Posts by Russell Brown
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I'd love to continue the conversation but I have returned from my travels to what appears to be a logic board failure on my main computer.
Repaired disk damage with Disk Warrior (seven hours!) and now have it started up in Firewire target disk mode and am conducting the lengthy but merciful process of a full backup (hadn't done one for a while because I kept getting directory errors when I tried), after which I will take it into the shop and hope I qualify for a free replacement under Apple's extended warranty scheme.
You may feel sorry for me. And I think I will now watch the test match again ...
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I thought that (page 2 post) was something you made up, a story, not the bitterness of an 8yr old held onto for 50years.
Sorry, I don't understand your reaction either. It was an interesting anecdote. Jeez ...
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Must invite you round on laundry day - fun, fun, fun. :)
Have you thought about applying for a grant for that? ;-)
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Choice.
All they need is for someone to report it for breaching YouTube community guidelines.
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Only hope there's some truth to the rumours that Helfer and Lucy Lawless get a nice juicy plotline as BSG comes to a close...
Phwoar!
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'6' & '7'? it's digital TV for heaven's sake, not that clunky rotary dial on the side of the old black and white TV. Don't they know on digital TV are now allowed to use letters, even more than one at a time.
Personally I see it as a massive lack of imagination on someone's part.
I think they took the non-imaginative, KISS route: the two channels are on buttons 6 and 7 respectively on the Freeview remote.
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Sounds like Akamai have a brilliant business - aren't they basically delivering peering under the guise of "delivery optimisation" and charging for it? A P/E of 125 suggests that the market thinks that...
What they do is move content from one edge of the network to the other -- not using internet protocols on the way -- and try and deliver it from the nearest node to its destination. But yeah, as I understand it, if everyone played nice with NZ's national peering network, the effect would be similar.
Telcos really don't understand content. Look at how the technology has been pretty much there for excellent mobile applications for the last 5 years, and what do we have - Vodafone Live - do me a favour!
Yep. I've been covering this sector long enough to have heard Telecom executives pronouncing about "value chains" involving the internet in the early 90s, without apparently really having much idea of what was going on.
The original Xtra home page was a prime example of not getting content: it might have looked great on the sides of buses, but a home page that was exactly the same every single day was supremely sucky from a content point of view.
Now that they're all fizzed up about "quadruple play", they're still ignoring the lessons of the internet. They seem to think they can offer exactly the same video content people can already get on other TV platforms, only probably less reliably and at poorer quality.
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Fair enough, and I'm rather thankful William Gibson was never moved to describe New Zealand as 'Disneyland with the death penalty'. :) But I just wonder if (as you put it) "creative industries rhetoric" misses the point too, though without the funny-peculiar comic relief of Creative Community Singapore. You don't have to trigger Godwin's Law to just cringe a little at the memory of Tony Blair's 'Cool Britannia' cocktail parties, or every time Helen Clark craps on about creative industries being an engine of economic transformation or fostering a sense of national identity in partnership with government.
And yet even Singapore, which surely ranks as the opposite of of Richard Florida's "creative city" exemplar, is now feeling the need to get itself a creative class. I'm not qualified to pronounce on the merits of his economic theory (and some people think it's tosh), but it seems clear enough that places with a reasonable stock of bohemians, artists and poofs are more interesting places to live.
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I want to reach for a gun when any government tries to reduce 'creativity' to a nice, shiny marketable brand is quite another question. The folks at Creative New Zealand, the New Zealand Film Commission, and New Zealand on Air may well be a little more enthusiastic for the notion.
Most western countries have some sort of creative indistries rhetoric. Buit's a bit different here. It's not like New Zealand's arts hippies have to be ordered to go forth and be creative. (You half expect the announcment of an official creativity target - 15% more creative in 2007!) And Helen hasn't quite got to the stage of issuing "prime directives" ...
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I had a look at a Singapore government creativity website. It seems like the National Party's wet dream of what an arts/creativity policy would be. Must... generate... income.
Actually I think that's a bit unfair to Chris Finlayson.
But from that site:
For decades, Singapore’s prosperity has been accredited to the investment-led economy, focusing primarily on manufacturing and service industries. To reinvigorate Singapore as an innovation-fuelled economy, a prime directive has been issued to cultivate the landscape with imagination, creativity and knowledge. Multi-dimensional creativity - artistic creativity, business entrepreneurship and technological innovation - will be the new currency of success.
Worldwide, the creative cluster (arts and culture, design and media) has been observed to be among the fastest growing sectors of developed economies such as the UK and the US. Creative industries not only contribute towards the economy directly, they also have a powerful, indirect impact on the rest of the economy - by adding style, aesthetics and freshness to differentiate products and services. Singapore must tap on the creative cluster (arts and culture, design, media) to flourish, and recognise it as one of the vanguards of economic growth.
Prime Directive: y'know, like in Robocop.
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