Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Pondering the New Zealand fishing industry, I had an insight today. Forgive me if it's old news to you.
You have three options to make more money:
Lower costs.
Sell more of the same stuff.
Make new types of stuff to sell.
In quota-limited systems such as fishing, you can't catch more fish because ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
There's a trend now to question the value of a university education. It used to be that simply possessing a university degree gained you access to a Better Class of Job. That is no longer the case; now you have access to The Same Class of Unemployment Benefit. ...
Posted in Business, New Zealand, Personal | 5 Comments »
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
I was honoured to give a talk of career advice to the 2010 Summer of Tech students. I appear to have let a few f-bombs fly, so don't watch if that sort of thing offends you. (In fact, you should probably stop reading my blog if that sort ...
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Text of notes for a talk given at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the New Zealand Computer Society in Rotorua, 17 September 2010. I will link to video when it's posted by the conference organizers.
Hello everyone. Thank you for the kind introduction, and thank you to the New ...
Posted in Business, New Zealand, Technology | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Last month I was honoured to join Silverstripe as a director. Silverstripe makes an open source Content Management System backed by Sapphire, an elegant PHP framework, builds websites for NZ and international customers, and has a new performance monitoring product that's rapidly gaining traction. I was on their ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
I attended a workshop on community management at Webstock, and at the end asked the attendees to write down some words of wisdom for a new community manager, maybe something they wish they'd been told or something they learned at the workshop. Here's their collected advice:
Networking is important—often there ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
NZICT is an industry lobby group, representing the NZ ICT industry (software, hardware, services, networks, education, and training). They've just released a "Near Future Digital Priorities" paper. Here are my first thoughts.
First, I have to applaud the industry getting together to try and figure out how it can ...
Posted in Business, New Zealand, politics, Technology | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Just a heads-up: over on the O'Reilly Radar blog, I posted about the opportunities for businesses in the future based on Stephen O'Grady's predictions for 2010.
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
The New York Public Library and Wired Magazine have collaborated to bring a set of evening lectures on how new technology is changing the economics of art with speakers Lawrence Lessig, Stephen Johnson, and the dude who did the Obama poster. I'd love to see something similar in New ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
There hasn't been a lot of action from the new Government on broadband (or anything, really, yet) but this Economist article is food for thought about spending priorities:
When it comes to promoting economic activity, it is easy to see why having broadband is better than not having it, but most ...
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