A good article in the Australian about the debacle that is AFR.com.au. Killer quote from Cheief Executve Michael Gill: “We are not aware of any other product like that, which is why it has been an unusually complex project.” and the response from Mark Day, the journalist: “Unusually complex? Therein lies the problem. The technical …
Category Archives: media
Facebook, LinkedIn and Second Life…
Sometimes I really have to sit back and wonder at our short memories… Facebook is the new new thing it seems, even though it has been around since 2004 – starting at Harvard and spreading to other Boston and Ivy League universities. I have an ivy league alumni email address, so in theory could have …
Buy Lance T’s!
Rod Drury is “Rod” #1 on Google.co.nz, #5 on Google.com – both very impressive. I’m the number – oh 80 or so – “Lance” in Google.com, but at least I can order a T-Shirt from the most popular Lance site…
NZ anti-MP-Satire law makes slashdot
Slashdot picked up on it late, but here you go. That’s an impressive law – hitting both The Daily Show and Slashdot. Time to give it up as a bad joke…
Burger Fuel numbers
2380 investors, $5.25m raised. That’s $2,205 per investor – paltry. A poorer showing given that they even spent money on TVC’s advertising the float. Goodness knows what the total expenses were for the float, but this can’t have been an efficient way of raising the cash – especially as the founders appear to have deep …
Drivetalk
I’m becoming addicted to Dave Moore’s Drivetalk. I’ll let Dave’s resume speak for itself: “Dave Moore is Motoring Editor for The Press and The Dominion Post and blogs for Stuff on all things automotive. His words also appear regularly in other Fairfax titles, including NZ Autocar, and he can be heard every week on NewstalkZB. …
pay phones, funny money, income and Telecom
Chicago’s OHare airport is ripping out pay phones and replacing them with power sockets, chairs and counters. Bless them – I’m sick of wandering around (usually american) airports looking for power sockets. Disposable income for “Managers” is largest in Saudi Arabia, small in the USA and generally better in third world countries than first world. …
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Jalopnik joy
I’m a huge fan of Jalopnik – which covers all new and exciting in the car world. They have largely taken the place of car magazines for me. anyway – how the heck did this happen? (the car came in from outside, after going up a mound. The front end of the BMW is in …
MISAustralia.com – lousy launch
Good: launching a new site Stupendously Bad: Using AFR.com technology I don’t know where to sart – such a frustrating experience from a new site.. The articles are displayed in flash. You can’t copy, highlight with a mouse as you read, change the size of the reading window or scroll using the mouse button. In …
NZ big on Wikipedia
For some reason “New Zealand” is (currently) the 51st most popular Wikipedia search – ahead of any other country. Strange.
RugbyHeaven soft launch
The guys at Fairfax have quietly launched rugbyheaven.co.nz. (Sadly I am not there to watch) If you were (a rugby fan and) wondering where YahooXtra’s Marc Hinton and Duncan Johnstone had got to . . . . well now you know. There are also articles there from the likes of The Press’s Richard Fowler, Dom …
NetRatings abandons Pageviews..
..well at least in Australia. It seems that Netratings has woken up to the reality of Web 2.0 and videos, and will use time on at site as their principal measure. That’s fair, as far as I am concerned, and something I’ve advocated for a while. We shuuld remember that NetRatings is not dominant in …
Chalkie replies to Gareth Morgan…
Chalkie clearly reads blogs, and has replied to Gareth Morgan’s rebuttal to her article on his website. The original Chalkie article is now on Stuff, and you can read Chalkie’s remarks below (& in the comments of the previous post) Jenny Ruth “My primary source of income is not from writing for savings industry-funded trade …
The battle continues: Gareth Morgan, life insurers and Kiwisaver
Gareth Morgan comes out guns blazing again – I’m enjoying watching the exchange. First up – GMK have published the ‘fan mail‘ from the life insurance companies. Along with the insurance company’s ripostes, Gareth has written short rebuttals. AP’s Greg Camm: “If there were a sign on a beach saying “Sharks in the water” you …
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On Perth…
Three cheery headlines this morning in theWest – Perth and Western Australia’s dominant newspaper: Five Stabbed in Nightclub Brawl That was in Subiaco, where I am planning to live. It’s the best ‘cosmopolitan’ suburb around, and everyone is telling me to stay there. The good news (apparently) is that is was not gang related. One …
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