Monthly Archives: July 2009
In praise of open New Zealand
I’m heartened by some ‘open’ developments in New Zealand. Firstly, kudos to Nat Torkington and Glen Barnes for setting up http://opengovt.org.nz, a website that promises to catalogue any government data that’s publicly available for download and further use. This is cool. It can become a useful port of call for anyone looking for data to [...]
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The New York Times on Walter Cronkite
The New York Times has a nice video tribute to Walter Cronkite with images and footage from the assassination of President John F Kennedy, Vietnam and the moon landing, and a fine opening sentence: “Walter Cronkite’s legacy was serving as the most trusted man in America during the biggest events of the 20th century.” Quite a [...]
List of NZ media folk on Twitter
Bill Bennett is compiling a list of NZ media folk on Twitter. Have a look and see if there’s anyone missing.
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NBR gets a pile of free feedback and advice
Lance Wiggs and Bernard Hickey, among others, have written useful posts this week in response to the NBR’s decision to start charging for around 20 per cent of its online content. There’s a lot in both posts, which make a point by point response to the reasons given by Barry Colman, the NBR’s publisher, for the [...]
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