Interesting
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12167/127/
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Classic..... you're fogretting the line "Never let the detail get in the way of the sale"
Has anyone sent a copy of the article to TUANZ or are they now trying to create a new spin to spin the spin.
How about a sweepstake on whether the the mainstream media will pick this up and run with it i.e. the Royal New Zeland Herald, ComputerWorld etc?
on2it:How about a sweepstake on whether the the mainstream media will pick this up and run with it i.e. the Royal New Zeland Herald, ComputerWorld etc?
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freitasm:on2it:How about a sweepstake on whether the the mainstream media will pick this up and run with it i.e. the Royal New Zeland Herald, ComputerWorld etc?
No need for a sweepstake, they will no doubt. I was told that they use "leads" from other sites.
Fact is, being OT, that even though we serve 600k people/month, not many New Zealanders go out of their way to read "tech" sites and go through forums. Not many know what's RSS feeds and obviously a lot will wait for things to show up on MSM, even if it's a week late.
I've seen some move on MSM, mainly with blogs being created and other changes to make it "faster". If you want people to know about this little site, the best thing to do is to tell them.
Back to the normal programme.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries
BiggusDoggus: Who in the general public wants to read about that? And more importantly, who would really care?
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freitasm:BiggusDoggus: Who in the general public wants to read about that? And more importantly, who would really care?
Exactly. Politicians use this kind of information as a platform. News media use OECD rankings as a platform as in "New Zealand is doing badly". We all know that bad news sells a lot more - and get more votes. Even if John Doe has no clue that OECD is not more than a lobbying thing...
Every evening we hear "OECD" in the news. It's like it's more important than the government and the country itself...
TinyTim:freitasm:BiggusDoggus: Who in the general public wants to read about that? And more importantly, who would really care?
Exactly. Politicians use this kind of information as a platform. News media use OECD rankings as a platform as in "New Zealand is doing badly". We all know that bad news sells a lot more - and get more votes. Even if John Doe has no clue that OECD is not more than a lobbying thing...
Every evening we hear "OECD" in the news. It's like it's more important than the government and the country itself...
Isn't the MED's motivation behind the whole unbundling and Telecom separation thing to get us up the OECD rankings? And if those rankings are flawed then that could be embarrassing at best, or cause a lot of taxpayers' money to be wasted through unnecessary regulation at worst.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries
.... e.g. it says 59.4% of NZ connections have a speed of less than 256 kb/s, and 40.6% between 256kb/s and 512 kb/s. Huh?
EDIT: should add source: Market Clarity report, figure 4
In a letter to iTWire, OECD economist, Taylor Reynolds, has responded to claims by research firm Market Clarity that the OECD's regular reports comparing broadband uptake in member nations are based on inaccurate source data. According to the OECD, Market Clarity's report "has serious methodological and factual errors".
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