by JAK | Sep 8, 2012 | big ideas, culture, TEDx
Over in Canberra it is almost time for TEDx – the full programme is here Sessions are split into 4 sections, Observe, Consider, Decide and then Transform – nice 🙂 Great to see that Nobel prize winning wine maker Brian Schmidt is doing another talk. I was...
by JAK | Sep 7, 2012 | big ideas, culture
Last month I was up in San Francisco and it was great to meet James Reid and Reuben Metcalfe at the Kiwi Landing Pad. Thanks to their generosity I was able to get a desk and a WiFi connection for a couple of days while I was checking out projects in Silicon Valley and...
by JAK | Aug 24, 2012 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
A few years ago when the “rivers of gold” represented by classified advertising started being diverted off into the likes of TradeMe -Fairfax made a very smart strategic move to buy that company. At the time the merits of the price paid where debated far...
by JAK | Aug 23, 2012 | culture, music
Back in the 70’s what I most cared about was music. They say the more things change the more they stay the same. One of my very favourite musician / songwriters back then was Bruce Cockburn from Canada. A line like “Silver rain sings dancing rhyme”...
by JAK | Aug 21, 2012 | culture, industry futures, WordPress
Two weeks ago I was at Wordcamp SF (#wcsf ) and given that I live in Auckland NZ it is rather a long way to go so why do I do it? Simply put – since 2009 I have been working mostly full time on WordPress based projects. I actually started using WordPress in mid...
