a card-carrying freak who probably works for the Freak Foundation as a day job

I told Jol you said that, and he looked confused and said "...but I don't carry cards!"

I dont do it daily, but every now and then on sites I feel provide me…

A cunning plan like that, what could go wrong?

Suspiciously low conversion ratio? Wouldn't that just drive the payout per click down?

A cunning plan like that, what could go wrong?

I wonder what the other 3.4% use? Netscape 3.7?

More than you'd think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers

Konquerer, Epiphany, K-Meleon and Dillo are likely contenders. Maybe a few nutbars using Lynx and Emacs as well.

Cost per click ads appear when the space isn't sold (for technical reasons, something has to be served). They're usually uglier. If someone clicks on one of those, it makes me between 35 and 90 cents.

The cost per click model does seem to be quite broken. They only pay…

can i attempt a thread-jack here?
favourite bFM adverts:

NO PANTS!

Eww... did I really need that mental picture of Mikey Havoc?

That is true. There would be 50% silence. Koan for Craig: What is 50% of zero silence? Hint: You won't find the answer in the noise.

Thanks for…

I'm sensing sarcasm. THAT'S IT, I'm taking my content and going home.

I'm sensing discontent.

What is 50% of zero silence? Hint: You won't find the answer in the noise.

But aren't the ads part of the signal too?

How sweet.

I'm sensing sarcasm. THAT'S IT, I'm taking my content and going home. Oh, no, that's right, it's your content now, and I'm already home.

Think bFM. You'd miss heaps if you ran an adblocker over your radio.

That is true. There would be 50% silence. Koan for Craig:…

PPS that NoScript addon was annoying – i can live without it
thanks for the suggestion though, Scott.

Think bFM. You'd miss heaps if you ran an adblocker over your radio

so true!

can i attempt a thread-jack here?
favourite bFM adverts:

NO PANTS!

So far this year:

MS Internet Explorer 51.9 %
Firefox 33.5 %
Safari 7.7 %
Mozilla 1.9 %
Opera 1.6 %

I wonder what the other 3.4% use? Netscape 3.7?

We get to come here and play around on the best blog site in NZ, and you're too damned stingy to watch the ads in return for all the entertainment?

Hey, there are people on PA willing to argue that a musician earning $10k for an album is an overpaid…

And no OS/2 or PSP/PS3 users? Man, people use that to do their banking, why not read PA?

Yup, soz. I justify it myself by flattering myself that I add content. When I was just a lurker I left the ads on.

How sweet.

Also, I've never ever ever ever clicked on an ad, so really it would be wasting PA's bandwidth.

There are two kinds of advertising…

We get to come here and play around on the best blog site in NZ, and you're too damned stingy to watch the ads in return for all the entertainment?

Yup, soz. I justify it myself by flattering myself that I add content. When I was just a lurker I…

I think they made an impression

WOO-HOO indeed. But would someone tell frigging Reuters that countries don't win Grammies. Only Eurovision, of which least said soonest mended.

Right It was kind of hard to work an Irish angle in to this thread, but Craig inadvertently opened the door. It’s Eurovision time again and Ireland has got…

The last New Zealander to win a Grammy was opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa in 1984, according to the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand.

Stuff is saying that Fran Walsh won for co-writing 'Into the West' in 2005. Kiri was the last one before that apparently.

Spinal Tap...

yeah, i didn't want to be the negative guy...
FoC have done so well to succeed in the U.S. with their non-mainstream type of humour – who would've thought

in related news, Jemaine's been hired to act in a film by that napoleon dynamite guy

(i have no idea who those other comedy album nominees were)

Going for the one that seemed the most vaguely familiar: Harry Shearer is one of the Simpsons' voice actors, came via SNL. And some movies.

There's a sense in which FOTC just beat Spinal Tap for a Grammy.

However you link to the Obama award notes

Hillary Rodham Clinton took home a Grammy in 1996 for her audio version of the book, "It Takes A Village."

so it just make be that in some categories (not comedy) there are more awards than…

He even won a Grammy.

I think I'd be feeling the world was against me if I were Hillary.

countries don't win Grammies

true, but FOC are so unashamedly kiwi.

(i have no idea who those other comedy album nominees were)

Has the world gone mad?

Only Eurovision, of which least said soonest mended.

hey... no bad words about Eurovision.

and congrats to FOConchords!!

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, a cult favorite in the United States thanks to their HBO television show, won their country's first Grammy in 24 years on Sunday.

Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who play marginally talented folk singers…

True story. Honest.

Once every year or so the powers that be deem us worthy of a few updates.

So, no ad blocker for me.

Surprised to see IE up over 50%!

probably all those public servants.

a few places are still microsoft-only shops.

Man, they really need to get the message out to Mac users. See above.

They sure do, soon as I heard I had a look at their site and still said Mac wasn't properly supported... Hopeless. I didn't think Flip4Mac supported the DRM stuff (at least it didn't use to)…

What's with this free riding business? We get to come here and play around on the best blog site in NZ, and you're too damned stingy to watch the ads in return for all the entertainment?

ouch

adblock plus is on by default, so it has to be a conscious…

What's with this free riding business? We get to come here and play around on the best blog site in NZ, and you're too damned stingy to watch the ads in return for all the entertainment?

It's not the stinginess – its the ads themselves. I have a…

i do feel a little guilty about that (us chardonnay socialists are always feeling guilty about something). i could turn off adblock for public address i suppose...

just out of curiosity, what percentage of PA readers use firefox?

I use it, with the ads on. What's with this free riding…

]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:18:12 +1300 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-7/?p=41625#post41625 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-7/?p=41625#post41625 Re: the evening news. One night last week (Weds perhaps), one of the news broadcasts had a report on "American weather" (a few tornadoes) by 6.06pm. The other lot covered the same story at 6:15 after the first ad break.

Yawn! They only have to produce ~20 minutes of non-sports…

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hmm i just tried and it hurt my eyes. i hate flashing ads.

At least that one flickers then stops. That's okay.

RB, you mentioned the new freeview boxes will have networking capability of some sort?? does that mean they could stream media from your pc? THAT would be cool

…

i could turn off adblock for public address i suppose...

hmm i just tried and it hurt my eyes. i hate flashing ads.

Firefox 33.5 %

yikes. that must be higher than the worldwide average, surely.
do you have a figure on how many people block adverts?

RB, you mentioned…

How much wok is involved in a program like this?

I guess the glass topped table, coffee mugs and chairs are a given, but what about the critical things like swooshy things in the backgound? Great big TV screens? Great big TV screens with swooshy things.

Seriously though,…

Surprised to see IE up over 50%

Doesn't surprise me. How many of us visited this site on work computers (in our work breaks of course)?
I think they would be far more likely to have IE on them than people's personal computers.
I've gotten in to trouble for installing…

and I hope you'll do the same with Media 7.

When it launched, I though Mediawatch was fresh and insightful, and I hope to do the same with Media 7.

and i do love pushing dasies, possibly my favourite show of the new season

i guess this means i need to get a freeview decoder, just when i thought i could get away without it

A dirty sexy monkey would be funnier.

Not as much fun as you might think, believe me. And am I bad person for admitting that Dirty Sexy Money has now replaced America's Next Top Model as must-see guilty pleasure TV. :)

From what I just read on Slashdot, it may pay for all FireFox users to get NoScript.

Surprised to see IE up over 50%!

just out of curiosity, what percentage of PA readers use firefox?

So far this year:

MS Internet Explorer 51.9 %
Firefox 33.5 %
Safari 7.7 %
Mozilla 1.9 %
Opera 1.6 %

Also:

Windows XP 65.7 %
Mac OS X 13.7 %
Windows Vista 6.3 %
Windows 2000 4.1 %…

Can you please remove the nauseatingly cute banner ad for the nauseatingly cute Pushing Dasies?

I get the Dirty Sexy Money Ad. Wonder what that says about my profile. lol

Can you please remove the nauseatingly cute banner ad for the nauseatingly cute Pushing Dasies? I'm lapsing into a diabetic coma as we speak... :) (Beautifully produced shows with the kind of lusciously quirky production values you'd expect in a Wes Anderson film, BTW, but a little whimsy goes…

Of course, if everyone opted out, I couldn't justify spending much time on the site ...

i do feel a little guilty about that (us chardonnay socialists are always feeling guilty about something). i could turn off adblock for public address i suppose...

just out of curiosity, what percentage of…

Implying something? or just angrily opposed to coherent paragraphs...

Might even have been a rather clumsy bit of filler, thrown in on deadline to bring the column up to length. I guess it would be entirely fair comment to say Hard News is Russell's shop window and it is pastel…

Basically, the "but" acts as a conjunction with the previous paragraph, rather than the preceding sentence.

I have this thing where I scream 'edit' out loud, like 'medic' in a war movie.

It may be that I need to get out more.

But this is fabulous news.

ads? i didn't realise there were ads. good ol' firefox

I guess the challenge for us is to make you feel that you're missing something if you don't see the ads. Normal agency campaigns reach a mass audience that wouldn't know an ad-blocker if it fell on them. Obviously, a…

A reader emailed me recently:

Russell, can you please take that offensive ad for Jack's Point off your blog. This development is one of the worst imaginable – destroying a pristine lake edge so a few absurdly wealthy individuals can play golf in their backyards.

IIRC, this the property block…

I strongly suggest another extension 'NoScript'

thanks, i'll try that.

ads? i didn't realise there were ads. good ol' firefox

The ad, like many of the agency campaigns placed here, are a response to our reader profile: well-off and well-educated.

Could explain why I have never seen it. lol

I must say though that those two paragraphs in the Herald are complete and utter shit. They misrepresent Hard News (and perhaps PA more generally) as not just primarily political but also strongly partisan, misrepresent Kiwiblog as only "National-friendly", and the "but" suggests…

Can someone please explain to me the relationship between the first and second sentence above? And just what the 'but' is doing in there.

I think your first sentence is best considered in the context of the previous one. Consider the italicised bit below as essentially parenthetical to the now…

And just what the 'but' is doing in there

heh. isn't everything before a "but" in a sentence supposed to be a lie?

"it was the most fantastic dinner, but the pie was cold"

In particular, Hard News has been a strong supporter of the Government approach to the Electoral Finance Act. But it is understood that the new Media 7 show will have a number of participants. The series has been given funding for 34 episodes.

Can someone please explain to me the…

does this mean that we in wellington can stop pulling strings?

i was sure one of them is attached to a bucket of water...

Unfortunately, according to that same story, it looks like I should wait until much later in the year to get one that is actually basically functional. Bugger.

I hope the show goes well though it still may not be enough to convince me to get a tv or a tv card. I do hope the TVNZ thingy is agreeable though.

Looking forward to the show, Russell. Is Mr. Frewen involved?

I strongly suggest another extension 'NoScript'

reader profile: Technically Savvy.

As for your partisan love of the EFA, I think what John was trying to say is that you haven't had a cry about it every single day like the fair and balanced media do.

John is a good journo but, in my experience, has a predilection for sniffing out real or imagined scandal.
We too are stuck in the…

The first I knew of it was in an email from a reader that said: "John Drinnan seems to imply you have the programme because you support the Labour Govt and the EFA."

John and I have had a frank, but personal, exchange about the story. He insists there was…

Congratulations! Awesome work, would love to see it... but being a Mac user without Freeview do I stand a chance?

Man, they really need to get the message out to Mac users. See above.

Is there something about video on demand I need to know?

TVNZ delivers video in two different formats. The main site uses Windows Media as the default. If you install the Flip4Mac components for QuickTime, it will appears inline as a QuickTime movie. You can save this — just click…

Guess I've got no excuse. Have to get a TV now. And a freevee thingy. Need to save my bandwidth for other things.

You might be pleased (or not, as the case may be) to find out the Media 7 Depreciation Society is open for business. I see rich merchandising opportinities... :)

Is that all? Even Mr Baiter seemed restrained ...

Now I've got to go watch the news. Purely for research purposes...

First comment, surely not?

That's what happens when I post on a Sunday afternoon, clearly. I had a brief panic attack at the gig last night about how much I had to do before flying to Wellington for Webstock, but I got up and wrote two magazine columns and a…

Um, yes... David pointed the item out to me, and I briefly considered dropping Mr. Drinnan a line suggesting that Labour Party sock puppets don't give regular air time (and a very free hand) to dyspeptic Tories ... but thought better of it.

No worries. I did it for you.…