We were lucky enough to be invited to the launch of the new MINI R56 and Dane took these video clips of Russ Swift, one of the world’s best stunt drivers, showing what you can do with it. You need to turn the ABS off though! “Dancing” to Queen Parallel Parking in less than 2 [...]

The 50 most important people on the web, according to an article on MSN.com by PC World, reads like a what?’s hot online and lists the most influential people on the web. Contrary to Time Magazine?’s Person of the Year being, well you and me, PC World have compiled a list of the top internet [...]

Now that Al Gore has received his Oscar, it would appear that it’s now safe for criticism of the whole ‘global warming’ thing to ramp up. A couple of weeks back we had the revelation that Gore’s 10,000 sq ft Nashville home churns through approx 221,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, compared with an [...]

Last month at Reuters: Viacom demands YouTube pull down videos This week at The Onion: Viacom Demands YouTube Pull 400,000 Ex-TV Viewers From Its Site Heh. Heh heh heh..

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.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, YouTube CEO and co-founder Chad Hurley has announced plans to start sharing advertising revenue with content creators. This is going to be really interesting. Stay tuned for some big developments (will elaborate later). Told you so.

Last year I made some observations about the role the pornography industry has played in the establishment of emerging technologies. I won’t go into detail here, so here’s the link to the original post if interested. I couldn’t help but think back to that little gem when, browsing the NY Times this morning, I found [...]

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 [...]

2006 was an interesting year with the spectacular sale of auction house Trademe and the massive uptake of ?"you & me?" media channels like YouTube.com and Myspace.com. So what will 2007 bring? How will this impact on Kiwi marketers ? here are our predictions. Ferrit will fly like a pig Following substantial ?reallocation of human [...]

It looks like Sealand is up for sale again. This time the front-runner is Pirate Bay, the world’s biggest Torrent search engine and arch enemy of the MPAA. With an asking price of around half a billion clams I’d be surprised if they manage to pull it off, but then again – anyone who says [...]