Posts by Russell Brown
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In a footnote somewhere, funding for Public Broadcasting Services has been cut by $3.08 million. Sigh.
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This is good: in Myths of the Unitary Plan, Ben Ross fact-checks both a fearful press release from an anti-Plan group (No More Rates -- although wtf that has to do with the Unitary Plan is beyond me) and the council's own myth-busting messaging. The council washes up rather better.
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I would find some of the things depicted in the post weird and tasteless if they were in front of me in real life. But here, they're just on the internet.
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Hard News: Media3: Parliament Live, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Mean of me, but I’m tempted to try catching the final episode of Gilmore’s Folly this afternoon, live. Anyone know the exact time?
About 3pm, after Question Time.
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Hard News: SpinCity, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
She’s a fairly respected expert. Try finding one who *hasn’t* had an interested party as a client (legal academics, I guess).
Quite. Lawyers have clients in their areas of expertise. I can't even see where there's a relevant conflict, tbh.
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Gender demographic: 60.2% male, 39.8% female.
Biggest age group: 45-54 years, accounting for 31.5% of all views.
And the most popular page in the past eight weeks? Trevor Mallard's, with nearly 1000 views -- bigger than the Question Time and general Debate pages put together!
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And again, emphasising how big that marriage equality bump was ...
All-time views by location:
New Zealand 875,677
United States 527,330
United Kingdom 269,659
Australia 222,505
Canada 132,203
Germany 74,650
France 45,000
South Korea 42,156
Ireland 41,263
Finland 31,222 -
In the House has provided us with some data on its services.
All-time most-viewed videos:
1. Marriage (of Marriage) Amendment Bill – Third Reading – Part 20
VIEWS: 1,356,665
MINUTES WATCHED: 3,276,5172. Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill – Third Reading – Part 2
VIEWS: 174,230
MINUTES WATCHED: 540,0683. Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill – Third Reading – Part 1
VIEWS: 27,442
MINUTES WATCHED: 108,8684. Military Manoeuvres Act Repeal Bill – Third Reading – Part 6
VIEWS: 15,916
MINUTES WATCHED: 1,1145. General Debate – 21st March, 2012 – Part 1
VIEWS: 15,389
MINUTES WATCHED: 863So it’s marriage equality then daylight …
The number one is the waiata after the third reading. But as Toby Manhire points out, the Maurice Williamson clip in second place here was ripped by a whole bunch of third-party sites, so probably got more views in total.
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Hard News: Media3: Parliament Live, in reply to Sacha,
a missed opportunity to showcase some NZ music
Often thought the same. How hard would it be?
It is New Zealand music -- commissioned from the late Rob Winch.
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Hard News: SpinCity, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Listening to the NatRad replay on the affair, Prostetnic Vogon Joyce resorted to insisting black is white when he claimed future Govts are liable to compensate SkyCity if they tear up the deal. When Mary Wilson asked him for an actual real life example, he changed the subject.
"Give me a real example of this."
"I'll give you a theoretical example."
Farcical.