Posts by Russell Brown
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Okay, Cyclovia was a bit of a disappointment early in the month -- but on the upside, we nearly reached Peak Gracewood!
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More from Splore.
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Hard News: Drugs, development and reality, in reply to Gregor Ronald,
Once you have farmers that you can talk to, with a regular income, you can start on substitution programmes.
Yes. Sanho's point about economic security is quite crucial.
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Hard News: Diverse Auckland: are we…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
For me the measure of cultural diversity is the food.
I know some people get annoyed with the "think of the restaurants!" thing, but yeah, Dominion Road has transformed in the past decade. For me, it's Avondale Markets -- I ride there on my bike on a Sunday morning and for an hour I'm in diverse Auckland, where people from many different ethnic background trade, and trade with each other. God, I love the place.
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Ah. I see Telecom has said (it's paywalled on NBR) that it plans to produce no local content as part of ShowmeTV. Which means it's set on a contest with Sky that it basically can't win. Brilliant.
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Hard News: Telecom and TV, in reply to Paul Rowe,
Yes. I want to hear more about using Apple TV -- which is a vastly superior device to anything inside a smart TV.
Unfortunately, I'm also a sports fan, which means I won't be able to dump Sky any time soon ...
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Hard News: Telecom and TV, in reply to Gareth Ward,
Sorry are you saying a Telecom venture should do that? They’d never be able to monetise that and/or gain the sort of scale they operate at. I think it’s (very) valid as a differentiator on your broader television play, but not as a standalone play. Not for them anyway.
Oh, absolutely -- it's a differentiator with significant potential benefits as time passes.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Snap :-)
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Deborah Hill Cone fronts about her column. Fair enough.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Mayor of…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Regarding Phil Warren, is his son Peter “Rooda” Warren, drummer for DD Smash in their early-mid ’80s heyday ? If so, whatever happened to him ? Any ideas, please ?
No, no relation. Peter Warren has been in the UK most of the time since DD Smash, still playing music I think. He was back in the country late last year for for Dave Dobbyn's Silver Scrolls Hall of Fame. Nice chap. Doesn't have the hair any more.
