by JAK | May 27, 2023 | culture
One of the recurring themes on discussions about the risks associated with AI is that the sheer quantity of AI sourced content will be overwhelming and logistically difficult to check for accuracy and efficacy. This gives risk to the risk of misinformation. The scale...
by JAK | May 16, 2023 | culture, music
Until recently I thought everyone had the same experience of music just different tastes and that explains why some music hits and some just doesn’t. Turns out some of us have more intense responses to music and I’m one of those so called music tragics. To...
by JAK | May 12, 2023 | big ideas, crmthinking, culture
To even the most casual reader it seems like every day there is a news story about some wonderful thing that AI is doing for us or perhaps doing to us and we should be very wary because this is a bad thing and so on. The need to have a story angle for much of the...
by JAK | Jan 19, 2023 | culture, music
All of the music I have aspired to and liked on a long term basis has been from singer / songwriters .That probably says more about me than it does about them but I still have a life long curiosity about creating and making sense of the worlds that we all live in.The...
by JAK | Dec 9, 2022 | culture, News
Like many of the long term twits I am watching with some mixed emotions at what is going on over at Twitter right now. I joined quite early in 2008? That time after only a few days I deleted my account because there were very few other users and the idea of writing a...
by JAK | Sep 8, 2020 | general business, WordPress
Is your WordPress website performing as it should? With more online business and online traffic generally it may be time for a re-think about how your site works and which elements might need attention. Ask us to do a Planning review. Is your security good? Do you...
by JAK | Aug 30, 2020 | culture
As unprecedented as Covid-19 is we have all been here before. This is not the first time the human population has faced off against a pandemic. The Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 was started because some local merchants wanted shiny new cloth. They broke the...
by JAK | Apr 29, 2020 | culture
In New Zealand we have have had a 4.5 week lockdown and now we are 2 days into a still restricted time period to help manage the health risks from covid-19. There are many responses to this kind of enforced stay at home but one of my first thoughts was finally I can...
by JAK | Apr 25, 2020 | culture, music
This week in lockdown viewing I wanted to take in some music films and I had another shot at watching the Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) I had started watching it when it showed up on my Netflix recommendations list but given up...
by JAK | Apr 13, 2020 | general business, industry futures
With the pandemic on many of us are in lockdown mode and wondering how to re-imagine our lives and our businesses when the health risks can be mitigated more easily. If you are in NZ we are trying to “flatten the curve” by limiting the spread of the...
