by JAK | May 9, 2012 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
What if David Attenborough could sing? How about Stephen Hawking? Brian Cox? Well thanks to John Boswell at Symphony of Science they can and the results are surprising, delightful, educational and musically inventive. When my daughter was younger we watched hours of...
by JAK | May 7, 2012 | big ideas, music, TED, TEDx
Ever since Brian Sweeney and Remo Giuffre told me about TED back in the early 90’s or maybe before that (TED started in 1984) I have been a huge fan. Brians 7×7 events in NZ were inspired by TED and they still resonate even though today we have TEDxSydney,...
by JAK | May 3, 2012 | big ideas, culture, general business, industry futures
Last year a couple of big finance stories caught my attention. I had just seen the movie Inside Job . What was very interesting to me was the idea that economists and other academics in the finance world had been utterly compromised by the global financial meltdown....
by JAK | Apr 28, 2012 | big ideas, industry futures
As many of you know I have been working on re-development of a significant NZ government related website which focuses on the roll-out of ultra fast broadband over the next few years. That site Crown Fibre Holdings finally went live a few weeks ago. I’m very...
by JAK | Apr 23, 2012 | big ideas, WordPress
Wordcampnz is all about creating an affirming space with the best coffee, best people & looking for those magic moments and happy accidents. Why have a musician talk about his website when you can hear him sing a song he wrote ? And why say good bye when you can...
