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One liners – too much to read, inane chatter and sick chickens

By Julie Starr | Published: July 6, 2011
A handful of one-liners from things recently read. Just because. “The number one reason people cancel their subscriptions is that they can’t read it all.” - Economist digital editor Tom Standage. >> #MobileMedia11 video: The secret to making money from mobile? Stop trying “For a long time I thought the most important point of journalism [...]
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Links: data.govt, temporariness, paywall wait

By Julie Starr | Published: November 9, 2009
Data.govt.nz launches Great to see that the government, via the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has launched data.govt.nz, a website that aims to pull together all manner of non-personal government data in formats suitable for developers to work with. This is what the people at Open.nz.org were pushing for and it looks like the site is [...]
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This is why Webstock rocks

By Julie Starr | Published: February 20, 2009
I'm at Webstock and I'm sitting across the table from a guy who built the BBC's iPlayer and customisable homepage, next to the manager of NZ On Screen and listening to US journalist and blogger Annalee Newitz talk about how science fiction gives us vocabulary and a frame of reference for emerging technologies.
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