Idealog
This land is my land, this land is (not) your land
As a country trying to find common ground between globalisation and Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) parochialism, the issues around land ownership—particularly farming—are getting a tad muddy. Dita De Boni investigates. Read more »
Book review: How Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think?
Did you know the internet and the web are two separate things? Read more »
Facebook’s biggest problem? It’s a media company
Facebook’s advertising isn’t exactly setting the world on fire – and its social nature may be to blame, writes GigaOm's Mathew Ingram. Read more »
A quick word with ... entrepreneur/art director Kyra Clarke
Kyra Clarke is the driving force behind international art and design publication Threaded Magazine, now in its seventh year. We caught up with her just as the smoke was clearing and Threaded XII went to print (it's scheduled for release on May 25). Read more »
Telecom doubles its data, jumps back in the advertising game
Telecom holds around half of the total residential ISP market, but it's looking to increase that, sweeten the deal its for existing customers and get more people streaming by doubling the amount of data for all Total Home broadband packages for no extra charge (Ed: In fact, just the other day a nice Telecom rep came knocking at my door offering TRIPLE data on Total Home). Read more »
Google's Knowledge Graph: Things, not strings
Google is starting to roll out its newest search feature, Knowledge Graph, an enhancement that serves up extra info instantly in the sidebar of your search result. Read more »
Cavalier Bremworth cashes on Target's sticky, sorry story
You'd have been hard pressed to miss the brouhaha over the over-familiar carpet cleaner who got busted busting one out on Target this week – and the accompanying hashtag. Read more »
Facebook and the tale of two media models
Old media covets Facebook's IPO billions, while new social media envies the old's content, writes Michael Wolff in the Guardian. Read more »
Sky TV fingers competitors
Sky TV is pointing the finger at competitors after the Commerce Commission announced an investigation into its content contracts with ISPs yesterday. Read more »
Igloo gets the green light but Sky under scrutiny
Sky TV and TVNZ's joint venture, Igloo, has gotten the go-ahead from the Commerce Commission, and looks set to launch next month as planned – but a separate investigation is now underway into Sky's content contracts with ISPs. Read more »
Taking New Zealand businesses to the next level
New Zealand has all the basics to help businesses thrive – the challenge is to step it up a notch. Read more »
The name of our agricultural game
Agriculture's worthy, yes. The under-pinning of our economy, yes. But sexy? Read more »
Z Energy touts successful year post-rebrand
A year on from Shell's evolution into Z Energy (which was met with a mixed reception) the company says it's sitting pretty in the preferred brand stakes. Read more »
Story of Send traces the journey of a humble email
How many emails would you send in the course of a normal day? Dozens? Hundreds?
And what exactly happens after you hit send? Read more »
Starseed PR launches with impressive consumer brand lineup
There's a new PR agency on the media scene and it already counts Cloudy Bay wines, BMW, Auckland Ring Company, Neutrogena, Aveeno, and Clean & Clear among its clients. Read more »
