Comments on: NBR continues their descent into madness

By: NBR’s performance since the subscription wall was built « Lance Wiggs

NBR’s performance since the subscription wall was built « Lance Wiggs — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:48:39 +0000

[...] unqualified bloggers that not only objected to being characterised as such, but was pretty scathing about the decision to lock away the content. NBR in turn referred I guessed to myself and others as [...]

By: Lance Wiggs

Lance Wiggs — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:34:53 +0000

By: Campbell Yule’s Blog » NZ Building Consent Process

Campbell Yule’s Blog » NZ Building Consent Process — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:14:41 +0000

[...] through the NBR Online the other day (no not the paid subscription – you can read here, here and here what Lance Wiggs has to say about that!) and I came across this article that caught my [...]

By: NBR increases sales « Lance Wiggs

NBR increases sales « Lance Wiggs — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:52:08 +0000

[...] was in an article written to defend the seemingly arbitrary and certainly poorly implemented decision last week to charge outrageous fees for access to a part of NBR’s online content: [...]

By: Chris Hutching

Chris Hutching — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:43:24 +0000

I can see why you guys are so frustrated. The standard of your comments suggests to me that the concept of paid “journalism” is a mystery to you (actually interviewing people, obtaining documents, witnessing real events).
Keep chattering among yourselves. Some of us have money to make out of uncovering “news” (something new, useful, interesting unusual, exclusive, insightful) as opposed to blathering about whatever passes by.

By: Lance Wiggs

Lance Wiggs — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:19:43 +0000

damn. you are right – I will change it now.

By: Matt Harman

Matt Harman — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:30:18 +0000

You might want to double check the labels on your Nielsen graph – think you’ll find it’s actually the other way around (interest declining and NBR actually up)….your way makes more sense of course, but it’s not the numbers i’m seeing in Nielsen.

By: izogi

izogi — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:10:54 +0000

Maybe they’re gauging popularity by only counting the views of registered and signed in users? ie. People who can un-biasedly read whatever they like on the site. Okay, perhaps not, but to me that would seem the fairest way for a partial subscription site to rank its content. It’d be nice regardless if they stated clearly where the rankings were coming from.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:30:23 +0000

Barry, you have clearly lost the plot and if I was working at the NBR I would be very worried about my Job. Charging for content like this in lil ol NZ, what a joke!

By: Bryan Spondre

Bryan Spondre — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:06:25 +0000

Bloody hell NBR have edited out Bernard from their You Tube version of the Media 7 interview ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEFb2HIdhfs) , you can see the whole unedited version here : http://bit.ly/uWF1X