Campaign update: videos three to five
ShareShare on Tumblr I have been posting these on the videos’ page as they became public, but maybe I should have added them to this blog, too, for those of you following on RSS. The multilingual one...
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Responding to blog comments—and where to from here?
ShareShare on Tumblr WordPress, with its automatic deactivation of Jetpack after each update, messed up, so I have no metrics for the last two months of this blog. Nor did it send me emails notifying...
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Business etiquette 101: don’t threaten lawsuits against a customer proposing...
ShareShare on Tumblr Interesting to spot this link. When I started Autocade in 2008, I approached Haymarket, letting them know I was a Classic and Sportscar reader since it began in the 1980s, and I...
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Facebook pages are broken
ShareShare on Tumblr While my personal Facebook page and profile continue to have good reach and engagement, the Lucire Facebook is down, especially compared with this time last year. We’ve...
View ArticleIt’s still wise to bet against Facebook
ShareShare on Tumblr A non-peer-reviewed academic article from Princeton predicts Facebook will be toast by ’17, and Facebook has very cleverly responded using similar methodology to say that Princeton...
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Four ingredients of leadership
ShareShare on Tumblr I was asked by my Alma Mater, Victoria University of Wellington, to give a 90-minute lecture on leadership last week to students visiting New Zealand from Peking University and the...
View ArticleIkea tries to shut down its biggest fan site, showing us how the company...
ShareShare on Tumblr In an age of social media, you would think it was the most stupid thing to try to shut down the biggest online community you have. Ikea has done just that, on IP grounds,...
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A familiar call after two mayoral campaigns on Wellington’s knowledge economy
ShareShare on Tumblr The latest Victoria University study, expressing that there is a shortage of creative people, sounds very familiar. Dr Richard Norman highlights in a Fairfax Press editorial...
View ArticleWhen referring to your Australian office might not be a smart thing to do
ShareShare on Tumblr There are some companies that do not realize that we live in a global community. And there are at least two who have done themselves a disservice by referring our account or...
View ArticleThe 2014 General Election: the impressions the parties have left, so far
ShareShare on Tumblr A Kiwi friend, based in Australia, and I were discussing the General Election yesterday on the phone. First, I told her, you wouldn’t know one was on. It’s like Christmas when...
View ArticleThe descent of social media as a debating tool
ShareShare on Tumblr Jo Komisarczuk referred, on Twitter, this piece by Rory Cellan-Jones. The title, ‘Twitter and the poisoning of online debate’, gives you a good indication of the topic, and it...
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Autocade hits 5,000,000 views: what are its most read and least searched?
ShareShare on Tumblr With Autocade exceeding the 5,000,000 page view milestone (it’s on 5·12 million), I thought it might be fun to look at a few of the models on the site: the most popular, the least...
View ArticleBypass Auckland when you can
ShareShare on Tumblr It’s a shame I had to write this to Auckland Airport today (salutation and closing omitted): I’d like you guys to know that on Monday night, your inter-terminal bus never came....
View ArticleEverything’s perfect with those Auckland systems, nothing to see here
ShareShare on Tumblr I contacted Auckland Airport through its Facebook on Tuesday over the matter in my previous post, and got an immediate reply from someone monitoring its social media. She tells me...
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FCC rules in favour of ’net neutrality (at least we think it has)
Share I’ve gone into the reasons I support ’net neutrality elsewhere, but it was nice to hear about this on the wireless: even though we still don’t know the specifics, as the FCC has kept this to...
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Found a Facebook bot? Facebook wants you to leave it as reporting option...
Share PS.: As of 11.28 a.m. GMT, eight hours after the post below, Facebook has put its normal reporting options back.—JY Facebook appears to be giving up on the bot fight. As of today, you can no...
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Farewell, Manhattan: switching to the Cooler Master Storm Quick Fire TK...
Share The Cooler Master Storm Quick Fire TK, with white case. On Tuesday, my Manhattan keyboard, for which I gave a glowing review on Amazon, gave up the ghost. I’m not entirely sure why but through...
View ArticleSlides and a podcast: my MMBA 505 lecture and Access Granted, episode 45
Share As promised to the MMBA 505 class at Victoria University of Wellington last night, here are my slides. My thanks to Dr Kala Retna for inviting me along as the guest speaker. To the students:...
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When mistrust brings us together
Share I can be staunch on IP protection in a lot of cases—but in the case of Martin Shkreli of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG hiking the price of an Aids drug from $13·50 to $750 per pill, not so much (for...
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How can we help those fooled into believing what their local brands are?
Share How interesting to see a silly Tweet of mine make the Murdoch Press and lead an opinion column—I’m told it even hit the news.com.au home page. It’s a very old joke that I’ve told since 2002,...
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