Posts by Russell Brown
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I, for one, welcome Capture's move into the Saturday Morning House Pr0n sector.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Little, but…, in reply to Ken Double,
ust on the general FYI front, Estere’s a good mate of my niece and a lovely girl, but she hasn’t been 17 in about 5 years.
Gah. I don't even know why I wrote that, and now I've been away all day and unable to fix it. Done now.
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I'll sometimes find myself working out what I'm going to write here in the morning as I drift in out of of sleep. It's evidently not ideal for actually sleeping, but it does mean I can knock out something quite quickly after breakfast. Example: yesterday's post.
Do you see what I do for you people? Do you see?
:-)
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Speaker: TPP: This is a fight worth joining, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Let’s ignore the US, for the moment. Pretend their obnoxious positions aren’t present, and it’s the original trade agreement that was envisaged. A comprehensive winding-back of agricultural protectionism in the likes of Korea would be good for NZ. That would still happen, with or without the other bullshit which has been introduced, and still be good.
I've just been thinking this. I suppose the idea of just expelling the US and getting a deal done isn't realistic ...
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Hard News: How a thing happens, in reply to Kyle MacDonald,
Yes, quite. I know people at Radio Live were unhappy and yes, the problem was with management and leadership, including in the wider company.
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Hard News: How a thing happens, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Maybe the requirement for large commercial broadcasters needs to move up a notch, so the whole shock-jock thing isn’t allowed.
But they're also the people who pay tens of millions of dollars for the use of spectrum. Their view is that that buys them the right to choose how they act.
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Hard News: How a thing happens, in reply to giovanni tiso,
During the David Shearer beneficiary on the roof saga, Whaleoil linked prominently in one of his posts to the transcript I posted on my blog of Shearer’s interview with Dunedin Radio One broadcaster Aaron Hawkins. This netted me half a dozen hits, which rather surprised me. For comparison, every time Russell links to my blog here I get 100 hits very quickly on a bad day.
And why would I debate your point here, sir? :-)
That is a very useful illustration of the limits of the simple measures.
On the other hand, since I became less employed and had more time to spend here, our monthly page impressions have gone from 160,000 to 260,000+, and that's a very interesting statistic to me. You could say that the best use of those numbers is to measure trends over time on a single site.
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Hard News: How a thing happens, in reply to simon g,
Perhaps. But on Monday night he was doing talkback on Radio Live, and describing these events as like a “witch hunt” and “McCarthyite” (if anyone wants confirmation, audio may be on their website, approx 11.45 pm Mon).
Mitch's politics are sometimes dreadful. But I think he'd have twigged sooner to what needed to happen. As it is, we have yet to hear at all from the woman who replaced him as the head of the station, which is bizarre.
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Hard News: How a thing happens, in reply to Stephen Judd,
In defence of Open Parachute’s blog table, it is what it is. Ken Perrott compiles two basic stats – number of visits and number of pages – from people who have their sitemeters set to public, and who have generally let him know they’re doing so.
Top of the table by miles, is Whaleoil, which leads Gio and others to argue that the stats are somehow invalid or misleading, which they aren’t. They are what they are.
I’d far rather have a simple, consistent measure than place my faith in something like the Tumeke blog rankings, which take a bunch of Alexa woo and combine it with some made-up criteria.
There are other ways of measuring the way blogs engage and influence their readers, but I don’t think they invalidate the simple measures. Indeed, if you deal with something like Comscore – which someone was urging on me on Twitter last night – you have to deal with quite significant privacy issues.
The fact is that Whale does do a million-plus page impressions monthly. He writes 20 posts a day and to some extent structures his site to maximise impressions. But, you know, a lot of people look at his website. That fact is what it is.
The thing is for me: why would I want to be in a league table that implied Whale and I had common cause or were doing the same thing? Our current traffic would put us in fourth place on page impressions, but I don’t want to be in a table with Whaleoil, Kiwiblog, The Standard and The Daily Blog.
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Here's Gio's letter to advertisers, sans his contact details:
I am the Wellington blogger cited in this New Zealand Herald story
(http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11151911)
about the appalling treatment by Willie Jackson and John Tamihere of a
young woman they interviewed on their show last Tuesday and who was a
friend of victims of the so-called ‘Roastbusters’. I believe their
line of questions - which was bullying in tone - constitutes a form of
rape apology that is very troublesome coming from media personalities
with a large following.I write to you therefore in relation to your company’s sponsorship of
the show in question, and would appreciate it if you would be so kind
as to answer the three questions below.I am asking these same questions to all the business that advertised
on the show on Wednesday, the day after the interview. I plan to
publish the responses (or lack thereof), this coming Monday.1. What does your company think about the treatment of ‘Amy’ by Willie
Jackson and John Tamihere on Tuesday’s show?2. What does your company think about the hosts’ “apology" on
yesterday's show? Do you consider it adequate?3. Does your company plan to continue to support the show financially
in the future?Best regards
Giovanni Tiso, Wellington