Recent Posts Tagged With 'internet'

• 5 on Monday

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 22:00 in politics, internet, technology, money, society, new zealand, copyright, law, tax, debian, s92a

  Welcome to this week’s 5 on Monday. February is nearly over, and there is only a few weeks left of day light savings. So, what was notable last week: not having a Tax debt is a wonderful feeling after so long section 92a brought people to fight fo...

• Legal Downloads Increase By 25%

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 23:24 in internet, technology, business, society, downloads, piracy, music industry, law and order, sunscription service

  EARLIER this month I wrote a piece on the music industry (Is The Music Industry Dead?) Today, I heard a soundbite on the radio that last year, 95% of all music downloaded was done so illegally. This was a scarey number! Then a few more “minor&#...

• Print Media to Internet - The Challenge!

  Posted on Thursday January 15th, 2009 at 14:15 in internet, technology, business, conversion, aggregation, data mapping, display adverts

  A couple of years ago I was doing some work for a large media company. They needed to get display adverts from their various newspapers and magazine transferred to an online search engine from their main site. Text adverts were easy for them, but ex...

• Is the music industry dead?

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 23:23 in art, Culture, internet, technology, entertainment, money, business

  I read some article ages ago (still trying to find it again, but that issue is  for another time) about the state of the music industry. They were, and are, in deep shit.  This is bad for the artists, and largely the executives of the various music...

• Procrastination as a [Put profession here]

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 18:28 in internet, technology, business, procrastination, motivation, writing, email, time management, email rules

  I have yet to find any profession that is not prone to procrastination. My own personal experience with procrastination is intimate and long term.  In fact, since I should be working on something else write now, I guess writing this little bitty is ...

• Warning over kids’ holiday photos on internet

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 18:36 in family, life, internet, children, photos, society, community, safety, predators, law and order

  Experts are suggesting people keep photos of children private because of the few sexual predators out there. The internet is an amazing place, where friends and family can share with each other quickly and easily.  For people to have to watch what t...