I've never come across Key before but their site says their specialist areas are local & regional council and agribusiness.

Their "Our people" page only has PR fluff... "Our people are top research professionals..." without naming a single person. And check out "Our Clients" for an example of pointless, flashy design.

https://keyresearch.co.nz/about-us/our-clients/

I'd be concerned by their purchasing of email lists to send spam.

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There's a world cup?

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They spent $700 grand building an ego-stroking site for a building?

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What a scary mess of a site. Oversized, animated graphics everywhere, including that annoying, full-screen, pink blob animation which loads first on new pages. I'd have to disable that if I used the site regularly.

And the functionality is questionable. Because I'm reading David Mitchell at the moment, I did a search for his name. The Te Matapihi site thought about it for too long then produced zero results.

I checked the Dunedin Library site which is simple and just works... 89 results displayed instantly.

As a regular user of library web sites, I'd be disappointed if I had to navigate this mess. The over-cooked graphic approach will never work for me. Give me functionality and simplicity any day.

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No doubt from the marketing school which brought us:

"Subscribe to the London Review of Books and receive 3 bonus issues of Massive Knockers Monthly."

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Bless them. I used to have VHS tapes of their early work, and probably still do if I searched hard enough. Their use of real conversations as soundtracks was refreshing and unique at the time.

Love their work.

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Returning to a 4:3 screen seems backward. Even worse, most phone owners will stick with the vertical format and suddenly online images will be like looking at an old tele turned sideways.

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There's been a M7.8 in the Philippines.

Metservice is now advising: "No tsunami threat to New Zealand", thank God.

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Environment Southland produced a major report on nitrate pollution in Southland’s groundwater which showed worsening levels at most sites they monitor. The report blames "intensive farming, notably dairying and winter grazing of dairy cattle."

ES sent copies in advance to Fonterra, dairy giant Open Country and DiaryNZ. ES refer to these groups as "stakeholders". Then they tried to bury the report without making any fuss, bunging it in an online portal with no press release.

Luckily, the ODT found it.

Despite nitrate pollution being a major public health issue, ES didn't alert either Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ) or WellSouth because "they did not have any contacts."

Clumsy cover-up... meet gross incompetence.

As @nprofile1q... said earlier, Environment Southland is the poster child for regulatory capture in NZ.

https://archive.ph/2f2KD#selection-1381.18-1381.40

#EnvironmentSouthland #Dairy #Nitrate