Open New Zealand
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 …
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Beetroot
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: …
Open the DOC Preliminary Reports
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 …
Nat at Govis, May 2009
I’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 …
From Barbie to Renoir: Intellectual Property and Culture
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 …
Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
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 …
Radio NZ National: Transparency
I’m going to be appearing regularly on Nine to Noon on National Radio Radio New Zealand National. I’m every other week, alternating with Colin Jackson. After the show airs, I’ll post …
Teaching Kids to Program
My OSCON talk on teaching kids to program is now available as an audio podcast on the ITC Conversations Network.
NZ Broadband
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 …
S92A: Interim Repeat Infringer Termination Policy
The Telecommunications Carriers Forum have released a note to ISPs saying that while they’re working on a policy that will comply with S92A of the Copyright Act (“An Internet Service …