Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
It was my pleasure to address the National and State Librarians of Australasia on the eve of their strategic planning meeting in Auckland at the start of November this year. I have been involved in libraries for a few years now, and am always humbled by the expertise, hard ...
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
This post is about my 3 March 2011 appearance on Nine to Noon on Radio New Zealand. Listen to the show in MP3 and OGG. My notes below were made during research for the show, but we often depart from the script. In particular, this week I ...
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
This post is about my 17 February appearance on Nine to Noon on Radio New Zealand. Listen to the show in MP3 and OGG. My notes below were made during research for the show, but we often depart from the script.
NOTE: An alert reader wrote to RNZ after ...
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
I resumed my Nine to Noon radio segments on Radio New Zealand. I'll be on every other week, beginning 3 February 2011. MP3 and OGG available.
Below are my notes, made as I researched the topics for the 3 February 2011 show. We often depart from the notes, ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Haegwan is interviewing famous and interesting people to talk about what they do and advice they might have to people wanting to be successful. He interviewed me earlier this month. I enjoyed it a lot, and I'm flattered by the company I keep: racing car drivers, famous technologists, ...
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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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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
You can listen to my Nine to Noon emerging technology slot from 8 April 2010 in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats. The links for the show appear below, followed by some notes I wrote beforehand to figure out what I thought and how to explain things like network neutrality. ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an agreement between countries around IP rights and enforcement. The negotiations have been happening in secret, with every country saying "well, we'd love to reveal what we're talking about but those other countries just won't let us". Fortunately there have been leaks, ...
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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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