Bill Moyers, a respected journalist from PBS, has come back from retirement in an astonishing way. Not only did he launch a new PBS series (Bill Moyers Journal) with an excellent documentary entitled Buying the War, he has backed it up with an excellent website. The video of each program is available for free – …
Category Archives: Internet Business
RightMedia demo
Google Yahoo! <thanks Dave and Mauricio> just purchased RightMedia – which is some sort of online advertising marketplace. This deal has uncovered the world’s slowest but actually kinda fun demo – check out their homepage and click on the Take the Tour button. It’s been 5 minutes so far and the demo still hasn’t told …
Orcon marketing
Did Orcon think that this was really the appropriate way to market their brand at Armageddon? What is it with ISP’s and marketing campaigns in NZ?
Factoids from the 2007 Digital fact pack
Adage has published the ‘2007 Digital Fact Pack‘, where you can glean vital tidbits such as: Online display advertising was $9.77bn in 2006 according to ‘TNS Media Intelligence’…. …..and about $4.9bn according to ‘eMarketer’. One number would have been useful, two numbers is a joke. eMarketer projects 2007 Display ad and rich media/video revenue of …
Cookies per computer
An average of 2.5 cookies were found per home computer in a US Survey [hat tip attentionmax] by Comscore. It seems that 31% of people delete their cookies at least once during the month*, and 7% delete them 4 times or more. Let’s see how that works in NZ. NetRatings shows there were 6.1m domestic …
Apple and democracy
Apple’s dictionary has views…..
Craplets and responsive advertisng
On April 5th WSJ’s Mossberg slams Windows PC’s [subscription reqd] as coming with ‘craplets’ – or trial software that is crippled. He received massive feedback, and responded on the 12th of April with a follow-up article suggesting a variety of cures, including the ultimate of getting a mac instead. “So, even my year-old Mac laptop …
NYTimes rules
A fantastic indication of the relevance of the NYTimes is in this chart, taken from and excellent post on the state of the Blogosphere by Sifry. It shows the top sites that bloggers link to – and NYTimes is well ahead of the pack. News.com.au is the only downunder site in the top 100 (that …
The death of magazines? InfoWorld goes online only
US magazine Infoworld is delivering it’s last print copies and publishing online only. They are ahead of the curve, and it is smart thing to do as the technology magazines are increasingly irrelevant in this age of MacRumors, Engadget and DPReview . I can’t recall the last time I purchased a computer magazine, and why …
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Random Photos: Ferrit, Sydney, Fairfax, boats
Ferrit (the view from a Fairfax Auckland office) Sydney at dawn (while waiting for a 7am Fairfax meeting) Fairfax Digital Australia Office Wellington powerboat races Sailing
Wasting space..
Here’s what I received from Dick Smith the other day – 3 batteries, inside a rather large, otherwise empty, box. The transaction was lousy all-round, with slow confirmation, slow delivery and appalling packaging. Lots of room for improvement here…
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.
Lance Wiggs 