by JAK | Jul 5, 2008 | crmthinking, culture, industry futures, TED
TED just released news (June 2008) that there have been more than 50 million downloads of their videos. Ashley Highfield of the BBC mentions that iPlayer has now had more than 75m video downloads (as at May 2008) so clearly we are moving into a new era of accelerated...
by JAK | May 8, 2008 | big ideas, culture, idealog
Lately I’ve been to some funerals and also lots of births in the form of kids birthday parties. At both ends of the curve there are a number of recurring questions but today really looking at just two. One of the best questions ever is “What are you going...
by JAK | May 4, 2008 | culture, industry futures
This morning I was reading some questions over on this post. Another related question is what are the public policy impacts of having a tax on a tax (GST on excise for petrol) and shouldn’t that be sorted? “We think we have it bad in New Zealand paying...
by JAK | Apr 29, 2008 | culture, general business, online marketing
Here is a great little conference (Freelance08) on next Wednesday, May 7 and Thursday, May 8 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Auckland. It offers huge value for members of the freelance nation. Also a chance to hear from Nicky Hager, Brenda Ward, Virginia Larson and John...
by JAK | Mar 25, 2008 | culture, TED
In the last post I mentioned that the TED prize broadcasts were going to be live so that anyone could see the video as it happened from the TED conference. There were 3 sessions plus a musical performance. It was great to get an idea of the conference in real time...
by JAK | Feb 28, 2008 | big ideas, culture, industry futures, TED
The latest TED conference starts this week and runs from 27th of Feb to Sat March1. This time presenters range from Craig Venter, through Bob Geldof , Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Isaac Mizrahi to economist Paul Collier and many, many others. On the Friday night for example...
