I hate to say I told you so, but… Telecom chief executive Theresa Gattung will leave New Zealand’s largest listed company on June 30. Ok can’t resist. I told you so.

I’ve been contacted a few times this week regarding recent references I’ve made to The Venice Project – mostly people wondering what what on Earth I was talking about. There’s so much more to this than I can (read: ‘have time to’) say now, but here’s the low-down. Remember Kazaa? Well, the two guys who [...]

<rant> Ok so about 4 months ago I managed to smash the screen on my trusty Sony Ericsson 3G mobile. This phone had served me well, and I was actually pretty gutted that I wasn’t offered an equivalent Sony as a replacement. If I had been, I probably would have avoided a bunch of trouble. [...]

Yep, Christmas is just around the corner, and with it the regular barrage of advertising for this year’s expensive must-haves. In addition to many new flavours of the ubiquitous ipod and (at last!!!) the launch of a NZ iTunes Music Store, gaming consoles are once-again the hot item. Sony looks to have missed the boat [...]

This is awesome. Chris – any chance we’ll see one of these at Pepsi Towers this year? Any aspiring engineers looking to build your own tasty beverage tree, click here for the blow-by-blow.

Ok, so some of you will have picked up by now that my general opinion of ad agencies isn’t that high. By far the majority are still stuck in the 80′s, pouring money into pointless TVC’s that may win awards and raise a few smiles but contribute nothing to the client’s bottom line. This campaign, [...]

This is an interesting consumer generated media campaign being run by Blackberry at the moment: I entered and you don’t get to win anything, however, I am happy to be explain why I love my Blackberry. They intend to use the stories in their advertising campaign next year, it will be interesting to see what [...]

A judge in Delaware has just taken the unusual step of requiring a pedophile to wear a t-shirt that says ‘I am a registered sex offender’ in bold letters. Good job, I say. Thanks to all the publicity though, I’m wondering how long it’s going to be before that one’s available from T-Shirt Hell. (Seriously [...]

Air NZ begins a direct service to china this month, running three 777′s to Shanghai and (hopefully) back a week. No surprises there – we’ve all known for some time that China is an emerging economic powerhouse and there are big bucks to be made if you can get in. The surprise for me is [...]

Want to know why? I’ll tell you why – they’ve got a license to print money, that’s why! An article in the Financial Times today pointed out that Google is set to overtake Britain’s main TV channels in advertising revenue. The internet search company?’s advertising revenue in the UK is expected this year to surpass [...]