It was important for the industry to lift its game on customer service to head off competitors like Google and Apple and recoup billions of dollars invested in super-fast 4G network and spectrum licences, [Optus chief Ken Russell] said. ”It makes me nervous that two core competitors have brand recognition with customers that is fundamentally... - http://blog.jurgen.ca/post...
zablotny: ‘photos every day’ this is a spot by tbwa/chiat/day for apple, called ‘photos every day’. the craft is fantastic, and there’s some subtle, unusual attention to detail in it. let’s take a look at the sound mix. here’s a waveform of the spot: and now here’s the waveform of a conventionally mixed spot — this is that ‘old spice’ commercial... - http://blog.jurgen.ca/post...
THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace (by The Glossary)
I find these things that add unnecessary video to a perfectly good audio track to be a bit silly, so I minimised the window and just listened to the audio. It’s really good. - http://blog.jurgen.ca/post...
While politicians argue over the cost and the mix of technologies used to deliver a national broadband network, one aspect of the infrastructure-building project has become clear since the opposition released its NBN alternative plan: both sides of politics now agree to build it. - http://blog.jurgen.ca/post...
In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” said Heins while at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles. “Maybe a big screen in your workplace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model,” [Thorsten Heins] added. - http://blog.jurgen.ca/post...
On buses, it will be made possible to buy and top up a myki card, and bus drivers will be urged to take a tougher line on passengers who do not touch on. Buses have already been installed with myki equipment in preparation for the change. - http://blog.jurgen.ca/post...
Decades ago, I filled my head with the lyrics to this one, and they’re still in there.
I could have posted the “regular” version, but this acoustic one is kind of interesting, once you sit through the jokes at the beginning. - http://blog.jurgen.ca/post...
Mr Nasser [formerly of Ford in the USA] lamented that Australians were not ”emotionally connected” to the car industry. ”I’m disappointed in some of the rhetoric that I hear, where it’s clear that the general feeling in Australia is that they’re not patriotic around their automotive industry. In most countries around the world they are emotional... - http://blog.jurgen.ca/post...
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I have nothing to add. - http://blog.jurgen.ca/post...
Mr Okajima, general manager of the Sydney office of Japan’s biggest railway company, is waiting for the day Australia builds a high-speed rail line between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, the subject of a federal government study. - http://blog.jurgen.ca/post...