Posts by Sacha
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Legal Beagle: It's (almost) never that simple, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
retained editorial control
I imagine the real degree of that will be pivotal, including who made the decision not to take calls.
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to nzlemming,
Totally. We've inherited an old print publishing mindset where the content and presentation were completely separated rather than linked together in ways that affect accessibility. As you say, just using styled Headings in Word makes a huge difference.
Most people have never been told why that is, and knowing such things is simply not valued. Organisations have ways of telling their people what to put energy into and where lipservice will be tacitly approved. Genuine commitment and leadership looks rather different than what's on offer now.
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to merc,
Good organisations have documentation dept’s
Not so much any more, as raised upthread. Those skills need to be distributed along with the responsibiliites.
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to Elisa Lavelle,
Found this section of the Department of Labour's BIM. Given its impending privatisation, I wouldn't be surprised if this govt is refusing to release much else about ACC.
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Having a properly structured source document without little text boxes and whatnot increases the chances a PDF made from it will be readable by other software, including research tools like Mendeley and the screen-readers that blind people use.
Here's one I made that DIA's standards team regard as a good example (PDF, 1.3MB).
Making all text left-aligned is really helpful for people who use screen magnifiers, and regular text spacing makes reading easier for all - 'justified' alignment is not our friend. Making content and structure easier to grasp helps everyone too. Plain language is hard to write but is gold.
Compulsory training of all public servants producing material for publication would help more than most current wet-bus-ticketing about standards. People want to do a good job. And they want to be able to read material made with their taxes (and rates). We all deserve that.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Islander,
this red-zone move means a very large chunk of retirement equity has gone
that nice Mr Key promised otherwise didn't he?
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This is how this is different from an ordinary donation. If I give a party $100,000 of free polling, I may free up money for them to advertise, I might help them get elected, I might buy "access", I might help be enacted policies they've already announce which I like.
And while those things may be beneficial to me, it's a different type of benefit to what we've got here. Radio Live gave Key/National something of value, but they got back something of value in return, and the commercial nature of that transaction may be enough to see it fall outside the legislative meaning of "donation".
The radio company getting something more immediate in addition to the range of potential benefits you've listed does not rule those out, it only adds to them.
And it would be interesting to see how the arrangement with the station was covered off. What constitutes consideration if no money changed hands?
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Hebe,
I'd ask him
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Hebe,
Yum. Slurp. Thud.
hallelujah
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Hard News: Media Mathematics, in reply to Hebe,
As he said late in his life "I've spent my life battling bullshit."
and spreading it