With a hat tip to David (who I usually argue with about somewhat higher brow issues) have a look at the following two vids. There’s (I guess) a decade between them but in terms of how far we’ve come…
With a hat tip to Zoli I commend anyone with any degree of ambivalence to what Web2.0 offers society to view the following. It’s beautiful, powerful, persuasive and exciting.. all at once
I just got an email from Facebook that said; Hello, You have been sending harassing messages to other users. This is a violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use. Among other things, messages that are hateful, threatening, or obscene are…
Mark Weldon announced today his perception that the NZ stock exchange is “fragile”. The New Zealand government has called for a workshop to address the issues, Weldon stated that; “I think New Zealand is reasonably fragile in some senses…
As a foil to the recent somewhat heated discussion about whether or not it is appropriate to actually make things in this country anymore, I invite you to read this article. I like to shop at farmers markets, I…
David and I had a lengthy dialogue over the weekend regarding the appropriateness or otherwise of actually making things in New Zealand. Those interested can read it here. Basically (and to paraphrase David’s comments) he felt that manufacturing in…
Following on from the Radiohead album release, a buddy sent me the link to this post that discusses some different models for the music industry. The post comes up with the following models; Free If music is becoming ubiquitous,…
Last last year film student Nicholas Hudak made a short film profiling some players in the New Zealand apparel scene. The film, entitled Triple Bottom Line sought to show the changes that occur when an industry moves to offshore…
This morning The Herald published this article which, in essence, warned of a retail downturn caused by the downturn in the housing market and the recent collapse of finance companies. I’ve also run into some friends recently who have…
As expected, Phil O’Reilly reacted to recent survey results showing a decrease in business compliance costs by saying that the recently introduced Kiwisaver will reverse that trend. I’ve got two things to say here; Kiwisaver is, on a macroeconomic…