My debut technology column in the New Zealand Listener hits the streets in the Auckland region today and over the weekend for the rest of the country. You’ll find a preview of it here soon, when the latest issue’s contents are loaded up. To kick off, I looked around my neighbourhood – central Wellington, and […]
MoreJohn Campbell’s interview last night with “Moon Man” and self-proclaimed earthquake predictor Ken Ring was, according to the unprecedented stream of Twitter messages following it, a “train wreck”, “harsh”, “disappointing” and “poor journalism”. Media veteran Dr Brian Edwards weighed in (site loading slowly today) soon after the appearance to condemn Campbell’s effort: John, your mindless, […]
MoreIt was only a couple of months ago, one sunny morning that I visited science reporter Paul Gorman and tech editor Will Harvie at The Press in Christchurch. The beautiful old building housing the newspaper was devastated in Tuesday’s earthquake and at least one of the newspaper’s staff was killed when the roof crashed down […]
MoreWow, I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the Nokia booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week – well on the wall of the meeting room housing the companies top executives and emissaries from Microsoft, Google and other operating system makers. The Barcelona show is always a colourful one […]
MoreListen to past and present world leaders like Barack Obama, Tony Blair and even George W. Bush and you’ll hear a particular speech-making tool in action – chunking. I was introduced to chunking today at a presentation at the Foo Camp “unconference” held at Mahurangi College just out of Warkworth by Olivia Mitchell, a speech […]
MoreBefore you list the super yachts, luxury cars, mansions and round-the-world first-class trips you would buy, observe the caveat – $500 million… to transform the New Zealand economy. Ah, a bit harder to think of good ways to carve up the cash, isn’t it? Well, that is that exact question engineers orgainsation IPENZ posed when […]
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