by JAK | Sep 16, 2016 | culture, general business, industry futures
Or are they Utopian revolutionaries? Ouch… @bentarnoff has written about why some people hate the tech industry in an article called Gaffes, ignorance and PR nightmares: why it’s so easy to hate the tech industry for the Guardian. “The reality is...
by JAK | Aug 28, 2016 | culture, industry futures
Public Address held a special Journalism / Media event back on August 23rd. I couldn’t be there at the time but I was very pleased to see that a full clip has been loaded up on the 95BFM YouTube channel. Russell Brown already wrote about the event Orcon IRL on...
by JAK | Jul 28, 2016 | culture, films, music
Film festival time here and I have managed to catch a few films including “A Flickering Truth’ and “Shadow World’ which are both documentaries. ‘A Flickering Truth’ is a story about rescuing the film archive in Afghanistan made by...
by JAK | Jul 23, 2016 | culture
The Republican convention has just finished and the Donald gave his speech. We will hear more responses and reactions over the past few days but I watched a fair amount of it on the live stream and I couldn’t believe anyone in a position of leadership could so...
by JAK | Jul 14, 2016 | culture, films
Shadow World Trailer from Louverture Films on Vimeo. The New Zealand Film Festival is coming up this week in my home city. I have picked around 10 films to go see and half of my top picks are documentaries. The Shadow World is one of them. If you are in Auckland...
by JAK | Jul 13, 2016 | culture, industry futures
I have a very old copy of “Understanding Media” by Marshall McLuhan on my bookshelf. When I was 13 there was a teacher at my school who was clearly a fan of McLuhan’s ideas and more than 50 years later many of those ideas still hold true but the...
