Archive for the ‘New Zealand’ Category
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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Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Our local newspaper, Mahurangi Matters, had this great piece of short news (sadly not online yet):
Local firemen recently responded to a 3.30am call "power causing concern". The homeowner could hear a humming sound seemingly coming from her bathroom wall. The firemen were all set to knock down walls ...
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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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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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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
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.
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
I used LGOIMA, the local government equivalent of the Official Information Act, to request details on how much revenue Auckland City council and the Auckland-area collective geospatial body made from geodata sales. Today I got the PDF of their response. Neither Auckland City nor ALGGi have made much from ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Citing 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 ...
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
If you're in Wellington on the week of October 19, check out Victoria University's Open Access events. There are a pile of events and talks planned on the campus for that week as part of International Open Access Week. Check it out on the Creative Commons New Zealand ...
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
I'm meeting the Minister of Internal Affairs for 20m today at 12.30. I want to talk with him about the Government's move to open data: what do they hope to achieve, what is he driving, and how can groups like Open New Zealand work with the Government on it. ...
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