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Category Archives: media
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 …
Sao Paulo is billboard free…
Via Boing boing. A bunch of photos are on Flickr Will Auckland be next?
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 …
why vlogging is limited. for now
Matt Ygelsias, one of the early and influential US political bloggers, introduces his brother Nick, and generously gets upstaged as said brother takes down video-blogging. Essentially watching vlogging is too slow, and too annoying. Nick is right, but then again not everyone is as smart as the Yglesias family, and you have to wonder how …
Sunday Star Times 2, NZHerald 0
First the Sunday Star Times publishes a great editorial lamenting the NZHerald’s decision to outsource their core editorial competency – the sub editors. The outsourcing, for my mind, seems to be a dumb decision made by an MBA not a newspaperman. “Subbing factories will turn out factory newspapers…. Then the Sunday Star Times also publishes …
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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speechifying…
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 …
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 …
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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