Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: It all leads to…, in reply to EE,
Lourde releasing another track just before “Friday Music” comes out … coincidence?
We have ... an arrangement.
The song is OK but I prefer Vivaldi’s original.
Heh.
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Hard News: Friday Music: It all leads to…, in reply to Greg Wood,
You don’t need to win Lotto to get hold of a mirror ball… $34.50 from Surplustronics and maybe another $10 for a D-cell motor. I have one above my desk!
The integrated sub is more important, but my dream is a one-touch disco – just press a button and it all emerges.
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Hard News: Meet the new bots, same as…, in reply to Teej,
In fairness, though, it was a great jab and deserved the coverage it got.
Aw, thanks!
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Hard News: Meet the new bots, same as…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Perhaps as bots get more prevalent and realistic, they’ll undermine the (flaky) economic basis of social media – will companies pay to advertise to an audience of non-consuming computer programs?
The rampant fakery of the internet advertising market hasn't killed off "programmatic" yet – agencies understandably don't want to tell clients that most of it's bullshit.
But it may only be a matter of time.
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Hard News: Superannuation: Back to the Future, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
The idea of the actuarial approach seems to be that by putting money aside now we’ll save having to pay more tax in the future when we have a larger retired population. But when that future point arrives, won’t we then have to be saving money for an even larger retired population – we don’t know all that well what’s going to happen to life expectancies 50 or 100 years in the future.
I'm no expert (calling all experts!) but I think the particular problem here is the size of the baby-boomer cohort, which has basically reshaped society around itself by sheer force of numbers. Which is independent of arguments about the privilege that cohort has enjoyed.
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One other thing that could be relevant: Lucy Lawless retweeted my unkind tweet about Ben Carson being stupid this week. My tweets usually get 1000-5000 impressions. That one is closing in on 40,000.
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Speaker: Vodafone, Sky and the Commerce…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
While the big lump sum that sports get from Sky would disappear I’m not certain that most sports would lose overall from widening the market for their sport away from pay TV.
It's working fine in Britain. Ofcom imposed a "wholesale must offer" rule on BSkyB in 2010 – meaning it had to offer its Sky Sports 1 and 2 programming on a wholesale basis to other operators – and removed it in 2015, reasoning that a commercial market had become established and there was no further need for regulation.
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Speaker: Vodafone, Sky and the Commerce…, in reply to Paula Browning,
Thanks John. I was referring more to Jordan’s comments. The notion that the internet is a one-stop distribution tool for content and that content can be let loose online and will find an audience by itself is a huge leap away from what sports organisations are used to in doing one-to-one rights deals with broadcasters.
I'm with John here: Jordan's not talking about content being "let loose" on the internet. He envisages a scenario where Sky continues to negotiate and secure rights to content which is then distributed in subsequent agreements with other companies.
The current situation, in which Sky controls both the content and the technical means of its distribution hasn't been particularly good for consumers or content creators, to the extent that it makes Sky the monopoly buyer and seller.
The prohibitive wholesale pricing Sky places on its content is reminiscent of the bad old days of Telecom, when that company sometimes wholesaled services at a rate higher than it charged at retail.
The use of the internet as a technical delivery mechanism doesn't mean a free-for-all. Netflix is delivery over the internet and people pay for that. With Brent Impey at the helm, it's not hard to see NZ Rugby seeking a different sales model for its content when the current Sky deal expires.
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Like this ...
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More records released on Lorde Day:
Grayson Gilmour's rather delightful new song 'Hundred Waters'.
And Pitch Black's single of 'It's the Future Knocking', with remixes by International Observer, Alpha Steppa and Deep Fried Dub.
Seriously looking forward to that Pitch Black show tonight ...
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