This week the Herald will provide details of how its recently announced paywall will work. From Toby Manhire at Spinoff: New Zealand media push notifications cannot often be accused of downplaying news, but the Herald’s announcement this afternoon of “one of the biggest New Zealand media moves…
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So here is one of those big debates. Normally they happen over decades but suddenly the earth is shifting and we only have months to get the balance right. And we are dealing with a private corporation that appeared out of nowhere but now forms…
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The right is desperately looking for a new minor support party. We live in an MMP system. The most popular party does not necessarily win even when it gets really upset and does not understand why it could get more votes than that second most…
I found it fascinating that in the wake of the Sri Lankan attacks, their government had the ability to simply shut Facebook and Twitter down, on security grounds. So at least in those countries with a developed and centralized i.t. infrastructure, full regulation is possible.…
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' In a spectacular display of her now blatant hypocrisy, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has accused Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn of - get this - "dragging his heels" in sorting out the Brexit calamity. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Classic. This has been expected for a…
It has taken me a while to comprehend what has happened in Sri Lanka. 321 people killed in churches and hotels because of the coordinated actions of a number of suicide bombers. And news that the Sri Lankan Government was warned a couple of weeks…
The aviation industry are (the) bad guys, right? They charge us an arm and a leg to get us to our well-deserved holiday destinations, cram us into a cabin like sardines in a tin and they are major contributors of global CO2 emissions. To entice…
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We are a torn little lot, aren’t we? We take much pride in our sports people and teams. We love our artists doing well on the global stage. Millions of tourists flock to our shores each year and pay good money to see a famous…
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