Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Stuff or the Herald
Post-merger, will it be Sterald or Huff ?
or just Me-Fax ... -
Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to Stephen Judd,
he now subscribes to Washington Post online
try your local library for Press Reader or similar
- free access to a world of papers
( Washington Post included, at least in Chchch)
http://www.pressreader.com.ezproxy.christchurchcitylibraries.com/ -
Life in the fridge exists...
The Herald's new daily dairy diary is a timely innovation, keeping us whey ahead of curds and other acts of Fonterrorism...
Perhaps they could add their best readers' 'cheese puff' recipe?
More mousetrap than click bait? -
Hard News: Friday Music: Bombathon Begins, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
of all the vinyl joints, in all the world...
hadn't realised Celia...
...she was but a 'feisty waif' selling records in Real Groovy's first Queen Street store when I first met her, IIRC... Rip It Up deliveries, early '80s...
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
they’ll probably fix it soon I left a snarky comment
Fixed - they're quick tonight!
- shame their original error has to remain in the story url - otherwise they'd have to delete from the system entirely and repost - the large print giveth and the small print taketh away - yet again - thank you Mr Waits! -
Good old Stuff - spelling is not their strong suit...
addition - how hard is that?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/83705309/otakaro-boss-albert-brantley-could-earn-100000-in-edition-to-base-salary#comments
Close enough is good enough it seems these days.
I guess those extra ds cost big money while the vowels are cheap enough.That story is bad enough FFS, without adding illiteracy to the mix!
(they'll probably fix it soon I left a snarky comment - though sometimes they just ignore those and leave any old tosh up - no bloody standards!) -
Hard News: LATE: From #Slacktivism to Activism, in reply to Sacha,
information is broader than those things
then again perhaps...
A growing number of scientists, Gleick writes, are beginning to wonder whether information "may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself."
or not...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/why-information-cant-be-the-basis-of-reality/ -
Hard News: Orcon IRL on Journalism: The Video, in reply to Kevin McCready,
It’s a pain checking back manually every now and then.
the http://publicaddress.net/system/ ‘portal’
gives you a fairly painless quick reference on the ongoing status of all recent threads – in time order.
and http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/
extends it to all threadsand you could just leave that window open and refresh as needed, microseconds of effort...
I tend to think of it as poking my head in the local to see who’s there and what’s what… otherwise it would be Twitter!
...which is almost all gross characters (4 short!):- )
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Hard News: Medical cannabis: a polling experiment, in reply to Russell Brown,
pocket vaporisers …
They're that expensive?
I'd heard drugs burnt holes in your pockets.... -
Speaking of polls and serious research - Chchch's own openminded investigative reporter - Mike Yardley, turns in another fully researched piece on the epidemic of drugged drivers in Canterbury.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/83659287/mike-yardley-lets-get-deadbeat-drugged-drivers-off-the-roadssorry that should read another load of self-opinionated self-serving tripe from Mike Yardley's paranoid universe....
