by JAK | May 13, 2010 | WordPress
Wellingtonian Dan Milward and myself got to WordCampSF back on May 1 in San Francisco. There were 750+ people there and for most of the day there were two streams running with more technical sessions downstairs and general – more road-map style sessions...
by JAK | May 1, 2010 | culture
I was in San Francisco at the end of April 2010 in time for my first U.S WordCamp. Here are some of the photos I took at the time some of them were posted on a NZ wordcamp site which has since been archived. I cycled over the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito and then...
by JAK | Apr 12, 2010 | big ideas
Ironically even though we live in a world where ideas can be a force for positive good there are still those who view public discussion and comment as a problem. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ”...
by JAK | Dec 21, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures
With Christmas coming up time to hit the beach with a book (Southern hemisphere here). We have been through a precarious business year where our faith in the vagaries of the “free market” should have been very considerably challenged although I personally...
by JAK | Dec 7, 2009 | big ideas
If I was a farmer I’d be looking to win some friends in the cities and towns given the free ride they are getting regarding climate change impacts and planning. So why would a bunch of dairy farmers want to consider placing 18,000 up to 17,850 cows indoors for...
