Archive for the ‘New Zealand’ Category
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Not 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.
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
"You can't beat Wellington on a good day," say the Wellingtonians. Today is not that good day, however, and Wellington could be beaten like a red-headed stepchild. I'm in town Thursday and Friday. My agenda:
Nine to Noon
InternetNZ New Councilor indoctrination^Wintroduction
Silverstripe catchup (I'm on their advisory board)
Evensong at ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
I 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 ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Listen 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 ...
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Glen 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.
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
I've grown a row of beetroot and now I'm nervously wondering what the hell one does with a row of beetroot. I asked on Twitter, and here are the first 90m or so of responses:
@annaraven: http://bit.ly/G77RQ
@nzfi: @vexus_nexus similar effect on no# 2s too - tho don't think it is ...
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
I sent this to Minister Worth (in his Internal Affairs role) and Laurence Millar (as Government CIO) today because they both have a desire to see more open government information. Posted FYI, and I'll update with any responses I get.
Department of Conservation do a good thing by putting preliminary ...
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
This talk looks to be interesting:
Since intellectual property law's beginning competing interests have stretched the law. Barbie now has more protection against rip-offs than Renoir could have imagined. A mishmash of justifications, including encouraging creativity and developing culture, has shaped the law. Does protection unduly restrict other cultural values? Susy ...
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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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