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...
by JAK | Jul 12, 2016 | WordPress
Brute force login attacks on WordPress sites seem to be increasing. What I have noticed is that the number of IP numbers being used as an attacking forces seem to have grown in number and intensity. I look after a number of websites and occasionally I will get a...
by JAK | Jun 28, 2016 | culture, industry futures
At this point it would be an understatement to think that the Brexit vote in the U.K is a huge moment of truth for all Western democracies. I still maintain trying to solve a complex question regarding E.U membership with a simplistic referendum was a very bad idea....
by JAK | Jun 25, 2016 | culture, industry futures
Yesterday we watched on as the UK voted to leave the EC. That such a complex issue was put to a simple yes/no referendum vote by an arrogant P.M is a travesty. The best description I have seen is that all of those voting to leave were very much like turkeys voting for...
by JAK | May 19, 2016 | culture, development, films, music
Sonita the movie is based on the story of Sonita Alizadeh. Sonita moved to Iran as a 10 year old from Afghanistan and started writing songs and wanting to perform as a rap artist. “After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in...
by JAK | May 16, 2016 | big ideas, culture, TEDx
A few weeks ago Samuel Gibson spoke at TEDxAuckland where he wowed the audience with his personal story of being born “the luckiest boy in the world” despite having osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder that makes for brittle bones that fracture...
by JAK | May 11, 2016 | culture, general business
Over at Public Address there is a post called Forgetting what we didn’t know which is about the New Zealand media / government response to the #PanamaPapers. In short various stories and government comments imply that the revelations have amounted to nothing....
by JAK | May 6, 2016 | big ideas, culture, TEDx
Since the first TEDxAuckland events back in 2009 there have been a huge number of speakers (100+) and attendees (7000+) who come along each year to be surprised, challenged, inspired, entertained and informed. In the early days finding speakers was easy because the...
by JAK | May 4, 2016 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
The Democrats in the U.S have a serious problem. Their preferred candidate Hillary Clinton was supposed to have everything stitched up by now. And then Bernie has gone and won Indiana. His 18th win in a race that was supposed to be a slam dunk for Clinton. The Clinton...
