Dr Vacy Vlazna One year ago, on 15 August – 40 days into Israel’s 51 day monstrous assault on Gaza that was clocking up 1800 innocent Palestinian deaths – Adrian Orr, the CEO of the New Zealand Superfund (NZSF) took a cheap shot, a morally cheap low shot, at concerned young protesters who chained themselves […]
El Nino conditions in the Pacific Ocean typically mean an increased likelihood of stormy southerlies over New Zealand. This El Nino winter has been no exception, and the trend is set to continue as long range forecasts indicate colder than average ...
The New Zealand Paralympics swimming team is returning home with a haul of medals. Sophie Pascoe and Mary Fischer have a bucket each and this is of course a fantastic achievement. These two and other athletes that compete with a disability are game-changers. They break down stereotypes of what living with a disability means and they also make us proud as a nation.
But I don't want to perpetuate the myth that because someone is a disabled person, or disabled sports person, for that alone they... Читать дальше...
Over the past four decades, the business model for all media has been completely disrupted by the internet as established patterns of media consumption have completely changed.
Online time is now equal to TV watching time at around 14 hours per week - and roughly half that time is spent on Facebook. Here in New Zealand, advertising revenue for digital/interactive will overtake that for television for the first time this year. It overtook newspapers about two years ago and radio a year before that. Читать дальше...
In July the Packaging Forum announced a new initiative to introduce recycling bins so that shoppers can take back their used soft plastic bags to supermarkets and retail premises. The project is funded by industry with matched funding from the Government’s ...
Publishers with unique, must-read material and a well-heeled audience can charge readers. They sell subscriptions and build paywalls showing hints of tempting stories that non-customers can’t read. Everyone else has to rely on advertising revenue or deliberately run online publishing at a loss. That’s where the problems start: online advertising doesn’t work well for most […]
The EDS Wild Things Conference is off to a flying start. The day has been challenging and invigorating, with an incredible line-up of international and domestic speakers.