Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
SUBMISSION ON THE TRANSPACIFIC STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES
To: Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Introduction
This Submission is from Nathan Torkington, an author, musician, and software professional whose address is [...].
Summary
I strongly oppose any proposals to extend the term of copyright, entrench digital rights management, assign investigation ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
My friend Aaron Swartz writes about the increasingly-evil OCLC:
Not satisfied with controlling the world's largest source of book information, it wants to take over all the smaller ones as well. It's now demanding that every library that uses WorldCat give control over all its catalog records to OCLC. It literally ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
James McGlinn emailed me a great reply to my piece on the business cofounder shortage in NZ, and he's finally posted it. You should read it because I agree with everything he says.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
In this Ziff-Davis Australia article, the leaders of Australia's three largest ISPs declare network neutrality to be an American problem and explain why. It's an interesting argument, but I think there are some key elements unstated in the article.
In America, largely for historical reasons, residential customers have "all you ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Mark Harris lead this session.
Was at SSC, MORST, now Independent. When Wikileaks in May released ACTA doc, saw NZ mentioned, began digging.
ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Proposed by Japan and USA, but not limited to them at all. About eight countries, mainly G8 and a few ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
I'll be in Wellington on Saturday, September 20th, for Software Freedom Day. It's open source's open day, a chance for the general public who might have been curious about open source to come along and learn more. There'll be copies of Linux given out and a WellyLUG installfest ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Jenny Morel is raising a $100M NZ VC fund. That's good news, in that NZ needs smart angels and VCs. I've had a number of NZ friends making the rounds of US venture capital firms and angels looking for investors, and the message has always been "not while ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I see in Rod Drury's blog that National have released their first real economic policy and it's to do with funding fibre-to-the-home in NZ. It's good! Anyone who travels knows how dire the bandwidth situation is here, and it's worse on the ground.
For me, bandwidth = productivity. ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
A client made the decision to use Telecom as their web site host. I argued against it because the price differential was so great between Telecom and, well, anyone else. The client's management decided to go with solid blue chip Telecom. The service we've had from them ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I took a trip to ETech earlier this month. I initially attempted to book the trip using Travelocity but it turned into a massive clusterfuck of their making. I've documented it below in case you, my lovely reader, need any reason to avoid this dribbling shit trickle of ...
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