As part of the Fairfax role I’ll be presenting at the “Opportunities in Broadband & Next Generation Networks” conference. What a catchy title. I’m taking the place of Nic Cola on Day two (with a different take), right after lunch, and will have fun explaining what we consumers will get from the media companies once …
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where are the intellectuals?in NZ?
Also in the IFR, Chris Trotter reviews a book by Laurence Simmons belaboring the dearth of NZ intellectualism. Without reading the book I’d suggest that Professor Simmons starts reading in the new frontier of intellectualism. He may not see the turgidness of ancient times, but the new wave of influencer’s are now online and blogging. …
Radio licenses
So I saw in the Independent Financial Review (not online) that the NZ Government is handing out spectrum licenses to the radio industry for 20 years for $96m. The pricing was based on estimated income for the radio stations based on a ‘cost per pair of ears’ approach. As a radio station I’d be worried …
Pago Pago Pago
Pago has the right market identified, but just keeps falling down in execution. Here’s a reminder email from them, as rendered by Outlook via web access. No logo, no <yourname>, no links as promised, no signature. How the mighty have fallen – ASB to me were always the leading edge of consumer IT, but with …
RSS feeds now on Stuff
Stuff now has RSS feeds – you can subscribe either by area (e.g. technology) or by Newspaper (Dom Post). Cool. NZHerald already has feeds.
Search with Kevin
Hot from the US – the new new “de rigueur” search engine for the in crowd… Kevin Federline’s search engine.
tvnzondemand – streaming works on osx
TVNZ ondemand launched and is covered on GeekZone Forums and by Mauricio. The streaming via a flash player works on my mac, albeit with very low framerate. I even watched a minute or two of Piha Rescue (not a show I watch, and nor are any of the others which are local shows only) in …
Fairfax Digital
I’ve just been appointed Acting Head of Fairfax Digital, (Stuff), which will last until a full time appointment is announced. You’ll continue to see posts on NZ online media on this blog, but as I am now an insider at Fairfax, as well as Trade Me, I’ll be very circumspect in commenting about both institutions. …
92% of 2006 US ad spend went to 4 companies
Apparently Marketscape research released at the Online Publisher Forum in London, and reported on Online spin, said that 92% of the US spend in 2006 went to the “big four”: Google, Yahoo!, MSN and AOL. In New Zealand things are very different – with MSN arriving at the party early with xtra, Google arriving very …
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Scoopit is slow….
Scoopit is awesome, but sadly their servers(?or my ISP link to them?) are getting crushed right now, and every night, making the service essentially unusable. They have a great opportunity to grab a really important piece of NZ media real-estate – it would be a shame to lose out because of infrastructure issues. Scoopit! (go …
Six digital marketing articles…
Online Spin is a site I’ve just found via Max Kalehoff at AttentionMax. This excellent article points to “six columns digital marketers must read”. Author Max (of the main and six other articles) summarises the articles, but for the impatient here they are: Are Advertisers Suffering From Addiction? Media Specialists Must Grasp Consumer-Generated Media Ten …
eBay Standard Browsers include Safari
Someone gets it – eBay’s recommended browser types are IE 6 or later, Firefox 1.5 or later and, bless them, Safari 2 or later. Safari is the standard browser on the Mac, and an increasing number of people use Macs. Moreover those Mac people tend to be early adopters and (sooner or later) evangelists. If …
Gapminder – awesome stats viewer
While some articles concentrated on the inventors not getting the benefits, to me the best part about Google’s purchase of Gapminder’s Trendalyzer is that we all get to benefit. Just check it out – Track life expectancy versus GDP per capita over time by pressing the play button… Scoopit!
LanceWiggs.com
I (finally) changed the name of this blog to lancewiggs.com, so you 15 loyal readers (Hi Mum) can have slightly less weary fingers. The old elevatorfactoids.wordpress.com links and bookmarks will still work apparently. When I added my name to the front page the googlability* of the site went up sharply. So now let’s see what …
Netguide and Hitwise awards – are they bunk?
Netguide are running their annual awards voting. Liv mention this in her new blog – so I’ve dragged out this partially written piece…. As Liv mentions, this year Netguide want voters to register for some dodgy website (Netguide Village – not linked) that you probably have no interest whatsoever in joining. So Netguide’s business model …
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