Kiwi Foo Turns 5
We’re counting down the days here at the mothership, getting ready for the 5th Kiwi Foo Camp. It’s hard to believe this is year five already, the time’s flown by. I’ve had a …
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Changing the Demographics of Innovation
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 …
From our local newspaper
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 …
Interviewed by Haegwan Kim
Haegwan is interviewing famous and interesting people to talk about what they do and advice they might have to people wanting to be successful. He interviewed me earlier this month. I enjoyed it a …
Joined Silverstripe Board
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 …
Nine to Noon: 8 April 2010
You can listen to my Nine to Noon emerging technology slot from 8 April 2010 in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats. The links for the show appear below, followed by some notes I wrote beforehand to figure out …
Nine to Noon: 4 Mar 2010
I talked today about cryptography, China, and Facebook’s billions. My apologies for how rushed it was on air, but we had less time than usual. I’ve written up below what I was going to …
NZ Doing Good in ACTA Negotiation
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 …
Nine to Noon, 18 Feb 2010
You can listen to my Nine to Noon emerging technology slot from 18 Feb 2010 in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats. The links for the show appear below, though we didn’t get to the media scares story: …
Community Management Workshop
I attended a workshop on community management at Webstock, and at the end asked the attendees to write down some words of wisdom for a new community manager, maybe something they wish they’d …