Incompetent – check the spelling….. [update] Fixed now.
Monthly Archives: December 2006
new news sites
Stuff and NZHerald upgraded late last week. I should really, and much before now, have commented on the new design of both. Frankly neither of them really do it for me and I have simply stopped looking at them. The sunny days probably have something to do with it… Friday page impressions were up against …
Another Motorcyclist off to South America
I’m going to start getting really jealous soon. Annette is either a Kiwi living in the UK or English with Kiwi connections. She’s on a trial ride right now around New Zealand, and then off to Argentina just before Christmas – riding a BMW of course….
Rod Drury sees the Yahoo!Xtra (what an unwieldy name) tie-up as creating opportunities for other players. He asks: What does Microsoft do? The choices are go it alone or tie up with a media company – pick one from TVNZ, TV3, APN or Fairfax. My pick is TVNZ, followed by APN. What is the homepage …
Reselling tickets takes a step backwards
Two disturbing articles today – one that eBay UK will not allow reselling of tickets to the giant Concert for Diana, and the second that New Zealand is introducing laws restricting re-sales of tickets to “big events” to a maximum of face value. People – you cannot fight economics, and you will lose in the …
46% of Asian internet users have a blog…
The blogging stats get bigger and bigger it seems, but this one comes via an online survey from Microsoft MSN & Windows Live in seven markets in Asia – notably excluding China. With a self selected respondant set – it isn’t surprising to see bloggers over-respond to a survey on blogging – these numbers have …
The online dating timeline…
A great dating site thought starter from Fred Stutzman via David Evans at onlinedatingpost.. “Situational relevance and the patterns of decay based on the lifecycle of users.” Dating sites should take notice of this. A member during the first week or two does not have the same needs as a one year member. Most sites …
Yahoo!Xtra
Yahoo!7 has officially tied up with Xtra- to create Yahoo!Xtra for New Zealand, launching March 1, 2007. With Yaho0!7 owning 51% of the JV there is hope for a great site. But early signs of the continued amateur hour are a non-existent yahooxtra.co.nz site, although at least AJ PArk has registered yahooxtra.co.nz and yahooxtra.com (and …
Shooting
It’s good to live in a country where policemen get hauled over the coals for firing a pistol at an inappropriate moment – even when nobody is harmed. Make sure everybody conforms to the law, but start with those that do the enforcing.
NZHerald follows suit…
NZHerald announced their redesign today – it’s looking good, and they left the logo alone… It’s been a transition year for Stuff and the NZHerald, as they have shufled staff and changed systems. Next year should see them both move into a welcome cycle of continuous improvement.
no coke, but what about the rest?
Coke is on the way out from schools, and well done to get the sugary syrup kings to the table. But hang on – fruit juices are also pretty high in sugar – if not higher than Coke and Pepsi. And diet drinks are pretty nasty… What is going on here? This seems like a “feels …
not cricket
I happened to see live the cowardly NZ dismissal of Muttaih Muralitharan, who was run out after he turned to celebrate his fellow batter’s century. The game may have pivoted on this run-out. Our cricketers should be ashamed – this is under-arm bowling stuff and is, of course, just not cricket. I put this up …
French bloggers
apparently one out of three people in France blogs. incroyable! I wonder how the Google staffer backed this assertion up.. IHT (clipped from NYTimes) has a bit more, saying 60% of French internet users visited a blog in May 2006, and 12% of those online in France had then created a blog. That’s a sea …
Stuffing it up?
Preview of the new Stuff. Not bad and a welcome improvement based on smh, but fix the logo. Please. old logo (kids, crayons, fun and simple) new logo (MBA, excel, corporate and serious) smh logo (serious. corporate) The Sydney Morning Herald has a serious name and requires a serious logo. However when you call something …
latest demands from Christmas tree kidnappers
the tree saga continues… with an amateurish news video taunting the Trust and Safety team. Sadly it does not tug at the heart string as the previous video did – perhaps the tree is complicit in the kidnapping…
Lance Wiggs 