Blog Bits

  1. Neil Sanderson has research from Pew. In 2008, the number of people gettign their news off the went from 24% to 40%, beating newspapers at 34% for the first time.  Tv remains top at 70R% but is slowly declining.
  2. Chris Trotter has a repost of a 2001 address he gave on defence. Many may be surprised by his views. I found myself agreeing with much of it!
  3. Tim Blair notes that *only* 1,147 cars were burnt in France on New Year's Eve, which was described by authorities as “rather calm”
  4. MacDoctor finds the new English requirements for foreign as idiotic at a time of nursing shortages, and points out most NZ nurses could not meet the new standard.