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Category Archives: media
Results:Top eleven for 2012
In January 2011 I tried my hand at prediction. Let’s see how that worked out then: eBooks will become relatively normal. It will begin to feel a little silly to purchase products that require cutting down trees, chemicals, huge plants, … Continue reading
Top eleven for 2011
Let’s have a go at fortune telling – no cookies involved. eBooks will become relatively normal. It will begin to feel a little silly to purchase products that require cutting down trees, chemicals, huge plants, toxic inks and expensive production … Continue reading
Quotes from the ACMA business model report
A few choice quotes from the Australia Communications and Media Authority’s “Report 4— Changing business models in the Australian communication and media sectors: Challenges and response strategies” It’s worth reading the report – at least for your industry. “At June … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Business, media, telecom
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The challenge for Fishpond
Here’s Fishpond‘s latest email to me. I like the company a lot, and they are justifiably doing well, but I find it difficult to buy anything from them as I’ve moved increasingly into an electronic world. In September last year … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Business, Internet Business, media, NZ Business
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Poorly surveyed
I got this email just now, it’s so ugly I thought I’d follow the link to see how bad the survey was. I took the extra time to take pictures and write comments. The landing page as not too … Continue reading
How readable is your site?
Google has a new readability feature, so why not check a few local sites? Here are some, in decreasing order of ‘Basic’ readabilty. Proving something about left wing academics, tough I am not sure what. Overall very consistent in readability … Continue reading
NZGirl is not safe
Perhaps it’s because the site is aimed at teenagers, and they are asking teenagers to show their breasts to everyone. Or perhaps it is because they are saying some breasts are better than others – when breast cancer folks are … Continue reading
Soft Sunday News
Sunday news is traditionally a bit softer than weekday news, but today I noticed a bunch of, shall we say, softer headlines. So I decided to browse the popular news sites and copy a few of the more delightful leads … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Business, media
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The new interest.co.nz – review
It’s early days, but the team at interest.co.nz must be happy that their new site is now up and running. It’s running on a much better platform so they should be able to tweak it a lot in response to … Continue reading
Quantcast tracks all WordPress.com blog stats
I’ve rather belatedly discovered Quantcast – which tracks a good chunk of the web, but is very US-centric. One thing it does do though is track every WordPress.com hosted blog, including, for what it is worth, mine: There is plenty … Continue reading
It’s all about the story – launch progress
Things are going well at AllAboutTheStory.com – the site that matches the material from professional writers with editors who buy their material. While it is still very early days, we are pleased to have over 130 members and about 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Business, media
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An open letter to Vodafone Group from New Zealand
Dear Vodafone Group We don’t yet have the Kindle available in New Zealand, and I suspect that you are the folks to talk to. You see I’m pretty sure the folks at Vodafone New Zealand would love us to have … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Business, media
Tagged amazon, Kindle, new zealand, vodafone, Vodafone_group
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Is there a point to NZEdge?
I struggle with NZEdge. They mean well for New Zealand, but I often feel they are disconnected from reality. It’s owned/run by Brian Sweeney and Kevin Roberts, but it seems to be operated as a one man band by Brian. … Continue reading
Is Stuff cut off from the world?
For the last few days I’ve failed to get anything from Stuff.co.nz. Sure I am in Mozambique but NZHerald and everything else is working just fine, while others in DC and Singapore have hinted at the same problem. I’ve tried … Continue reading
Posted in fairfax, media
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USA’s loss of trust in news
Fairfacts confirmed in a post a little while back that his idea of fair is the same as that of Fox News . He did it though while commenting on a particularly interesting series of research. The research is a … Continue reading
Posted in fairfax, media, NZ Business
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