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 …
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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…
Watch radiation detector – not a toy?
A watch-radiation dectector attracts mirth on gizmodo, and perhaps justifiably so. However considering the difficulty that various authorities are having installing industrial scale radiation detectors in airports and ports, perhaps issuing a portable detector to all staff could a cheaper alternative. It also changes the security paradigm from relying on technology run by barely trained …
Adwords and the long tail
It seems, and I’ve been hearing this from Google themselves as well as from blogs and other companies, that buying up the long tail of google search terms is an efficient way to get customers. This means mining your site for the search terms people use to get there, and even using a tool to do …
How to fight poverty
Absolutely stunning article by Tina Rosenberg in the NYTimes on how to fight poverty. Sadly it is behind their paywall, which is reprehensible considering its import. The people care, Governments do not Not only is US foreign aid pathetically small versus it’s GDP, but 39% of it goes to military aid to Israel, Egypt etc, …
Still no word…
…on the fate of the Trust and Safety Christmas tree. The kidnappers have promised to slowly de-branch the tree if their demands for home cooked produce are not met… Disturbing. Very disturbing.
Apple pre-paid revenue
Rod Drury asks what if Apple had major pre-paid revenue. They do have some – from the iTunes music cards. The cards are great for gifts, and also if you want to get content not available here – such as TV shows and movies. Whenever I’m in the US I pick up a card and …
shoe sizer
so simple. A wonderful use of technology – 6 cameras and some smarts combine to give an accurate 3d map of feet – which lets shoe stores sell more…
Christmas tree kidnapping
The Trade Me Trust and Safety team Christmas tree was kidnapped – they received this rather disturbing video a day later…
Companies that don’t get the internet that should
Internet Bureau was an early entrant into the NZ online advertising game, and they successfully acted as an intermediary between advertisers, advertising agencies and websites. They should have a great website. It should allow advertisers to book ads, to understand what makes a good ad, how success is measured, and what the overall online spending …
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Apple NZ Store open, Renaissance still doesn’t get it
What staggers me about the Renaissance email I referred to earlier, is that nowhere in the email do they refer to the iTunes & Apple.co.nz store opening. Even worse, I can’t see any reference to Apple.co.nz or iTunes on the Renaissance website. I understand that Renaissance probably don’t clip the ticket on Apple sales through …
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NZ Renassance Apple Store closed
Just got an email from Renassance – Apple’s local distributor. I really really hope this means Apple will enter the market with their own store, but I am afraid not. Renassance’s store did have pretty lousy service so it’s not such a bad thing, but they did have the apple.co.nz/store site. turns out iTunes has …
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