Just noticed this piece from the Start-Up guys in the Herald about Readwriteweb.com being syndicated in the New York TImes. What a coup for the website’s Lower Hutt-based founder Richard MacManus. Here’s a recording of a presentation Richard gave about Readwriteweb at a conference in Auckland last month.
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Ever listened to Pandora, the fantastic web-streaming radio station that learns from your music music-listening habits and suggests new music you’ll probably like? Well, Pandora hasn’t been available to most users outside the US since its owners had to pull the plug on international service when the RIAA demanding crippling royalties for streaming music worldwide. According [...]
A discussion with Bfm’s Imogen Neale on Philips pull-out of the Australasian TV market and the performance of the ICT spokespeople in the TVNZ7 Internet debate.
Listen here.
Now that I have a fulltime job I don’t get to watch Good Morning and all the other shows that brighten up the daytime TV schedule for stay at home moms and freelance (flea ranch?) writers. There’s precious little to watch in the evenings since my Sky dish went slightly out of alignment during a [...]
I was in the audience at Avalon last night to watch the TVNZ7 Internet debate, which was effectively the first of many political debates we’ll be subjected to in the run-up to the election.
Ostensibly, it was a good idea and the format worked well enough, though it was unfortunate that the debate only really warmed [...]
My piece on Nigel Stanford, who helped build Trade Me, Star Now, Findsomeone and is now delving into film with Rubber Monkey is now up on the Idealog website. Check it out here, NÃgel is the overlooked star of the New Zealand web-devleopment scene.
The nine-page paper was published today in the British Medical Journal.
The study examined 409 children in five NZ communities between the ages of 6 and 12 with diagnosed asthma, both before and after more effective heating was installed in their homes. The better heating included heat pumps, flued gas heaters or pellet burners.
Compared with children [...]
Scanning the shelves of Warehouse Stationery today looking for a whiteboard for the office, I was surprised to see the whiteboard’s main ingredient… yep, melamine. Looks like the Chinese got their whiteboards and what the American’s call “whitener” (powdered milk) mixed up.
Simon Morton and I take Google Chrome for a test drive and discuss TelstraClear’s spoiler tactic in the mobile market. Audio here…