Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Unscripted Drama, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I had the cricinfo ball-by-ball commentary on pretty much the whole game and it wasn’t delayed.
It only seemed to be delayed via the Cricinfo mobile app, for some reason.
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Hard News: Unscripted Drama, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Especially if you have kids.
Or if you're a kid old enough to go with your friends after school. Way to lock the next generation out.
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Hard News: Unscripted Drama, in reply to Paul Rowe,
One downer for someone following Sunday’s play from the golf course: why is the cricinfo feed of the game delayed by half an hour? What is the court injunction that is mentioned?
That would be a total screw-up in which NZ Cricket is complicit:
Multi-Screen Media (MSM), the Sony owned media company which had acquired exclusive rights to the India-New Zealand TV Series, appears to have received an interim injunction from the Delhi High Court, preventing premier Cricket websites ESPNCricinfo, Cricbuzz and the online version of Radio One, the radio channel owned by BSE listed Next Mediaworks‘ from providing live updates and commentary online. While many publications have reported this injunction – CricketCountry, Indiantelevision.com and TelevisionPoint - MediaNama couldn’t locate a copy of this order on the Delhi High Court’s website. We’re yet to receive a response to emails sent to Cricbuzz and Cricinfo, and Mult-Screen Media appears to have changed its PR agency in the last two weeks, and apparently the old one doesn’t have any contacts in MSM anymore. (Updated below)
The India-New Zealand series began on Sunday, January 19th 2014, and will continue till February 18th, and includes 5 One Day International matches, and two Test matches. The series is being broadcast online on SonyLIV.com, and on its mobile applications. The New Zealand Cricket Board had granted exclusive media rights including television, internet, mobile and data rights to MSM for the Indian sub-continent.
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Hard News: Unscripted Drama, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Don’t know about that. Basin prices were lifted to $45 against England last year, along with the scrapping of free entry in the last hour of play, or any discount for afternoon attendance, and I thought it was because it was England, but sure enough it’s the standard price now – it was applied for the match against the West Indies.
Ah. I see. The scrapping of the free last hour and afternoon discounts seems particularly counterproductive. Most people can't spare a whole weekday to attend the match, but a reasonable offer would see a lot more people come to the ground for the last session. The way walk-up crowds are disincentivised now seems particularly counterproductive.
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Hard News: The Cycle Frolic, in reply to Ben Gracewood,
Riding from North Wharf to Quay Street was pleasant, a slow careful ride amongst pedestrians, co-existing nicely, but then we got spat out at the intersection of Quay and Hobson Streets, which appeared to be in full use by vehicles, with no points-person on duty.
We muddled our way across that intersection and there we were on (half of) Quay St. The other half had busses rolling along, tooting at anyone who dared to stray out of the corralled area. At this point I had to ask why did they do it on Quay St? There’s no significant retail to benefit from the extra foot traffic, and it’s bloody hard to access on bike from most angles.
We reached the ferry building, where the road was blocked by fire engines, and turned around.
I started at the ferry building and was immediately deterred from heading east. And the Quay-Hobson St intersection was a shambles: I'm a confident street rider and I was confused about where I was meant to be.
I genuinely appreciate the sentiment for this event, but the execution was really half-hearted.
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And like an hour late for inclusion in this week's post, High Hoops posted a really beautiful new tune.
It got raves overnight from the Earmilk MP3 blog, among others.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Trippy Shit, in reply to Peter Darlington,
There’s a great saturated dub version of this by Althea & Donna on there as well.
Ah yes. Caught this one when you tweeted it this week.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Trippy Shit, in reply to TracyMac,
I'm not sure why Flores is being glossed as "the feminist", when her critique was based on racial commentary (which I didn't agree with, btw). Seems unnecessary.
Fair enough. It's how she describes herself tho.
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Hard News: The Cycle Frolic, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
We can think of this not as a closure, but instead as an opening!
Nice image. I shall bear it in mind.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to Jos,
Nice Russell!
Perfect day. Ennui rules.Thank you!
Slight worried about having put a bend in the beach ...