Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: It's NetHui Week

Simon Grigg

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:10:21 +1200

(I use US growth as a proxy – that country probably has the highest level of Internet adoption).

It's 27th.

Sacha

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:11:47 +1200

What a thoroughly mad argument

it's our government's one, coincidentally.

Kumara Republic

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:58:07 +1200

No worries, folks! We can just sign the agreement then ignore it! What could go wrong?

[[http://www.crikey.com.au/2004/02/12/boilermaker-bill-on-free-trade/?wpmp_tp=1| __“In doing so, the Washington Post says:

“Mr. Zoellick calculated that flawed trade deals are better than none, so he went ahead with Australia. It is true that Australian tariff cuts will boost…

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:55:48 +1200

Had a skim. They don't mention the impact of the Internet in enabling the fisking of ridiculous concepts like "consumer surplus" (this prices goods and services we have today in terms of what people would have paid for them at a historical point. For instance, one might ascribe a huge…

Russell Brown

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:49:07 +1200

Meanwhile the Granny is going all, “The TPPA Is Here To Help Deliver You To Greater Prosperity”.

What a thoroughly mad argument.

No worries, folks! We can just sign the agreement then ignore it! What could go wrong?

Kumara Republic

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:46:20 +1200

Since you mention the TPPA, there was the ars technica artical the other day on the change in U.S. language around copyright (linking the change to ACTA getting the slapdown in Europe)

Meanwhile the Granny is going all, “The TPPA Is Here To Help Deliver You To Greater Prosperity”.

Already, NZ's…

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:33:13 +1200

Did you hear about when Dracula got management consultants in? They said he needed to interact more with stakeholders....

Martin Lindberg

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:09:06 +1200

The sheer virtuosity of modern conference presentations is a thing to behold.

Comic Sans, amirite...

David Hood

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:14:02 +1200

Since you mention the TPPA, there was the ars technica artical the other day on the change in U.S. language around copyright (linking the change to ACTA getting the slapdown in Europe)

article

Russell Brown

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:04:53 +1200

InternetNZ has released twin reports on the economic impact of the internet in New Zealand, from Infometrics and NZIER.

Stephen Knightly

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:50:40 +1200

I'm on the economic opportunities panel on Friday morning, sharing lessons from our fast-growing video games export sector.

However, I'm just as passionate about how we can beef up e-learning, e-health and citizen engagement using games and game techniques. We get a lot of our digital literacy from games and…

Russell Brown

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:46:49 +1200

Certainly not a trade expo.

Anything but.

Sacha

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:45:01 +1200

Twitter stream may also give some idea of the different people attending.

Sacha

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:42:33 +1200

It's mainly group discussion sessions and presentations rather than schmoozing (couple of specific 'networking' sessions in the programme). Certainly not a trade expo.

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:41:09 +1200

I feel I should go to these things to help ny career, but have this massive aversion to standing in a room balancing a sandwich and a glass of wine while chatting to a bunch of (almost entirely) blokes who I don't know.

(I used to go to expos in…

Sacha

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:33:22 +1200

I'm part of the Digital Inclusion panel at 4pm on Wednesday which I am looking forward to. Anyone who's attending, do say hi any time during the three days – I look like my Twitter avatar (for now).

Public Address

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:33:22 +1200

Discussion from blog post.