Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to BenWilson,
Wow, that’s pretty heavy. How to write off 90% of the workforce as “the living dead”.
Yeah, that’s OTT verging on silly. But the message that it’s good to work on your own thing – having a specialist subject is good – rather than just trudging up the standard workplace path is a sound one.
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When I read yesterday what Naipaul had written about Austen, I immediately thought of you, Craig. Nice work.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Jeremy Crowley,
There is a much younger Russell Brown 1/3 of the way into this.
I sound like a girl.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Next time, smack in the face with nearest piece of cast iron kitchenware. Hurts less. Faster healing. Better odds of avoiding permanent brain damage and existential despair.
And if course, I had to go back and read it again. The hot, burning stupid-- it flows freely.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to nzlemming,
Mind you, you still comment on Kiwibog, let alone read it.
Hardly ever either, these days.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to andrew gunn,
I've just made the mistake of reading the Herald's "Your Views".
God's trousers...
You fool!
There was a reason I didn't link to it.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Incidentally, I rue the day that the internet transformed IT from a sad backroom activity into one of those borderline-sexy jobs. As a twenty-something coder In the early 90’s, I made two or three times average earnings, flew business class and was furnished with a suitably whizzy company car. I guess I still do ok, but those days are gone, sadly. Too much competition.
Ah, yes. There was a good little spin-off for IT journalists at the same time – a salary premium for having enough of a clue to report on a specialist area, those lovely business-class flights to conventions in cool places …
But no company car, though.
The other point of interest there is that when relented and took a job with the man, what I brought in was basically informally learned. I feared I’d be totally underdone, but I actually turned out to be the “internet guy”, with a year or two’s head start on most of my colleagues.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Alastair Jamieson,
Here’s an interesting take that I think is just as relevant to future journalists and other media content producers as it is to photographers:
The Future Of Photography Is In The Photographer Not The PhotographYup, that's damned interesting.
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Can I just take this opportunity to apologise on behalf of Auckland with respect to the Auckland idiots queueing up to declare what's "realistic" in today's "Have you given up on Christchurch?" on the Herald website? Grrrr.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I bet Emma has a pair
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