NZ Broadband Pricing and Network Neutrality
In this Ziff-Davis Australia article, the leaders of Australia’s three largest ISPs declare network neutrality to be an American problem and explain why. It’s an interesting argument, but …
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Memo to Future Nat on Slides
Reading back through my notebook at my jottings from last week’s frantic flurry of meetings, I found this hard-learned lesson: When preparing slides for others, they MUST read them when …
NZ Open Source Awards
(reposted from The O’Reilly Radar blog) Wednesday night in Wellington is a lot more exciting when the New Zealand Open Source Award ceremony is on! The Minister for Communications and …
Software Freedom Day Notes: ACTA
Mark Harris lead this session. Was at SSC, MORST, now Independent. When Wikileaks in May released ACTA doc, saw NZ mentioned, began digging. ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Proposed …
Business values
I had dinner tonight with my friend Cath Lewis, the awesome real estate agent. She told me that her new company felt right because honesty and empathy were at the top of their values. I think most of …
Software Freedom Day
I’ll be in Wellington on Saturday, September 20th, for Software Freedom Day. It’s open source’s open day, a chance for the general public who might have been curious about open …
Webstock 2009 Lineup Announced
I’m speaking at Webstock 2009 and really looking forward to it. What an amazing lineup of talent they have! I’ve been privileged to meet many of these folks before, and I’m honoured …
NZ's Business Talent Crisis
Kiwi Foo Camp was my way of finding and support great technical talent in NZ. Last week I realized that NZ’s critical shortage isn’t in technical staff, it’s in business staff. This …
The Tyranny of Distance
Jenny Morel is raising a $100M NZ VC fund. That’s good news, in that NZ needs smart angels and VCs. I’ve had a number of NZ friends making the rounds of US venture capital firms and angels …
Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far
I found this list on the web and loved it. The ones that particularly rang true with me: 5. Being not truthful always works against me. 8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on. …