Sandy tagged me… The meme instructions are as follows: put up a screenshot of your desktop, add yourself to the Free Viewers list and tag 5 other people to do the same. Don’t think of it as a chain…
Deborah Hill Cone writes here specifically about financial journalists. The gist of her piece is that financial journalists are, en masse, the last people anyone should listen to for advice. The thought being that if you’re a savvy and…
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
Following on from my previous post where I told of Facebook warning me about apparently dodgy messages that I was alleged to have been posting on Facebook, I just received the following email; Hi Ben, We’ve investigated this further,…
Another NZ specific post here – first a summary for the offshore folks. Michael Stiassny sits on a number of boards of listed companies and has a reputation as a heavy handed chairman. Some months ago he went behind…
Sorry to my international readers to whom this will have little relevance but I really needed to comment on this. Past NZ media star Susan Wood took up a job a week ago as GM of a local business …
Adobe stated at the web 2.0 summit hat it figures that within 10 years all of its products will be delivered via the web (ie SaaS as I define it – in the clouds). Bob discussed the practicalities –…
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…
So… Noel Leemings, one of NZ’s biggest electronic retailers, hired Erin Brokovich to front a marketing campaign for them. Readers of the NZ herald newspaper said; “Customer service is non-existent,” one reader wrote while another described visiting the store…