Digital Consequences

Digital Consequences

Marshall McLuhan once said that “The old medium is always the content of the new medium.” He was talking about the way that movies were being morphed into TV but that idea is more than relevant now with all kinds of media being filtered through millions of...
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Uncharted Economic Waters?

One of my late grandmothers lived through the 1929 Depression in New Zealand and that stayed with her all her life.  She lived for 90+ years but the memories of those times were never far away and it always seemed like a pivotal moment which shaped a generation...
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Post Election Poll

Ahh.. its that time of the year when everyone is hanging out for a Christmas break. Summer in the Southern hemisphere is a grand time and even with the “not so positive” news about an extra ray of sunshine goes a long way. After the elections in NZ it is...
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NZ Election 2008 Results

These results may change slightly but here are the almost definitive results in percentage terms and equivalent seats. The official table for this is over here and the seats should stay the same but may be small changes in the total numbers over the next day or so....
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NZ Election Polls

The NZ Election is November 8 which is tomorrow.  Labour needs the Greens and The Maori Party to make the numbers work and even then it probably won’t be enough. Official results from 7pm NZ time on 8th Nov. Russell Brown has made a partial assessment of Labours...