2012 is shaping up to be an interesting and exciting year – and I don’t mean all that Mayan hype! I’m starting the month by moving from the Dunedin Public Libraries marketing team and joining the Dunedin City Council’s web team. The web team has in turn been incorporated in to a council wide communications and marketing team as part of some internal restructuring undertaken at the end of 2011. While I’ll still look after [...]

Wednesday November 23rd 2011 was a very interesting online news day. Not so much for the actual news story – but rather what followed. The Twittersphere was abuzz earlier in the day after a helicopter crashed at Auckland’s Viaduct Basin while installing a fake Christmas Tree. Video coverage of the installation work was at the time being webstreamed live by the tvnz.co.nz team. It’s an event you can never imagine free-to-air television affording live coverage [...]

If you missed the news the Apple iPhone 4S Siri personal assistant was offline for a couple of days late last week (Friday / Saturday New Zealand time) due to hosted server problems ‘in the cloud’. It’s apparently highly network dependant and polls the Internet when you ask questions such as when your next xyz appointment is due etc. I found the reported outcry from United States residents that enjoyed access to the beta product [...]

Another full day yesterday, perhaps the best so far in terms of the keynotes and breakout sessions that I attended. The day kicked off with a relaxed presentation from Michael Houlihan at Te Papa posing twelve questions delegates may want to consider as they ponder the future of libraries in the changing world in which we live. Michael came across as a thoughtful chap not trying to force any earnest agenda and I liked his [...]