Tudou.com was launched two months after YouTube, so it cannot be regarded as a copycat site. Similarities are obvious but hey, the differences are exciting. It's a cool way to waste time. Clicking away on the home page videos I...
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Professionalism plus youth: an unbeatable mix
15-year-old New Zealander competes for U.S. Ad Dollars Steve Rubel in Advertising Age sees this as proof that "the world is flat": in other words, with broadband, even a kid from the bottom of the planet can make waves in...
Survey of Book Publishers in New Zealand
The Book Publishers Association of New Zealand has released its 2007 report on the state of publishing here. Colmar Brunton did the research and wrote the report. Here's the Executive Summary. 126 organisations completed the survey In 2007, participating Publishers...
US customers are demanding more from e-government
The latest quarterly E-government Satisfaction Index is out from FORESEE Results. It concludes: Citizen satisfaction with federal government websites has hit a plateau, slipping a half percent to 73.3. Expectations rise, so government departments and agencies must respond to increasing...
Happy hyphens in exile
16,000 hyphens have gone missing, it seems. So say the Oxford Shorter English Dictionary people, and every second blogger on the face of the earth has commented on the fact. Russell Smith in Canada's Globe and Mail has one of...