Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Julian Melville,
Basically, they’re not MP3 or FLAC files. I’ve still got devices round here that don’t know what an M4A is, but can play any old MP3 you throw at them. There’s nothing about an M4A that makes it better than an MP3 file, so there’s no reason to like them.
Otoh, pretty much everyone else has an iPod that does play M4As and doesn't play FLAC files. Leo plays M4As in WinAmp on his PC.
I'm often surprised at the lack of support for M4A/AAC files in TV-DVD-type devices though. Surely, given that the lion's share of digital sales rests with iTunes, you'd support that format?
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Emma Hart,
I keep expecting you to say where you get your porn from ;-)
FWIW, Indie Nudes leads to a cornucopia of alt/indie/amateur, arty porn and porny art. NSFW, obviously.
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Hard News: " To prostitute yourself to…, in reply to Steve Curtis,
A debt owed to Murdoch ?
I suppose thats one way of putting it, when you havent quite paid it all off
Even Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has freely acknowledged the debt the rest of Fleet Street owes Murdoch for forcing technological change in the 1980s. He had to break the print unions to do it, and that got nasty – but those unions were hurting both publishers and readers by refusing to migrate from hot-metal and linotype print presses to electronic composition. Britain was already years behind in production processes by the time things changed.
Things happened differently here. When I started at the Christchurch Star in 1981, the paper had just moved to electronic composition, via a bank of fridge-sized computers. INL had negotiated with the unions and retrained workers where necessary. It was cleaner, better work and it created a much better product.
I was shocked when I went to London in 1986. I’d been entering and marking up copy at Rip It Up on a little CP/M computer for two years. In Britain, when I did casual subbing for music mags, it was typed, sent to the typesetters on a motorcycle courier, fetched back as galleys on a motorcycle courier, corrected, then sent back to the typesetters on a cycle courier. Fuck knows what happened to it after that.
Of course, as Gavin Ellis noted on the show, that doesn't make up for all the bad things Murdoch did.
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Carol Green,
I get some magazines issues from Zinio, works nicely on iPad but can also access them on my laptop. Cheaper than the print versions and I don’t end with a big stack of mags that I don’t know what to do with.
I subscribed to Harpers via Zinio for a while, but I got pissed off with the fact that it's all just A4 PDFs of the print version, which aren't actually that easy to read.
But what I can wholeheartedly recommend is print subs to the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. They're cheap (VF is $5 to $6 an issue) and you can enter your subscriber number at iTunes and get the tablet versions into the bargain. If only Entertainment Weekly did the same ...
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to John Armstrong,
I really am a techno turkey. I’ll try this:
You didn’t actually put a link in there. Fixed it for you now.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,
Many thanks to Jackson for setting this up. I’m delighted to be able to show people some Chch things they may not be seeing in the media. There’s a lot going on here, of all sorts!
And I hope others will post their own words and pictures about the Christchurch they’re living in.
This post has made my day. Thanks, Lilith, Gudrun and Jackson. Thanks.
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Muse: Postcard from Cologne: Willst Du…, in reply to jb,
Sarah Lark
Born Christiane Gohl 1958 in Bochum.
Aka Ricarda Jordan and Elisabeth Rotenberg. Studied history and literature (Ph.D) Worked as a journalist, advertising copywriter and tour guide. Which is how she fell in lurv with NZ "magically drawn to its magical countryside" (that's what it says here, anyway) and started writing historical romantic novels based there. Writes horsey books for children and young adults. Lives in Spain, operates a small stud farm.It sounds like she must be doing very well. Cracking the horsey-book market is profitable (look at Stacey Gregg) -- her also having a line in popular romantic histories is quite extraordinary.
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Muse: Postcard from Cologne: Willst Du…, in reply to Islander,
Ye godlets!
Thanks jb!+1 one on that. I find this fascinating.
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Hebe,
Covenants are a plague on most subdivisions here, but people must like living in Stepford because people buy the land and houses. I think the answer lies with the city council approving subdivisions that impose restrictive covenants. Cera has such wide powers it could override covenants - if it wanted to.
Isn't that ironic? All that power, and it wasn't used in a context where people could really have been helped.
Otoh, was there really not a developer willing to to cut a deal on establishing a "new Avonside"? It would have been the coolest subdivision in Christchurch.
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Because of Dateline’s complaint, which appears to be more in the form of a legal threat than a formal BSA complaint, and subsequent communications from SBS, I’m unable to continue this discussion beyond what I’ve already said. I presume Jon is in a similar position. I find this extremely regrettable.
What I can do is address some of the crazier claims about Jon by pasting in his short biography here:
Jon Stephenson is a New Zealand investigative journalist with extensive experience reporting conflict and trauma.
In addition to the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, Jon has reported on the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon, and from Gaza, East Timor, and Zimbabwe, as well as on natural disasters such as the 2004 tsunami in Asia-Pacific region, the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, and the 2008 earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province.
A graduate of the University of Auckland in history and philosophy, Jon has received numerous awards for his journalism, including the Bayeux-Calvados Prize for War Correspondents (twice). He was a 2008 Ochberg Fellow at the US-based Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, and is a member of the centre’s Australasian advisory board.
Jon Stephenson has won the written press trophy at the prestigious 2011 Bayeux-Calvados awards for war correspondents, for his Metro feature Eyes Wide Shut, on New Zealand’s involvement in the transfer of detainees to torture in Afghanistan.
In 2006 Stephenson received the same award for a two-part Metro report from Iraq.
And with that, I think I have to close this thread. This is a situation created by Dateline and SBS. Colour me appalled.
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