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...
by JAK | Aug 18, 2012 | culture
On a recent trip I got to spend just over a day in Los Angeles. Previously my entire experience was of the airport as a transit point for other places in the world. But of course LA has beaches too and I was delighted to find out that I would be staying near one of...
by JAK | Aug 9, 2012 | big ideas, culture
In 2008 the California Academy of Science building opened. It was designed by architect Renzo Piano and has a living roof. This roof is covered in plants and has two distinctive domes on the roof. In sustainable design terms “The Academy is now the largest...
