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In 1995, La Trobe University student publication Rabelais ran a feature entitled The Art of Shoplifting, which highlighted student poverty a decade before it became an election platform. Now it and student media publications around Australia are facing relative poverty themselves.
Since Voluntary Student Unionism was introduced by the then Liberal Australian Government in mid-2006, Australian student media have been starved of funds.
VSU was introduced with the aim of removing the obligation for tertiary students to pay for and be members of student unions. The Punch interviewed representatives from three student publications and the response was the same: VSU has curtailed the potential of student media to add to a vibrant university culture.
2009 Rabelais editor Leticia Quintana is unapologetic. "The thing I got the most flak for I wasn't expecting to because I thought it was so funny," she began. Rabelais ran a series of stories that made light of the attached college's DC link file sharing system. The stories, entitled 'Careless Whispers', resulted in the file sharing system being shut down.
"Basically this means that hundreds of students have been deprived of pornography, free music, television and illegal movie downloads," she said. Quintana did not intend to cause the system's cessation but "it made for great news." Rumours that the college kids would retaliate by throwing a brick through Quintana's window did not eventuate. "People are reading (Rabelais), they're getting pissed off, but they're not doing anything," Quintana said. "I guess it's a sign of the times."
As a federal policy, VSU has had an impact on student newspapers Australia-wide since its introduction. The effects at the University of Adelaide's On Dit, which once housed Sydney Morning Herald political correspondent Annabel Crabb and Punch editor David Penberthy, have been stark. Circulation has halved from 4000 to 2000; editors are now unpaid, it appears fortnightly instead of weekly and has been forced to shrink from tabloid to a magazine size. Just one editorial team contested the incumbent team for the 2010 position.
An underlying theme of the VSU debate was a belief that a by-product of the policy would be to remove power from student media, and this appears to have happened. Student magazines were seen to be inherently left wing and therefore generally opposed to the Howard Government. It's an idea that UTS Vertigo editor David Bennett is familiar with: "Your magazine will always be influenced by your audience. Students naturally are more left wing. Not all students, but some, and so you have within the publication a point which everything revolves around."
In a response to a Punch survey of student media editors on the effects of VSU, current On Dit editor Steph Walker said: "When we can give all views, we publish articles to that effect – when we cannot, we do not publish. For issues such as censorship we are happy to publish the one view when we see it as being rather black and white. We have published pieces on, say, abortion, but we always have retaliatory articles to equal out the voices. As the current Editor I believe that editors be apolitical and independent. While we may not always adhere to this ethos, we do our best."
Perhaps student media simply has to adapt – in the same way that legacy media is – to decreased budgets and a shift online? Not so, argues Leticia Quintana, as increased digital consumption has been a gradual one for media businesses who have had time to manage the transition. "Completely cutting off the funds for something is never going to be helpful for it," she said. "The whole idea behind VSU was not a positive one."
VSU seemingly has a remedy in the Student Amenities Fee, the proposed $250 deferrable payment that will be compulsory for every tertiary student but won't be directed into student activism or unionism. The fee is supported by the Group of Eight universities and the National Union of Students and has been reintroduced into Parliament by Youth Minister Kate Ellis after being defeated in the Senate in August. There is no suggestion that money from the Student Amenities Fee will be directed toward student media but it may free up pressure on their funding bodies, which tend to be students associations and university grants.
Back at UTS, David Bennett from Vertigo is considering that VSU has been, in some ways, a positive influence on the publication. "In some ways it's a good thing as well, because you have people fighting against this lack of funding which does produce a good product. But it doesn't increase the ability for us to think creatively, to have deep and meaningful articles that get to the basis of issues that we pick up in the university community." Until 2006, Vertigo editors were paid and this is a fact that Bennett laments.
"To sit here thinking that I could have (an estimated) $15,000 in my bank account at the end of the year, for what I've done, is a dream. I don't think it should be a dream, I think it should be a reality, because we do put our heart and soul into it… I got through to half way through last semester completely exhausted, because I'd worked like a dog with everyone else."
Incoming On Dit editor Connor O'Brien envisions a publication that responds to issues of the broader Adelaide community as well as those of the student body. In a pre- (or post-) VSU world O'Brien would produce a student publication that had high quality pages and a strong visual direction, a product that stood up critically as well as to its target audience. O'Brien is optimistic: "If it's done well, student media can change the way that students look at their campus. It can give it a personality it wouldn't otherwise have."
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Eric says:
Thinks of it as practice for after graduation. Soon, people who write mainstream newspapers won't be paid either.
R says:
When I enrolled in university and was handed a bill for union membership, I asked why I had to pay for something which I would make no use of. I was told it helped subsidise costs of on-campus activity. I quickly found that it was cheaper for me to join a gym some 20km away than to join the uni's gym. So much for that idea…
I became a big proponent of VSU. After all, why should union membership - at uni or at work - be compulsory? You should join if you think it will benefit you.
Furthermore, I never understood the concept of the university being some kind of miniature, socialist civilisation providing on campus facilities identical to the ones up the road. University should be seen the same way as high-school: a place where you go to get an education and make friends. My school did not provide anything beyond that and I didn't expect uni to do so either.
And no, I don't see the importance of university media. Again, it's as though the university were an independent island with it's own government and services divorced from the real world.
The next step would have been for each university to create its own currency…
Al says:
I don't see why students should be forced to subsidise something they don't want.
If the magazines are such high quality perhaps they should sell them for a price which reflects the cost of their publication rather than for a nominal price or as giveaways.
I studied my LLB externally while working full time and had to pay a fortune in union fees for a range of services I never used. I am now, years later doing a masters, also externally and don't see why I should subsuidise the lifestyles and politics of full time students.
I apply this statement equally to the proposed service fees, which are VSU by strealth.
Ged says:
The editors interviewed in this article are on the money when they say they have to learn from the effects of VSU and make a better quality product. A majority of students aren't going to be to happy having to pay $250 again (or for the first time) if they don't see any returns on their contribution. The old pre-VSU student publications were really political hack pieces but the production of more interactive and apolitical student media is a step in the right direction.
DJC says:
"To sit here thinking that I could have (an estimated) $15,000 in my bank account at the end of the year, for what I've done, is a dream. I don't think it should be a dream, I think it should be a reality…"
And there it is. That quote, by itself, demonstrates exactly what was wrong with Compulsory Student Unionism and why the vast (but silent) majority of students never supported it. Why should dirt poor undergraduates have to dig deep into their pockets to subsidise the lifestyle and politically partisan ramblings of some second year Arts students so they can stroke each others egos over a bong in some hovel in Newtown for being published in a student rag that no one else ever reads? I know most students would prefer to use that money on items that may actually benefit their own academic progress - textbooks, journal subscriptions, rent, food….
And, as loudly as the Student Associations have been squealing it to anyone who will listen since 2006, the Evil Howard Government didn't criminalise student unionism. Thats what the V stands for in VSU. "Voluntary". If I WANT to contribute to the Lesbian Doof Feral Collective, I will. However, I shouldn't be forced to under the threat of witholding my graduation if I don't. Nor should anyone else.
BC says:
I can not agree with you more.I too was a huge proponent of VSU. Infact, I remember getting into a heated argument over the topic when a student union member tried to argue that university had to be more then just working your way through your degree. I am sorry but it is an educational istitution, which can lead to social interation, not the other way around.
I too dont believe in the requirement for a university to have its own student newspaper. If there was a need there for one, then students would be more then happy to pay for the service. Which inturn brings me to the next point.
Profit is a measure of efficency.
If a student newspaper can not be made to cover the cost of the product it is ether grossly inefficent, or the need for such a service isnt warrented.
Im sorry to all the student journalists out there who may find this offencive, but this is how the world outside of university works.
Get used to it.
Sarah Stokely says:
Thank you Kelly, for drawing attention to the sad state of student publishing in 2009. I studied at Adelaide Uni a loong time ago (in the era when David Penberthy, Annabel Crabb and Sam Maiden were involved with On Dit)... and I hadn't even thought about student publications since I graduated - until I returned to uni as a teacher last year.
Last year I taught a session on online publishing for the Express Media conference for new student editors and I was shocked to learn that most student publications haven't been able to move online in a significant way - I suspect largely because VSU has gutted their funding.
I teach publishing and communications at the University of Melbourne and it's my view that universities need to provide avenues for their media students to get experience in print and online publishing, through student publications. I am still trying to figure out exactly how to solve the problem though!
jonathan says:
I paid my compulsory union fee at uni and the only benefit I ever saw was the free uni newspaper. The quality of the journalism was okay, but never as good as the free street press which somehow managed to turn a profit.
The main thing that pissed me off about compulsory student unionism (apart from the young liberal/labor twats that campaigned every year) was the funding for ridiculous social clubs. The Engineering Undergrad Society, by benefit of being the largest "Soc" at University of Queensland, received the most funding from the union fee. This subsidised massive boat cruise pissups, barbecues, pub crawls, pissups, balls and pissups. When paying the union fee means eating 2 minute noodles for the next 2 weeks, seeing this sort of excess is absolutely infuriating.
Andrew says:
The article just makes me realise that the Howard Government got it right with VSU.
Basically, the argument here is that we need to have a compulsory student fee to fund "left wing" activism or as David Bennett from UTS says, "the target audience".
Let's all take a collective breath here. If the student newspaper was worth its salt and actually wanted to be read by the majority of the student population, they'd go out and seek some advertising to pay for the costs of producing it, not by collectively taxing each and every student to reimburse the costs. Just like the local papers do.
It's simply outrageous to suggest that we should all have to pay for the largesse and bias of a student newspaper.
RT says:
VSU has both its merits and disadvantages. The funds from student unionism no doubt paid for some silly and irrelevant activities. It also paid for real tangible student facilities such as good sports facilities. Without the funding of these through student contributions, the universities themselves have stepped up to take over the funding. This has diverted funds away from research and curriculum development. It's not all a happy story.
Steve says:
Sydney Uni Union pays its retail employees $30+/hour and enforces an affirmative action policy (which has the duel effect of making them feel good about themselves and automatically culling a large number of applicants)
The coffee I usually get costs $4.95 on campus. In the CBD you can find places which do the same thing (with better coffee) for $3.
If the union gave a rats ass about students, halving the price of coffee (which costs around 20c to produce) and wages would be a great place to start.
PS: 98% of students would agree that cheeper coffee is far more important than financially supporting the "Palestinian solidarity group".
Brian Ward says:
I have to respectfully disagree with Sarah when she says that "most student publications haven't been able to move online in a significant way" due to funding. This is due to a lack of vision, not money. Anyone with access to the internet on campuses got online in the mid to late 1990s. I was the editor of the UWA Arts faculty paper in 1994; by 1997 I was the Postgraduate Student Association President and publishing a print newsletter, starting a PSA website and email news service and pushing the UWA postgrad journal Limina to abandon print and go online. The latter was stalled for years due to a stubborn refusal of the editorial board to give up the vanity of print.
Print was already dead a decade ago and student papers that have failed to make the transition to online should open their eyes to the reality that their vision, and their business model, has failed.
You don't need a lot of money to deliver online news services, but you do need technical skills, some IT resources, creativity and initiative. These things are (or should be) plentiful on campuses.
Why have student papers not made the most of the opportunities of the digital revolution?
Sarah Stokely says:
Hi Brian,
Students do plenty of creative online projects when they have control over the web infrastructure. I know this because I'm lucky enough to teach some of them. I suspect you underestimate the amount of control students have over both the allocation of funding and the technical infrastructure available to them.Cheers,
papachango says:
Good to read some sensible comments about VSU - I remember the Northcote luvvies squealing like stuck pigs when it was introduced. You'd think Howard had murdered their children.
I wasn't really into politics at uni, so I'm still mildly annoyed that I forked over a couple of thousand to susidise mainly socialist/communist crap newspapers and other radical leftwing groups. I suppose it it did have one positive effect, I saw though the collossal thieving con-job that socialism is.
Supposedly some of it went to subsidise the food in the Melbourne Uni union building, but they shouldn't have bothered - it was rubbish and nearby Lyon street was much better and cheaper, despite being unsubsidised.
AFR says:
During my time at Sydeny Uni in the mid 90's all the publications were rubbish. Full of art's student self-importance, and taking pot-shots at college students.
stephen says:
University is a training/thinking ground. Paying union fees encourages involvment in , not only student politics, but politics. Being a part of a group that wishes the best for those that contribute -and even those that DON'T - is a fine way to learn to share, and I think Universities can teach, as well as 'pub' skills, worthwhile social skills.
Josh says:
If Universities are a training/thinking ground, isn't VSU the best solution?
Paying Union fees simply FORCES students to join these Unions, which, either by accident or design, encourage involvement in 'left-wing' politics.
If these places really are institutions that encourage thinking, I believe that having any fees be voluntary is more likely to precipitate this action, rather than simply making students pay for social groups and/or services that they have no use for.
TimT says:
I went to Sydney Uni and the journals there were Honi Soit and UR (Union Recorder). UR doesn't really exist any more, but Honi Soit does. I was surprised when I logged on to the Sydney Uni website recently to find that Honi Soit doesn't have any significant web presence. They load up the PDFs of their print onto the web, but that's it.
This is just silly. The editors could easily set up a wordpress page for free, and they'd have a lot of control over the format and the contentt. Why don't they do this? Possible reasons:
a) Poor organisation
b) Lack of imagination
c) No sustained leadership (different editors take over each year, which results in - poor organisation)
d) Possibly an over-zealous approach to page design - an attitude that the way the print issue is designed should be preserved on the web.
e) Poor organisation.As to the circulations of student publications being cut, well, in reality thousands of copies of the paper typically go unread each week, and must eventually be dumped - the publishers typically whack the publications in great boxes in campus buildings, alongside issues of street press mags, activity booklets and the like. It's an inherently wasteful process, done more for the vanity of the editors, writers and publishers than any concern to connect with an audience.
Student editors can also be needlessly stubborn and unpractical - I remember once hearing one saying that they would *never* accept advertising from certain institutions, like the army, and maybe even corporations he disagreed with (McDonalds? can't remember now).
Anyway, main point, there are plenty of sensible ways of cutting costs and making student publications more sustainable in the long-term. Student editors should get onto it , before somebody with a bit more initiative does, or even starts up a better publication in competition to their own.
pippu says:
paying student fees was always the ultimate irony… it was supposed to encourage uni life, but a lot of students spent hours working to just pay the damn things, along with text books etc.. so i always felt it was a subsidy for building up more affluent students social lives and resumes…. student press should learn produce a paper that can appeal to many, not their fringe interests, and get readership up and in turn get adverstising. it is not sucumbing to evils of capitalism, it is about learning to operate in the real world and how most media organisations operate…
Jasper says:
To those who complain that University Guilds are "left-wing" organisations I have one comment to make: if they are left wing it is because the left wing students are more motivated and actually vote in Guild elections.
Instead of decrying the "obvious left wing bias" of the Uni Guilds, wouldn't it be a better idea to get involved and try and wrest control? Or maybe the lack of votes for the more right-wing candidates is an indication of how committed to the political process right-wing students are.
And as for the fees paying for services that you may not use - welcome to the real world! For the whole of the Howard years I paid my taxes and received nothing in return, being single and without children there was no middle class welfare for me. I can't really see what the difference is, at Uni there were students who used many of the services that the Guild provided and even though I wasn't one of them I understood the general need.
But it all boils down to involvement: if you don't like the Guild reps - then vote, if there is no Guild club for your interest - create one. Just don't deny the opportunity to others to have a full and involved university life just because you can't be bothered getting involved yourself.
And yes, I was a poor self-sustaining student for 5 years and I paid my Guild fees for all of those years.
Margaret Gray says:
"...left wing students are more motivated…"
More likely safety in numbers and a desperate cry for group acceptance.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are too busy developing a high paying career for the comrades in the sewing circle to bitch about to be embroiled in the petty and juvenile partisanship of university 'politics' (LOL).
"...For the whole of the Howard years I paid my taxes and received nothing in return, being single and without children there was no middle class welfare for me…."
Save an overwhelming sense of entitlement.
It's not all about YOU, Jasper.
But then:
"...I understood the general need…"
Except when you were 'paying' taxes to a "right-wing" government of course.
Brian Ward says:
Thanks TimT for some common sense. Print as the only method of distribution of not for profit content like student newspapers was better than nothing when noother options existed, but was still far from ideal.
Now we have had the internet on campuses for over a decade there is no excuse for student papers not having been online for years, and more recently for not including interactive feature like article commenting, continuous updates, UGC submissions, mobile access, etc.
The barriers to entry and costs are close to nothing. Print is economically unviable, environmentally unfriendly and slow.
I think the real myth is that all smart young people are digital natives. I've met many who are actually clueless. Perhaps the hipster student journalists can get some much needed advice from the computer club geeks about the interwebs?
Myriam Robin says:
It is inexcusable that student media has been largely only in print form for so many years. That said, I can offer an explanation based on my own experiences.
Fear of defamation charges and the like (not unheard of, as the Rabelais case demonstrated) make most unions uneasy with giving editors and other student volunteers complete control over web content, as it is far harder to control than a fortnightly/monthy print magazine. That said, unions tend to be understaffed post-VSU, and cannot hope to maintain/supervise a website of news, opinion and general under-grad humour on top of their regular duties. So we have a deadlock - where editors are able to provide a website, but are not allowed to, and where the union wishes an effective publication, but cannot afford the time.
At the University of Adelaide, it seems a compromise has been reached for a website in 2010.
Brian Ward says:
It comes back to motivation, initiaitive and organisation. All that is needed is for one student to start an 'unofficial' campus site or blog using a free CMS like Wordpress and, if it was done even moderately well, it could be huge. Surely there must be some examples in Australia already? The hyperlocal model used by Fitzroyalty, The Worst of Perth, RiotACT and Darlinghurst Nights is highly applicable to university campuses.
Jasper says:
Thanks Margaret, for completely misrepresenting my views.
The phrase "...I understood the general need…" was in the same paragraph as the statement about Howard's middle class welfare therefore is part of the same point. That means that while I didn't agree with the level of spending going to those of median income, I understood that there is a general need for some form of support for families.
"It's not all about YOU, Jasper."
Exactly, hence my statement about the general need but I don't see even the slightest indication of this acceptance of a general need coming from the opponents of Guild fees.You should also notice that I put both "left-wing" AND "right-wing" in quotation marks - this should have indicated to you that I believe that accusations of bias in the Guilds (and the media for that matter) are about perspective and not necessarily related to actual bias.
"Meanwhile, the rest of us are too busy developing a high paying career…" Interestingly, all of the friends that I met at uni with high paying careers (corporate lawyers, doctors & engineers) were involved with the Guild. A career and being involved in the society around you are not mutually exclusive.
So again it comes down to a wish to get involved and who knows, it might lead to a lifelong habit.
Paul Montgomery says:
I am a former student newspaper editor myself, mine being Catalyst at RMIT in 1996 when the VSU furore was hot after the Shoplifting article, which indirectly led to funding for Catalyst being slashed halfway through the year. During my time, there was a fair amount of activity in shoveling print content from student newspapers onto the Web, albeit in a haphazard fashion. But TimT is right in that the lack of continuity in editorship - also reflected in "management" of course - means an almost complete lack of long-term direction.
I am torn on the issue of whether student newspapers should be digital only. Yes, it makes economic sense. It reflects changing media structures, so it may actually be better training for budding journos than print, especially if they branch into video or audio. It even speaks to environmental issues, with no trees having to give their lives (though the politics of computer component production are dodgy). However, I still feel that it would be a shame to lose the community aspects of having a communal publication lying around in uni cafeterias and social hotspots for students to talk over and share. The student newspaper gives a university a character, and reflects its values, for better or worse.
I don't think it should be an either/or thing. Student publications should have multi-user Wordpress blogs as adjuncts to their print form. Blogging doesn't cost any more than a print publication would, as you're already paying editor wages (presumably). If the editors don't have the skills, then they should learn, that's part of the job.
RT says:
Margaret Gray, your sneering and inaccurate putdown of Jasper does you no credit. I think his point is well made. Compulsory student fees were similar to taxation in that they provided services available to, but not necessarily used by, all. I couldn't see 'a sense of entitlement' or a reluctance to pay taxes to a 'right wing government' in the comments.
But you clearly are hypersensitive to the merest suggestion of a criticism of the side of politics you so faithfully serve, aren't you?
TimT says:
I agree. At the very least a website is a cheap and easy insurance policy against the threat of the print issue going under. Also a good insurance against other threats to print runs of newspapers: for instance, at Murdoch Uni, METIOR editors recently sprung a member of the uni's executive management dumping large amounts of their paper in the bin. He may have been doing this for months…
Interesting to hear that experience with unions, Myriam. A good insight into the internal workings of student publications, I think!
Margaret Gray says:
"...A career and being involved in the society around you are not mutually exclusive…"
Never said it was.
Happily, one can have a financially rewarding career without being involved in the amorphous world of "left-wing" dominated undergraduate politics.
And being involved in "the society around you" is a pretentious and sophistical argument and certainly not judged by the amount of self-congratulatory volunteer work you do or how much money you give.
Let the rabble at Rabelais eat cake.
Student unionism is a farce and a ruse.
Ask the VSU if paying for buses to ferry 'students' to a protest march is an appropriate use of union fees.
But then I expect the blame for introducing HECS is still viewed by the VSU as part of an ongoing "right-wing" plot to stack campuses with the rich and privileged.
Hilariously, most of these 'editors' are the progeny of wealthy parents and recipients a private school education.
The irony is m a g n i f i c e n t.
Ziggy says:
In my youth I was national President of The Students Union. I can attest, with some authority, that these bodies are a collection of wankers who use the funds for their own petty, irrelevant causes that are far removed from the best interests of all students. Student newspapers only meaningful use is to light fires or wipe up spills or as wrapping for presents etc. Voluntary membership must remain so that students get the union they deserve. As is evidenced by todays results.
MFS says:
The media often refer to VSU as some kind of Howard imposed evil. The fact is, VSU is the right to decide whether or not you join a union. Workers enjoy this right and so should students. I was heavily involved in student politics in WA during VSU under the state Court government. Corruption and mismanagement were absolutely rife. As were born-to-rule mentalities from private school socialists.
The hypocrisy of the left, who complain about fees for degrees on one hand, and fight to defend annual up front fees or the other hand, is disgusting. Compulsory union fees at some universities used to be over $500. The fact is, students don't want to be in the union. If they did, they would have joined under VSU when it was cheaper. As low as $75.
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An anonymous donor has given an early Christmas gift to a Midlands family who hopes their son will be able to walk on his own someday.
Jason and Karen Snyder's 3-year-old son Braxton has Cerebral Palsy and depends on an innovative, but expensive therapy to take the necessary steps to learn to walk by himself.
A special suit made of a series of bands and bungees recently allowed Braxton to take his first steps at The Therapy Place in Columbia.
News 10 produced a story about the little boy and his triumph in early November.
Until that day, Braxton had only been able to crawl or use a walker.
The progress comes at a very high price, though. The "Therasuit" and associated therapy sessions over three weeks cost over $4000.
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EDIT: Every time I use this underneath my eyes, it covers my dark circles very well, but it also makes my under-eye look just plain gross close-up. It looks dry and as if there are very thin, short rolled-up flakes all over my under eye area, if I apply too much. It creases a lot under the eyes (as well as on the lids if you want to even out veins), even when using a tiny amount. I also don't really like using it for blemishes as it is just a tad too pink, but I think the 03 would work perfect, as it really does cover blemishes pretty well (especially if you 'tap' it into the skin with a finger (unhygienic, I know)).
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I thought this was going to be a crappy thing, since it was only $3.95 AUD, but since many people raved about it, I thought lets give it ago. Like $4 what could go wrong (note that the cost of make-up in Australia is crazy expensive!) ? But wow. This thing is amazing. It covers my acne, redness, under eye circles and scars, and the colour Matt Beige is perfect for my skin. It's good for on the go since the packaging is so small and cute. I really love it and of course I will buy it again and again. X
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- 12-24-2008, 03:23 PM Thread Author #1
So what's the difference between BBM and texting
jus curious to know the difference or the benefit of BBM someone with a blackberry vs texting them...
Homer: Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. - 12-24-2008, 03:26 PM #3
Sure, I'll help out a fellow Hokie.
BBM is very similar to using AIM or gchat. Plus it won't count towards your text messaging limit (if you have one). If you happened to have friends in foreign countries with Blackberries, you wouldn't get charged for talking to them via BBM, you would with texting.
Overall, BBM is a more convenient way to converse with someone if you intend on having a nice conversation, plus it won't clutter your Messages inbox. - 12-24-2008, 03:56 PM #4
Time wise its about 6 seconds faster to receive a bbm than a txt. That's on verizon.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com - 12-24-2008, 04:14 PM Thread Author #8
thanks everyone!
Homer: Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. - 12-24-2008, 05:06 PM #12
And you can also send voice notes as well. I LOVE BBM and use it all the time to communicate and send/receive pics with other Blackberry users. I also assume it works just as well with non-Verizon Blackberry users, although all my BB contacts are also with Verizon.
There are 10 types of people in the world - those who know binary, and those who don't - 12-24-2008, 05:21 PM #13
I wish my friends had Blackberries. I have only 5 BBM contacts lol Cheap bastards.
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I'm new to the forums and need some clarification.
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2. My family member in ANOTHER COUNTRY has a blackberry device
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So I will not be charged for using blackberry messenger to another country? - 07-18-2009, 05:08 PM #18For your upgrade/Downgrade Needs
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Using BBM for other contacts
Okay, so one questioned answered. No sms charges for using bbm. However, what if you were to add a friend to bbm who isn't using bbm themselves because they own a Nokia for instance? I know that they will incur sms charges, but will I since I'm using bbm to converse with them?
Re: So what's the difference between BBM and texting
bbm is more than just an sms replacement. you can group chat and even have a group calendar and task list. you can manage large projects and assign tasks to team members all from your smartphone


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December 16, 2008
Body art and the recession: Are job seekers covering up more?
During the past couple of years, articles about whether to hide or proudly display one's tattoos and body piercings in the workplace have become a popular addition to many media outlets covering work/life balance issues.
But yesterday, when I noticed that the Pew Research Center stat of the day stated that 36 percent of Gen Y has a tattoo and 40 percent of Gen X does, I had to wonder: Are people going to greater lengths to hide their body art in this tough job market?
Before the bottom fell out this year and employers started handing out pink slips like Altoids, the conventional wisdom was this: Work in a traditional business sector like banking, finance, or accounting, and you'd best cover up. (In other words, when in Rome...) But work for a dotcom or a smaller, more creative firm, and you'll often get more leeway with regard to body art.
Of course, there are anomalies in every business sector. It's been well documented that a certain Seattle-based coffee chain has a "no body art" policy for its workers. It's also no secret that a certain software giant based in our region doesn't have a problem with off-the-beaten-path hair colors, clothing, and body art.
Once upon a pre-recession time, if a person was committed to working for an employer that didn't require them to hide their body art, they'd seek out more accepting companies by asking folks they knew about their company's culture, spying on employees in the parking lot during summer (when tattoos are more conspicuous), and consulting a web resource like ModifiedMind, which lists the body-art policies of dozens of employers.
But with so many more people looking for work these days, are job hunters who get inked doing so in places that are easier to cover up (even in summer)? And are hopeful employees who already have body art taking greater pains to cover up, in the event that the hiring manager on the other side of the interview desk isn't tattoo or piercing friendly? I'm curious. And if you've got a story to share, either from the employee or employer side, I'd love to hear it.
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I don't think I've ever been in an interview that anyone mentioned my tattoos. The ones that are in locations everyone can see are small and simple (A raven on my right wrist is one). However, I don't have a job that requires me to interact with patients/clients/customers, either. I'm fortunate in having had bosses who look at the quality of my work rather than what's on the body doing it. If anyone ever did have a problem with it, they can then speak to HR, because it doesn't affect my work and is religiously significant to me.
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With last night's 104-84 loss to the New York Knicks, the Charlotte Bobcats completed the NBA season with a record of 7-59 and a .106 winning percentage.
The Bobcats broke the record for worst winning percentage in NBA history, sinking below the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers who posted a 9-73 record (.110).
The Bobcats' seven wins is the worst win total since the Providence Steamrollers went 6-42 in 1947-48. The Bobcats' number is obviously skewed by this year's lockout-shorted 66-game season (16 games shorter than the standard 82-game season).
I'll let you speculate on how many additional wins the Bobcats would pick up if they had 16 more games.
The Charlotte Bobcats suffer through loss #57. (Photo by Chuck Burton/Associated Press)
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A fire fighter stated upon arrival, rescue crews found a van lending on its side into a guard rail. Further investigation states a Chevrolet Cavalier was traveling eastbound on Manchester Road and didn't stop and t-boned a minivan traveling northbound on Union Road.
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I've been using the Google Navigation recently and each and every time (tried it about 5 times), with varying weather each time (from rainy and cloudy to perfectly clear) it takes my phone a solid 5 full minutes to lock on to a GPS signal. Is this common? If not, is there anything that can be done to speed it up?
Honestly, at 5 minutes to wait, its completely not even worth using Navigation. - 10-13-2012, 06:25 PM #2
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Not normal... mine locks in less then 30 seconds every time...
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No, I didn't. Is that a common fix?
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I had this problem when I was running an early JB rom. Are you stock or running a ROM of some sort?
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I didn't experience that kind of problems but once when I was killing some enemies in the desert I had some audio issues. When I tried to shoot to the left I had no sound at all and sometimes it was front. That kinda stuff but it went away after the mission (don't know the name though).
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Rarely any framerate issues but my audio did just glitch up. The game suddenly muted itself and when I tried to access the options/load a previous save, the game crashed. Probably a one time thing, made me stop playing for once. Actually I just remembered my frame rate did drop a bit at the scene with ashelin, the sandstorm apparently at the same time was a bit too much. But besides that no other framerate drops, yet.
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