doing that, just observing that it wasn't a great look. Especially compared to the last big hikoi, which did win public sympathy.
Given Sophie's experience as a sympathetic observer, it wasn't too flash on the ground either.
And I'm serious about the Tainui thing. Tame Iti has already ruffled a few feathers with his letter to the Tuwharetoa Maori King, and reducing Sir Robert Mahuta's daughter to tears won't go down too well with another powerful iwi. Ithink the Tuhoe leadership might get uncomfortable with this.
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With the Xtra deal, I assume that Yahoo pays Telecom to be set up as the default portal for their customers?
The promise of the joint venture was that there was going to be lots of lovely advertising loot via the YahooXtra portal. For various reasons (read the column I linked to) it hasn't worked out that way. Theresa Gattung left Paul Reynolds a real stinker.
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As portrayed in the TV pictures, the hikoi participants looked like a rabble. If they were looking to win public support for their grievances, it backfired pretty badly.
And I don't think Tainui are going to be too impressed at the way Nanaia Mahuta was humiliated either.
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Quite. I was at that Jan '96 gig and Sonic Youth were outstanding, far better than those chronic dullards the Foo Fighters who were the main support act (local skronk act White-Winged Moth were on first). Sonic Youth rocked, then finished with a full-on, 20-min version of 'Diamond Sea' with the most intense strobe lights through-out.
I was there, and you're right, they knocked the Foo Fighter power-pop tosh into a cocked hat. And that version of 'Diamond Sea' was monumental.
But Venetia might be right too. I saw their next Auckland show, at the Town Hall, and got so bored that I left. Although Philip Matthews pretty much saw God according to his review in the Listener.
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As a woman I feel a little intimidated by this mostly male thread, but I just had to pipe up when I read of Kracklites anger...
Hey, Deborah was here. And she sort of swore!
My heart just sank. Like, to the depths of my bowels. I didn't need a fortune teller to tell me that these guys were going to have issues with their public image.
And that's a really interesting thing you say ...
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Thanks. Actually, I've always thought that goths had more class than emos - more sensuality, a more refined exuberance.
You're just old.
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