Tag Archives: NBR

10 ways that NBR.co.nz can fix its comments

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

One would think that The Wall Street Journal comments would be rancid. After all it’s a right wing capitalist newspaper in the bastion of all that is right wing and capitalist. And yes, the comments do skew a certain way. … Continue reading →

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Even easier way to get around NBR’s copy protection

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

In the comments to the last post Mr. Annonymous said: “The Biggest problem they’ll have is that this takes 29 characters of javascript to avoid completely $(“span.copyright”).remove(); Or, available as a lovely simple bookmarklet: http://xrl.us/NBRSuperHax” To translate – all we … Continue reading →

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How to get around NBR’s copy protection

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

NBR today put in place copy protection for its articles. Basically the page injects hidden HTML into the text, so that “Princess Wharf developer David Henderson goes back to his creditors today to see if he can win support for … Continue reading →

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Fix the basics NBR.co.nz

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

The NBR’s website went through an upgrade just before the end of last year. It wasn’t smooth sailing for them, but the timing, when everyone was away at the beach, was smart. However the site is still in a bit … Continue reading →

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The iPad and our Kiwi websites

Posted on April 5, 2010 by

I’ve picked up an iPad (and hopefully several more for some other folks) here in San Francisco, and decided to test it out on a host of sites. Some pass, some fail and some need some work. This is a … Continue reading →

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NBR’s Barry Colman replies

Posted on December 3, 2009 by

Tonight I appear on Russell Brown’s Media7 as part of a panel with Julie Starr on Murdoch, Google and so on. I’ll post about that soon – it was an interesting and fun first time TV experience. Yesterday however, Chris … Continue reading →

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NBR’s performance since the subscription wall was built

Posted on November 29, 2009 by

Back in mid July the NBR decided to put a chunk of their content behind a subscription wall. I was one of many amateur untrained unqualified bloggers that not only objected to being characterised as such, but was pretty scathing … Continue reading →

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NBR increases sales

Posted on July 31, 2009 by

It appears as though I made it to the front page of the NBR today. It was in an article written to defend the seemingly arbitrary and certainly poorly implemented decision last week to charge outrageous fees for access to … Continue reading →

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NBR continues their descent into madness

Posted on July 24, 2009 by

Here’s NBR homepage, above the fold, this morning. I’ve helpfully crossed out in red the articles that are subscriber only, and in black the one article that has a bad link (which I suspect would be subscriber only anyway). Note … Continue reading →

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The NBR is in trouble – what should they do?

Posted on July 17, 2009 by

I’ve been really impressed with the NBR in recent times – their website was going from strength to strength, and their writing was increasingly excellent. I even praised writer Chis Keall, who writes for (but I understand is not employed … Continue reading →

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