I’m looking forward to a great 2017 however for the next few years it may be that the U.S has become a “no-fly zone” due to the election of a demagogue as incoming President. I am still in shock at this. Here are a few of the back ground research… read more →
Imagine if we lived in a country where 160,000 kids learned songwriting each week and a few hundred of them even got paid and made a living at it? Sounds far fetched? Apparently around 160,000 New Zealanders play rugby every weekend. I’m guessing most of them are happily terrible but… read more →
It is the end of a school / university year and people are thinking about what to do to become more web savvy. Here are some ideas. The notes below are the latest version of a set of conversations for anyone wanting to explore web development as a job or… read more →
I went to the New Zealand music awards a couple of weeks ago. There were some surprising performances from Shapeshifter and Tami Neilson who were both stunning but not exactly popular music I would have thought. Most of the music was from mainstream popular “not that there is anything wrong… read more →
This week is election week in that big noisy neighbours place. You know the one. I’m seeing a lot of uncertainty around my media streams and in New Zealand we get a somewhat filtered view but it is noisy out there. This ‘post’ is not directly about that event – but… read more →
Last week I came across two people who seemed to genuinely believe that Hillary Clinton was a terrible choice for U.S President and despite them not liking Trump they seemed to be supporting him. And this makes me think that the U.S election result will be much closer than anyone… read more →
Just last week Bob Dylan was awarded a Nobel prize for literature. That was the prompt for dinner conversations about the extent that music and literature can cross over. And then if Bob can win why wasn’t Leonard Cohen also in the frame? Bob has made 37 studio albums and the first… read more →
There was a fascinating story about rats the other day. Rats are linked to many problems caused in the human population. We generally think we know what those are. Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? Rats spread disease, decimate crops and very occasionally eat people alive. For… read more →
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 that Silicon Valley isn’t a force for good or… read more →
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 Journalism:… read more →