I’m somewhat surprised to see the NZ Government reported as the ones to place the thin wedge on exploitation of Ross Sea. “New Zealand is set to veto any attempt to completely protect the world’s last unexploited ocean – so a lucrative fishing industry can continue operating. An official New Zealand document leaked to Fairfax …
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Road deaths are not so bad
Microsoft Excel, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Despite our small population density, horrible terrain and fickle weather New Zealand is actually doing pretty well on the road deaths chart versus peers. There is a lot more nuance in the stats, which should really be by passenger mile and take account of the presence of pedestrians, but …
Future Digital: InternetNZ’s discussion starter
InternetNZ’s discussion paper for the NZ election lead-up is now online. The paper, and it is a quick read, contains a lot of the themes that emerged from NetHui, which was an excellent event with engagement from across the industry, society and Government. The key points for politicians and voters are: Embrace the fact that …
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More text and fewer articles visible equals more pageviews
NZ’s own RWW reports that readers of the FT’s mobile Web app consume “about three times as many pages through the app as they are through the desktop in an average visit“. Drawar.com concludes in turn that the reason is that the the articles are in a single column in the web-app, while on the …
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Let’s make New Zealand the 1 percent
The posts at WeAreThe99Percent are sobering, shocking. They are some of people caught in the downward spiral of the US economy, but in reality it’s been happening for years as the split between the wealthy and the ‘middle class’ gets increasingly large. The stories are of cripplingly high health care costs that destroy families, of …
The steps for Apple beyond iPhone 5
Apple are releasing another iPhone, or iPhones, tomorrow, and the rest of the industry is understandably nervous. However as what is now called smartphones catch up, Apple will increasingly be playing in a space with diminishing hardware margins. Sony used to own the Walkman market (they named it), but the remainder of that industry started …
Stop the terrorists
Sea Shepherd do not deserve our protection, sympathy, and increasingly arguably, the ability to freely operate in NZ. Their latest blog post makes it clear that they are not playing by the rules: They will have to kill us to prevent us from intervening once again,” said Captain Watson. “Are the Japanese people ready to take human …
Giapo 2.0
A while back I blogged about Giapo, the Queen Street, Auckland gelateria run by the amazing Gianpaolo Grazioi. The title of that blog post was “It’s about the Gelato, not the brand“, and, well, it seems that these days it is indeed about the Gelato. The post led to a series of comments, and I …
Deciphering the HP departure and arrival letters
Corporate language has a particular style, often difficult to understand for those outside an organisation. On the surface they can appear fairly banal, but employees, contractors and analysts can extract remarkable amounts of information from them. Let’s take a recent example, the emails sent during the changing of the CEO at HP. HP is sadly …
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10 ways that NBR.co.nz can fix its comments
One would think that The Wall Street Journal comments would be rancid. After all it’s a right wing capitalist newspaper in the bastion of all that is right wing and capitalist. And yes, the comments do skew a certain way. But overall they are not nearly as bad as they could be. The reason are …
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Facebook’s desperate pleas for attention
In August I received this email from Facebook, which was similar to one I received in June: and like others I received this over the weekend – telling me that I has not been to Facebook in the last few days, and that, well, nothing has really happened anyway. There are several things wrong with …
Lingopal イタリア語 – 喋るフレーズブック | おすすめアプリ
[iPhone][iPad] Lingopal イタリア語 – 喋るフレーズブック | おすすめアプリ Appinfo, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Yes – I have no idea what that says either. One of the perils of selling Lingopal apps in 44 languages, and something that’s difficult to solve. Google translate helps of course.
Vizualize Me
I got a beta invite to Vizualize.me today, which maps Linked In data onto a page – a visual resume if you will. Here’s the output (and below). It’s interesting to see it all laid out graphically – for a start I spotted a number of mistakes which I will need to fix. It seems, …
Hey MPAA – so where can we buy Boy online?
Commenter Jonathan Hunt pointed out in the last post that while the MPAA likes to complain about downloading of the movie Boy, he still cannot see it in iTunes 18 months later. He is right, and it seems the MPAA are well out of order. Here’s what I see from the New Zealand iTunes store. …
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The MPAA needs business people not lawyers
There have been suspiciously few (none recorded) notices from the MPAA (or NZFACT) to alleged copyright infringers in New Zealand since the law came into effect this week. Perhaps the tsunami is to come, or maybe they are waiting to pick the perfect case. However no notices issued to ISPs is despite their long-time rhetoric …
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