Google deletes Social Media Consortium blog without explanation
on Nov 21, 2009Google, through its Blogger subsidiary, has now deleted the Social Media Consortium blog, for no reason whatsoever.   For the last few months, the company has made access to the blog next to impossible. It would not let us post on it, even...

Those applications you blocked are still in your Facebook account
on Nov 14, 2009If you’re anything like me, you might indulge in one of those silly little Facebook quizzes from time to time. But because I dislike how applications can access my private data—and over the years I’ve revealed many instances where Facebook has...

Surprises at GM and Chrysler this week
on Nov 5, 2009This has been a fascinating week not so much for me (the Mayor has always maintained to me that she would consider a fourth term, and Sir Robert Jones’s quip about being the corporate backer behind a mayoral candidate and council was on the cards f...

Google will frustrate plans to charge for news
on Nov 4, 2009We publishers had a very entertaining morning at Trentham Racecourse on Melbourne Cup Day Tuesday, organized by our printer, Format Print, and one of the presenters mentioned that if News Corp. wanted to begin charging for content, it would likely su...

Notes from my Sunrise appearance
on Oct 31, 2009It was very enjoyable heading over to the TV3 Wellington studio for my spot on Sunrise last Thursday. It was the first time I mentioned my Wellington mayoral campaign on live network television, even if the rest of the segment was about getting...

Campaign graphics for Your Wellington
on Oct 31, 2009I blogged today on my free wifi ideas at Your Wellington and mentioned that there are campaign graphics to download. There’s a feature with the Mimbo theme we’re using at yourwellington.org where the images are automatically resized (it’s...

Tourism Tech notes and slides up
on Oct 22, 2009I told the audience at my Tourism Tech keynote that my speech notes and slides would be online at the event’s site. I’ve had a few requests in the days after as they hadn’t been uploaded, which is totally forgiveable: if you knew that co-hosts...

Letting my imagination run away, or: can you bank on the Wales?
on Oct 22, 2009A couple of months ago, Westpac confirmed they had sacked the employee who had originally, mistakenly, given $10 million to a couple when they requested a $100,000 loan. The couple eventually scarpered and are believed to be in Red China. Eithe...

The US car industry is looking familiar
on Oct 22, 2009The largest car maker in the land was effectively nationalized. It then killed more brands and product lines, even ones that could have survived.   Chrysler, hanging on to unloved mainstream sedans such as the Avenger, was in a deep crisis...

Ask a genius
on Oct 22, 2009From Stefan Engeseth’s blog, a very clever programme from a mutual friend of ours working with the Nobel people.Here’s your chance to ask a really smart guy a question. Now, this is engagement. Something a mayor should do.   There’s a...