FRIDAY ROUND UP.

Questions of the day.

How often does Sue Kedgley visit her twinnie sister and does she use her snapper card?

Does Women's Affairs have the biggest taxi bill of any government department per capita?

When are the rich and famous in Auckland going to start owning the P problem and do something about it?

Who paid for Chris Carters trip to Samoa and how much did he achieve?

Isn't Trevor Mallard a great blogger?

Isn't it fabulous to have Jock Anderson back in the saddle at NBR?

Anyone sick of Whitebait yet?

PAYING FOR THE NEWS -YIP BUT MAKE IT QUALITY BARRY

We are more than happy to pay for good stuff, good shoes, good make up , and good wine, lunches and dinners for good info. So we have no hesitation paying for NBR's online subscription. It makes good sense as long as NBR continues to deliver the very high quality articles that have dripped from the pens of the likes of Rob Hosking, Chris Keall, David Cohen Matthew Hooton and David Farrar in the past few months. If, after six months we dont get value for money - we will kick it for touch.

It has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Review. You pay for the premium content. It will be driven by demand and we think there is a demand. The continued popularity of Transtasman already attests to the popularity of "insider" premium analysis, news and dare we point to the elephant in the room - gossip....

So Barry , yet again you have shown that you happily put your well earned money where your mouth is.

We will sign up. Its simply the smart thing to do. Newspapers may die, ( makes you wonder what we will wrap our fish in chips in and cover the bottom of the budgie cage with) but online news is where its at and where it will end up.

And for all the believers that news will be forever free- yip the crap stuff maybe but the reality is the overshiny stuff wont last. In the end the demand will be for the best, the fastest and the most accurate and incisive and undoubtedly the most interesting - News and info that gives individuals and companies a turbo boost down the information highway will be a must have. And we will gladly pay for it.

HAERE RA

Well folks its good bye from us. We were going to do all sorts of weird shit tonight to keep people guessing about why Roarprawn ceased operating at midnight tonight.

The simple fact of the matter is that we are going to work for a Ministry full time. Yip a public servant gig. As my mum says - a real job...We start tomorrow.

And the State Services Act is a bit of a bitch if you want to be a political commentator. Now we are fairly well positioned as a National Govt cheer leader but from time to time we have to put down our pom poms and give them a piece of our mind and , well you cant do that when you are a public servant. And we are not all that anonymous. After all we have been on telly.

We have had a ball blogging , its fun, outrageous and has ignited the old journo within. We were starting to get some decent numbers again too - up around the 1000 a day.

Now, who knows what will happen in the future - so we wont delete the prawn - but we will locked it away for a while. If someone wants to buy it - well email me on bustedblonde@gmail.com

To all my fellow bloggers, keep up the bastards honest.


Love you all...... BB

FAIRFAX DOWN GRADED.

It doesnt surprise us that Fairfax has been downgraded by Standard and Poors ... We still reckon we will be one Sunday paper down by Xmas.

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY

All round the world the dead tree press are falling over or shifting quickly to a online formats as the primary source. We have already blogged on the phenomenon. We have it on good authority that one of the Sunday papers will be gone by Christmas.

Sad or the dawn of a new age of information?

ONLINE NEWS UP FOR SALE?

Rupert Murdoch says within a year people will be paying for online Newspapers. he's been selling a version of the Wall Street journal for a while and on the back of that success he is looking at applying the same regime to other papers in his stable.
Guido sees the future clearly He calls it the Blogalypse.

The new age cometh. The dead tree press days are numbered. Imagine what that will do to save the planet.