Brent Shaw was wondering what to do during a six-month course of chemotherapy. Build a boat, obviously, but he went a little deeper than that. Read about Brent’s Drydive submersible boat in the latest issue of Idealog, out now, and on our website.
Knol te reo Maori
Google to take on Wikipedia? We’re not sure what to make of Knol, apart from ack-knol-edging it’s a dreadful name. Knol, which anyone can contribute to, has been in the works since last year, and launched this week.
Knol features ‘moderated collaboration’ in which readers can make edit suggestions to articles that the author can then either accept, modify or reject before they’re published. So, it’s Wikipedia with more control for the authors and perhaps more importantly, with AdSense ads for revenue sharing. Hmm. It might just take off actually.
And good on Google and Potaua and Nikolasa Biasiny-Tule plus Te Taura Whiri i te reo Maori for translating the search page into te reo. The project has been in the works, done by volunteers, since 2001 and is finally ready.
Also check out the new Korero Māori site, which has many Maori language resources.
Dream client
The ad agency that received this brief must have thought all its Christmases had arrived at once.
In the words of Pablo himself: “A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case, a picture is a sum of destructions.” This series shows what was destroyed along the way to the 11th version of a lithograph. (Via 37 Signals)
Morris presently teaches at Tulane University, Now Orleans, and intends to use the time to complete her work that she’s been researching for the past six years, about her ancestor Paratene te Manu, described as “subject of Lindauer, associate of Hongi, warrior, Christian convert, emissary to Britain and one of the last inhabitants of Little Barrier Island.”
Demystifying Angel Investment
The ICEHOUSE invites budding entrepreneurs to the inaugural Demystifying Angel Investment event on 23 July at the Decima Glenn Room at the University of Auckland Business School.
This event has been created as an opportunity for entrepreneurs to meet potential investors and gain some insight about angel investing from some seasoned investors who are members of the ICE Angels network.
Game on for XNA
A democratised game development environment? That’s where community games are born. Microsoft has opened up its XNA games development framework to amateurs. This means anyone can create a game for the Xbox 360, and sell it at the Xbox Live Marketplace, provided it passes a peer review.
Kev’s crowd
Nice to meet the 450-odd of you who traipsed out on a wet Monday to hear our issue 16 cover lad, Kevin bloody Roberts, speak at the AUT-Idealog Innovation Series Plus. Roberts tried to get Vincent Heeringa to eat his words on Lovemarks, discussed why recessions are awesome and how to take advantage, and filled us in on exactly why blue is the new green. We also saluted our emerging talent Kahra and Paul Scott-James who spoke on their mobile-minute-movie world domination (more on that in the next Idealog). We’ll put some video on our website as soon as we have it.
Archibots
“In 1994 Umberto Eco wrote an article comparing Catholicism and Protestantism to the desktop metaphor operating systems of Mac/Windows3+ and the command line OS of DOS/Unix respectively. The following robots illustrate this idea that software and religion have more in common than not. Plus they look cool.”
Can’t say it better than that.
IBM Forum—Sustainable Innovation
IBM Forum 08, the premier business event of the year for business and technology professionals, has an array of speakers for the event taking place in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland in August.
IBM Forum 08 focuses on Sustainable Innovation, starting with the keynote, Ray Avery, a Kiwi scientist/entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Medicine Mondiale. Ray is developing sustainable products and technologies for world markets, such as his latest invention ‘Proteinforte’. Ray will be talking about global opportunities for high tech innovation in healthcare, education and infrastructure.
If you’re interested in finding out the latest business trends, register for IBM Forum today.
Fast and furious
Pecha Kucha is coming to City Gallery in Wellington next week. This fast and furious format gives ten or more “outspoken-creative-types” twenty slide images to present, each timed to display for only twenty seconds.
In six minutes and forty seconds, the talk is over. Nice. Pecha Kucha should be mandatory for anyone with access to PowerPoint.
Check it out on Wednesday, July 30 in Wellie. Doors will open from 7pm and there’s a bar, plus the sounds of DJ Jack Uzi and visuals from DNation’s Rob Appierdo before the Pecha Kucha session at 8:20pm.
The Pecha Kucha line-up includes photographer Ann Shelton, designers Candywhistle and Nathan Goldsworthy, theatre director Christian Penny, architect Dorita Hannah, writer Duncan Sarkies, filmmaker Rachael Davies, game designer James Everett, illustrators Adam Errington and Nic Marshall, White Fungus editor Ron Hansom as well as Sophie Jerram on art and sustainability and Luka Hinse from Pecha Kucha, Auckland.
“Grant Ryan has some advice he’d like to share: if a Google-sized company puts what seems like a fair amount of cash on the table and offers to buy you, for God’s sake, take it.”
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