Posts by Rob Stowell
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Hard News: We need to talk about Kevin, in reply to Kumara Republic,
McManagement.
Like it :)
Myles: very good questions! Be great to think Kev has good answers
Print (who are more desperate!) seem to be embracing ‘convergence’. They use video and audio clips, get photos up fast, and seem more committed to it than TV.
Are we heading for a time when print and tv look pretty similar- you browse on your tv, read a bit here, take in some interactive graphics, and watch a story that promises good pictures, or because you want to see the dude’s eyes when he says that, and assess how convincing is the body-language.
Or maybe the hipsters are already doing this? :) -
More on-topic: the habit of installing generic managers is a terrible curse. I think it's based on the fallacy that because exceptional managers can be exceptional at managing almost anything, all management is generic and specific industry background and knowledge is not just unnecessary, it can mean the applicant is stuck in 'bad old ways'.
Pah! Give me a manager who knows the business backwards any day. Rick Ellis might as well have been making baked beans. -
Hard News: We need to talk about Kevin, in reply to Sacha,
When the funding rules start reflecting what ‘broadcaster’ can mean these days, it might not matter so much.
You'd think, and it's wearing about the edges (music videos- maybe not the edge anymore? :)) But try bringing this up with regional broadcasters and you tend to get an earful.
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to JacksonP,
Here’s some more of the yards.
I heard someone has been doing a biological study of the land out back. Since it was abandoned, all manner of flora and fauna have flourished.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: had things gone differently, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Gina ‘Flintheart’ Rinehart has no siblings
that she will acknowledge :)
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definitely gonna tune in for this one :)
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to Hebe,
I can think of four significant periods of my life that I spent much time within 50 metres of that spot in different buildings.
classic strip of chch, that bit of manchester/high st. smiths, alices, so many little shops and bars and places to eat.
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to JacksonP,
since starting Intermediate this year, they’ve been the happiest kids around.
Yay! Can't beat it.
New school for year 8, and so far, touch wood, also going well for thing one and thing two. Though they wanted a day off Wednesday because some of the *boys* decided it was 'hug-day' and they didn't want to get boy-germs :)
(sorry, thread moving sideways, ahem! lovely pier pics!) -
Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to Hebe,
Thanks Hebe, it was a little under-done, but lovely anyway. (Rip-sticks instead of surfboards. Family dinner at the Joyful… )
Yeah, I so understand that ‘demands have lifted’ feeling! Even though they haven’t really, a change is as good as a … change :-) -
Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to JacksonP,
BTW, our tween twins had a birthday this week too. ;-)
Jeepers, ours were 12 on Feb 28- is that a cluster? :)
#aren’ttwinswonderfuloratleastafterwhatwe’vebeenthroughwe’reentitledtothinkso