Media 7: Social Media
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010I had a good time a few weeks ago with Russell Brown, Vaughn Davis, and Ms Behaviour talking about social media on the Media 7 show. You can watch it online.
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
I had a good time a few weeks ago with Russell Brown, Vaughn Davis, and Ms Behaviour talking about social media on the Media 7 show. You can watch it online.
NZICT Near Future Digital Priorities Paper
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009NZICT 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 ...
Telecom Encouraging Uploads
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Citing growth in photo-sharing and social media sites, Telecom have announced they won't charge for upstream traffic. That is to say, upload photos and movies all you like until the end of January when such traffic counts again toward your monthly bill. I've long believed that symmetric bandwidth ...
Libraries, Health, and Internet
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Not the solution to the world's problems, just my agenda this week. Mon-Wed was in Christchurch for the LIANZA conference. Wednesday night, a HISAC dinner. Thursday is a HISAC meeting, the last with the current membership. Friday is an InternetNZ council meeting.
Nine to Noon: 12 August 2009
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009I went through two telephones in this Colorado house and neither of them could hold onto the call. Now that's frustrating! Here's what I was going to speak about: I will talk about recent American software company acquisitions and what it tells us about the economy and the future ...
Nine to Noon: 16 July 2009
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009Listen to my 16 July 2009 appearance on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show. I spoke about Science Foo Camp which was at the Google campus last weekend: discovering new science from huge amounts of data, hormonal traders, personal genomics, and open publishing. Below are my notes. I will ...
Nine to Noon: 2 July 2009
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Listen to my 2 July 2009 appearance on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show. I spoke about emotional robots, Kiwi web awards, and a new US government transparency web site. Below are my notes. I prepare a small essay on the subjects I'm talking about because it helps ...
Open New Zealand
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Glen Barnes and I have softlaunched opengovt.org.nz, an effort to do some MySociety-style projects for New Zealand. Glen's built a catalog for open government data, and there's a mailing list on which we're discussing the next project.
Nine to Noon: 18 June 2009
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Listen to my 18 June 2009 appearance on Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon show. I spoke about online dating scams, Twitter's role in the Iranian election protests, and would have spoken about Chris Knox but we ran out of time. Here are my notes: Online Dating Scams NZ Herald story What: Websites ...
Nat at Govis, May 2009
Monday, March 16th, 2009I'm excited, I'm going to be at the 2009 GOVIS conference on Government and IT. I'm closing the event out on Friday May 22, but also running two workshops before it opens: Work With The Web, Not Against It and Planning for 2012. The conference happens in Wellington, ...