So now we know what you are reading (it’s all about teenage love calculation), but how are you coming to this blog? Well – here are the top search terms used over the last year to find posts on this site: 1: “xtra mail” (yup. I can’ believe it either) 2:”calculate the name of your …
Category Archives: media
What are you reading here? top 11, bottom 3
So – this blog has been around for almost a year now – the first post was on November 9th last year. It’s been a fun journey, and although statistics are fickle things it seems that about 2-300 people are visiting each day. That’s pretty amazing – I had no idea I had that many …
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RSS Explained
I’ve just added a couple of links on the top right to make it easy to subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed. What’s RSS? Well here’s a fun low tech explanation of what RSS is, and how to use a reader, such as Google Reader. it does get a bit long, but it’s worth seeing …
Expedia.co.nz launches – Good or Bad?
Expedia – the world’s largest travel agent, and a site I used a lot, err, last century, has finally arrived in New Zealand. Here’s a quick review. That’s a mere 11 years after being founded by Microsoft in 1996 – nice to know we are important. It’s a classic case of the big boys discounting …
NZ is 18th least taxed country in OECD
what a difference a headline can make. Both Stuff and NZHerald went with “NZ is 13th most taxed country in the OECD”. The OECD has 30 members – something that took me – oh – about 15 seconds to find. Or you could look at the handy chart int he NZHerald article.
Legal unlocked iPhones
Perhaps available only in French, but it seems iPhones will have to be sold in unlocked form in France, to comply with an excellent French law. Unlocked: tick 3G: not yet. Still time to kill until next year then.
Leopard is coming on the 26th
From the Apple.com homepage. If you were thinking about upgrading your operating system from, say, XP, now is the hour.
NZInstitute BB report: Digital media benefits are underestimated
Continuing a series of comments on the excellent NZ Institute Broadband report, we turn to page 8: Digital media. NZ Institute estimate $800m in extra benefits, with the tree showing $680m to $1.03bn. Here’s the top half: Let’s look the right hand sides. Current cost base = $2.1 billion. The source for this is unclear, …
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3 reasons why old media is not doomed
A couple opf folk sent me a link to a post on Louis Gray’s blog, link, which shows the relative decline in Alexa ranking of the news websites. Sites that used to be among the top visited sites in all the Web have plummeted, as fickle Web visitors have turned their attention away from the …
Why did xtra go Yahoo! and not MSN?
Mauricio wonders why xtra!Yahoo? I guess one might never know the full story on why Telecom New Zealand decided to terminate the partnership between its Xtra ISP and Microsoft’s MSN content provider here in New Zealand, instead running into the open arms of Yahoo7. I guess not – but MSN’s current offering – msn.co.nz – …
Randy Pausch’s last lecture
If you have not seen this, then make sure you do. It’s the last lecture by CM Prof. Randy Pausch, and it is amazing. youtube version (first of several – the speaker below is introducing)
News Corp to go carbon neutral by 2010
Rupert Murdoch, via Samefacts Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can’t afford the risk of inaction… Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010… Our strategy everywhere is the same: first, reduce our use of energy as …
Is online ad spend in NZ doubling?
The just released IAB report is showing $57.6m in online advertising spend for 1H 2006. That would imply we will hit well over $120-130m for the 2006 calendar year, once you take natural growth and the Christmas season into account. Indeed the IAB is showing over 20% growth from Q1 to Q2, which would imply$145m …
24% of kiwi’s are creationists..
..and 26% say the Theory of Evolution is not true. I’m stunned. The article also says that 42% of kiwis believe the death penalty is ‘morally acceptable’. I’m doubly stunned. ..of course this survey is subject to the same sampling bias that other surveys are: people at home at night, with a home phone they …
Rugby Hell
Rugby Heaven changed its logo today….
Lance Wiggs 