Category Archives: Blogroll

03/08/2009 Posted in Blogroll, New Zealand, Society 1 Comment

Judge and Jury – Fair Process Anyone?

By Ben Kepes

I posted a few weeks ago about the Clayton Weatherston trial – that post garnered a number of comments, many of which were along the lines of “everyone deserves their day in court and the presumption of innocence). This morning I was reading the NZ Herald and came across this

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30/10/2008 Posted in Blogroll, SaaS, The Cloud 1 Comment

And the Winner Is…..

By Ben Kepes

After an unprecedented response (people are so shallow out there – you offer something free and they swarm like vultures) the time has come to make the draw in the Diversity Bleeding Edge Competition. First though I’d like to run you through the exceptionally high tech process used to decide

12/08/2008 Posted in Blogroll, Collaboration, Design, IT, Society 3 Comments

Ever decreasing circles

By Ben Kepes

Sarah posted over on RWW questioning the future for blogging. She questioned whether lifestreaming (which I’m officially terming digital diarrhoea from now on) will replace blogging as the digital trend de jour. In her post Sarah states that; There was a time when casual, personal blogging was your way to

05/08/2008 Posted in Blogroll, Design, Efficiency, IT 2 Comments

It shouldn’t be that hard…

By Ben Kepes

I write for a couple of blogs. The one you’re reading, diversity.net.nz uses a self-hosted version of wordpress.com, one of the most widely known blogging software offerings around (WordPress offers both self-hosted and WordPress hosted blogs). The other blog I write for from time to time is ReadWriteWeb, one of

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29/07/2008 Posted in Blogroll, Design, Efficiency, IT, Society, Strategy 3 Comments

On ad-blockers and free content

By Ben Kepes

David Risley posts about his feelings upon discovering that some of his readers are using ad blockers. David’s blog, PCMech, is a professional deal that costs significant amount of money to run, ads are the way he does this. David contends that by blocking those ads the user is in

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23/07/2008 Posted in Blogroll, Design 6 Comments

New Diversity mobile optimized site

By Ben Kepes

For those readers who can’t cope with being away from Diversity at all times – I’m stoked to say that this morning I rolled out a mobile version of the blog. Set to auto-sense phones and PDAs, mobile users get a nice svelte experience that is quick and mobile-data light.

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21/07/2008 Posted in Blogroll 5 Comments

CEO blogging…

By Ben Kepes

CEO of Xero Rod Drury posted the other day, saying that his blogging days, after five or so years, were coming to an end. This comes hard on the heels of Mahalo CEO Jason Calcanis’ announcement that he too is giving up blogging. It seems that the trend du jour

17/07/2008 Posted in Blogroll, Design, IT, Web x.0 1 Comment

Please make it easy for people ZDNet….

By Ben Kepes

I spend rather a lot of time reading and commenting upon blogs. I’m also part of various different community website’s. One thing that has struck me is the huge difference in registration complexity between sites. Take this morning for instance – Garett Rogers had an interesting little post over on

24/05/2008 Posted in Blogroll Leave a comment

Email syndication

By Ben Kepes

My buddy Kim Potter (aka Vinyl Burns) lives on his Treo, he requested email syndication for this blog. In a continuous attempt to deliver what people want, Diversity Blog now has email syndication – accessed from just below the RSS feed icons on the right hand side of the page.

27/04/2008 Posted in Blogroll 4 Comments

First Birthday!

By Ben Kepes

One year ago today the first posting to what would eventually become Diversity Blogs was made. It seemed then an opportune time for a little reflection and statistical measurement; 841 posts 1112 comments 8 contributors (some major some less so!) What initially started as a forum to discuss the place

The Author

Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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