Posts by Peter Haynes

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  • Hard News: User-generated Speechification,

    "Consumer Generated Media are the Foot Soldiers" I meant.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: User-generated Speechification,

    Robyn, Wikipedia has a serviceable definition of "consumer generated media":

    "CGM originated as a reference to posts made by consumers within online venues such as internet forums, blogs, wikis, discussion lists etc., on products that they have purchased. Shoppers who are researching products often use other consumers' opinions when making buying decisions.

    The term has evolved to include video, audio and multimedia posts created by consumers in support (or negative parody/in-protest) of products, brands and corporate institutions."

    RB: Shouldn't it be "Consumer Generated Media are the Foot Soldier"? How can you take seriously a proposition that isn't even grammatical?

    Auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Random Play: Mix tape 2008,

    Many thanks for representing our views and providing an impression of the consultation meeting. Perhaps all is not lost.

    Small point: Te Papa has a Magic Lilo and various other rides in its amusement arcade, but it doesn't have a ferris wheel. (Yes, I know you were kidding.)

    Auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Random Play: Don’t know your past, don’t…,

    The Museum
    I visit the Museum every other month on average, partly because it is high on the list of places to take visiting academics. The latter are particularly impressed with the Maori and Paciifc Halls, the main reason for visiting the Museum.

    First, I have been impressed by the number of people in the Museum over the past year or two, especially since the opening of the extension. If anything, it has been a little too crowded in the weekends. What are the actual visitor numbers?

    Call me elitist, but like everybody I know, I am absolutely appalled at the prospect of a Te Papa-style dumbing down of the Museum. Sure, there are one or two areas that could do with a little freshening up, but that doesn't mean that we should turn the Museum into a cross between funfair and a garage sale pitched at the average 12-year old. Why can't one of the two best museums in the country be serious?

    And the treatment of the staff is so stupid it defies belief. Apart from the loss of institutional memory referred to above, there is the problem of survivor syndrome, the demoralisation of the surviving staff. Clearly one doesn't need to know anything about personnel psychology to be a museum administrator, but surely there must be someone who can put a stop to this nonsense.

    It really does look like yet another import trying to make a mark, and setting things back years. We've just had this experience with another largely publicly funded cultural institution in Auckland -- do we need to go through this again?

    The bottom line is that, if they Te Papa-ise the Museum, I and a lot of other peole will stop visiting.

    That awful, meaningless, schmaltzy pap about "vision", "engagement", "ideas-driven people", etc, is so utterly depressing. It does not auger well for the future.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Island Life: Get over it,

    "I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully. I have known this ever since candidate Bush declared it to be so in the election of 2000."

    But can the human being and Bush coexist peacefully?

    Auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Misquote Unquote,

    "You’re totally right Russell. I think we’re now seeing the so-far so-timid media frame around John Key change to is this guy really up to being Prime Minister? And the answer seems to be not really." Conor Roberts

    I'd like to think so, but it's not the job of the media in a capitalist liberal democracy to ask those sorts of questions. It's to make money by putting bums on seats and readers in front of newspapers, by finding or manufacturing conflict. Increasingly the latter. But then you knew that.

    So, have the media perhaps figured that a completely one-sided election fight won't generate the viewers/readers required for the advertiasers? Maybe. I think the Herald's a lost cause altogether this time round, though.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Debate like it's 2008!,

    "just as Close Up's elaborate contrivance to compare Clark and Goff as student protesters with the pair of them as government ministers 30 years later was irrelevant."

    Didn't catch the Close-up contrivance -- I generally only watch news and current affairs on the box -- but I can clearly recall being chastised by said Goff in the mid-1970s for wearing a Mao badge. (Yes, rather jejeune of me.) He was absolutely correct then, and pretty much always gets it right now. Not like Cullen, clearly.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 27 posts Report Reply

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