Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
when you see something in the media that you have personal knowledge of, it's most likely wrong or distorted in some respect
+1
People should know this
Clashes with the overall discourse of media's authority; requires investment in assuring people that they are allowed to doubt.
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Hard News: Complaint and culture, in reply to Chris Waugh,
But put at its proper distance of 240 million light years the story suddenly becomes truly awesome.
The number on its own doesn't do that; contextual knowledge is required. Lack of ability/resource for journos or editors to know what's relevant and convey that in stories seems to be a general problem these days. A more viable business model might help.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to BenWilson,
To be fair on the council, it's not their job to fix up the maps of third party vendors
I believe said vendor's business model relies on being notified. And Auckland Transport in particular has been working with Google on some projects. Probably lack of integration with Waterfront Development Agency..
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Govt announces EQC liability increased from 3b to 7b.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to BenWilson,
Which, incidentally is not marked on Google as having a pedestrian bridge, so if people wanted to use Navigation to get to them, they would be doing the old scenic route
Yep, I verified that recently on Maps trying to send someone directions to the flash new Viaduct Events Centre. You'd think ensuring major map providers are updated might be part of any area upgrade project by now.
Anyone who has gone to the trouble of making sure they're in Google is likely to be expensive
It's in the (public funded) development agency's interests for key businesses to suceed.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to nzMM,
Regards the K rd over-bridge
AKT blog has a post with photos of the problems - which apparently include lack of basic protection from rain, something repeated across Auckland's transport network that should be a source of shame for designers. Compare with the earlier artful renderings.
Inevitably, there's a Bookface page.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
smartphones still aren't *that* common in NZ
I suspect they'll be the norm amongst our relatively wealthy rugby tourists ..
postcards and stamps
.. though maybe not all of them.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
*if people could find it*
The Starmart mentioned is back over the pedestrian bridge; not even in the same conceptual area.
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to nzlemming,
What's in their heads is
ideology. and that's all
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Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Russell Brown,
a half-hour queue
That'll impress our foreign visitors