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...
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...
