Hard News: Crowdfunding Time
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Hell, I pay for an NBR sub so I can sure as hell pay you some money :)
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Sacha, in reply to
please do post extracts from their paywalled articles here, for the purposes of review or criticism.
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Sacha, in reply to
ah, so a graphical editing interface.
Could be admirably simple as well. -
It's a start, but I've just chipped in. Keep up the good work!
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Hebe,
From Tuesday next, fortnightly, from ours to yours, small but regular. Insights, interestings, angst-ings and Capture and the people: PAS makes our world better.
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nzlemming, in reply to
ah, so a graphical editing interface.
Could be admirably simple as well.According to the Cactuslab site, Supermodel does have a GUI editor for the long form articles, but it doesn't mention anything about comments.
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Clearly a predictable cash flow lacks the wrong-sort-of-excitement of arbitrary amounts on random dates but since PayPal is just too much a PITA (country is pinned to email address) a dollop it must be. At least this way I have the value of PA brought to mind periodically through a fund-raiser rather than being just another background fee to be shoved under the carpet.
As to content, the Friday Sounds and links to Audio Culture stories are a great way to wreck my productivity at the end of the week. Overall PA and the Hard News mails before it have been the "expat lifeline" - I tend to gloss over the murkier bits of politicking in favour of the more culture/lifestyle content: BDO, festivals, Silo Park, etc - stupidly I tend to presume that Auckland has remained trapped in amber for the past years to be picked up again whenever I please so it's a fine jolt to read of all the good things happening and think "gotta get me some of that - someday..." So I'm a solid fan of the Capture photoblog - beats the crap out of peeping through StreetView.
Final request - more cultural archaeology please, along the lines of "Great NZ Argument" (can't say specifically what, since the whole joy is finding lines of thought that one didn't even think to suspect to look for...)
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Russell Brown, in reply to
According to the Cactuslab site, Supermodel does have a GUI editor for the long form articles, but it doesn’t mention anything about comments.
I'm not sure it's a priority, to be honest. The comments styling does work and it might not be cheap to introduce full GUI editing.
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bmk, in reply to
I'm not sure it's a priority, to be honest. The comments styling does work and it might not be cheap to introduce full GUI editing.
I agree. There's no problem with the current mark-up - it's already easy to use.
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Monthly AP subscription set up. I'm more than happy to pay for this high quality writing and community.
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nzlemming, in reply to
I’m not sure it’s a priority, to be honest. The comments styling does work and it might not be cheap to introduce full GUI editing.
Yep, I suspect it's non-trivial, given that Supermodel is hand-rolled by Cactuslab. You don't have the repository of plugins that larger distributions have.
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OK, I set up an AP. It’s a tiny amount, but I want to support this place which has given me so much. Many thanks Russell.
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Sue,
this works for one offs as well yes?
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Long time lurker, but I haven't posted for a while. Happy to support Public Address through a subscription. Keep up the great work one and all.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
this works for one offs as well yes?
Yes! Most welcome.
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One off it shall have to be for now, I am afraid. Hope it will help keep you on your feet until the next cheque from the Vast-and-Shadowy-Left-Wing-Conspiracy-Which-Dictates-Your-Every-Utterance clears. (The rumours of said tardiness being due to the non-existence of said Shadow Kremlin are greatly exaggerated).
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Well worth a subscription to me. And also worth a lump sum to help get you over the hump.
Sorry was a bit late to this but we had a holiday to Vietnam and Cambodia to execute first ... priorities. Now we have 2000 photos to sort through and some rather fine food experiences to exercise off.
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My first instinct was to send a lump sum as usual but on further consideration I've set up a monthly AP totalling about what I'd expect to be dropping in lump sums over a year.
The community ... nature? feeling? of Public Address means I'll not feel guilty about dropping the "subscription" should my circumstances change and money get tight in future, and that also has value to me.
Keep up the good work :)
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Sacha, in reply to
The community ... nature? feeling? of Public Address means I'll not feel guilty about dropping the "subscription" should my circumstances change
And isn't that great? I'm enjoying being able to support good ventures and people again after a drought. Swings, roundabouts..
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Me. I've been a hard news / public address fan for years. I just so appreciate some decent comment on politics / economics / social issues. Not to mention music, photography and food (I think it's the Feed blog that's tipped me over).
My first online subscription!!! Thanks Russell and to your co-bloggers too.
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