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Idealog—in the ideas business

  • Kiwi mag White Fungus on an international roll

    2012-05-23 14:40:58 // // The Idealog Blog | 2 comments
    Just weeks after its showing at an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, art magazine White Fungus is all set for inclusion in another exhibition in New York.
  • A novel approach to publishing

    2012-04-23 12:40:58 // // Idealog #39: workshop | 1 comment
    Future generations may look upon literary agents and publishing houses as curiously old-fashioned.
  • How To: Turn your passion into cash

    2012-04-11 09:42:38 // Idealog #38: features
    Self-publishing is an avenue more and more authors are taking. Here's how to make the self-publishing route work for you.
  • Book review: Scooped

    2012-02-16 12:38:19 // // The Idealog Blog
    The latest book to come out of AUT Media (and the first new text on journalism in this country in a decade or so), Scooped: The politics and power of journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand runs the gamut from academic criticism to practical ideas and discussion.
  • Commission calls for media watchdog for the cyber age

    2011-12-12 15:03:12 // | 1 comment
    The Law Commission calls for a single independent regulator of all news media.
  • Good takes out cover of the year at the Maggies

    2011-11-10 09:54:44 //
    We may have come away from the Maggies empty-handed, but we're still celebrating at Idealog HQ: our sister mag Good’s December/January 2011 issue took the awards by storm and beat out competition from across all five categories to emerge as Magazine Cover of the Year.
  • APN augments entertaining reality

    2011-11-01 15:13:20 // | 2 comments
    The Herald’s TimeOut section has been reinvented as an interactive print product, leading APN to claim to be the first New Zealand publisher to launch an augmented reality app.
  • Potential for publishers in new Amazon Kindle

    2011-10-04 14:32:06 // The Idealog Blog
    New e-readers present great opportunities for news media, says Frédéric Filloux, but flexibility will be paramount.
  • Author takes on traditional publishing with Pear Jam Books

    2011-09-28 11:50:29 // | 1 comment
    Auckland-based author-turned-publisher Jill Marshall is taking on traditional publishing houses with Pear Jam Books.
  • Report paints grim overview of NZ media landscape

    2011-09-15 12:05:12 // | 9 comments
    Room for public debate is shrinking with the New Zealand media becoming a plaything of global shareholders and economising, digitising and monetising, researchers warn.
  • Fashion Quarterly heads indoors

    2011-09-07 10:36:37 //
    Fashion Quarterly is about to add a bit of class to the worlds of food and interiors, taking it inside with Fashion Quarterly Entertaining.
  • Now you can fly [Dumbo feather: People's stories, in their own words]

    2011-06-10 06:00:00 // // Idealog #33: features | 1 comment
    Kate Bezar rejected all the rules of business and made up her own rules about publishing to create the ‘mook’ — a magazine/book hybrid that’s as inspirational as its subject matter. By Kris Herbert.
  • Surprise attack

    2010-11-05 06:00:00 // // Idealog #30: now
    Online magazine Coup de Main started out as an amusement between friends. A year and a half later, it’s a thriving business.
  • Full circle

    2009-10-30 11:02:42 // // Idealog #24: now | 1 comment
    This must be Dick Frizzell’s year. His Four Square guy is everywhere, his wine won gold at the 2009 New Zealand International Wine Show, and his book, Dick Frizzell: The Painter, has been released to wide acclaim. Nobody blends the creative and the commercial quite like Frizzell, but where does he draw the line?
  • Free thinking

    2009-10-02 11:23:14 // // Idealog #23: features | 5 comments
    We pay for the Herald, but not for its website; we’ll give money to Sky while we let the state-owned TVNZ struggle. As business thinkers proclaim the age of the free and Rupert Murdoch heads a fightback, Matt Cooney asks if we really know the value of a dollar. Plus keep on giving.
  • Just don’t

    2009-09-21 14:03:09 // // Idealog #23: workshop
    A birdspotter’s guide to the corporate saboteur.
  • Global curiosity

    2009-09-14 12:05:57 // // Idealog #23: workshop | 1 comment
    Rhythm, noise and the disco.
  • Seriously permanent

    2009-06-30 10:47:14 // // Idealog #22: interact
    Semi-Permanent must be due a name change. Back in 2009 for its sixth year, the landmark New Zealand design event is positively durable. It could also be called the granddaddy of a new wave of creative Kiwi events.
  • Gongs for the gang

    2009-06-26 16:11:08 // // The Idealog Blog | 3 comments
    That's the cover of the year, there. A brief brag about our wins at the MPA Magazine Awards.
  • The Unlocker

    2009-06-18 16:21:52 // // Idealog #21: now
    Author Cory Doctorow is a merciless critic of the mega-corporations that seek to control creative content—and he’s happy to give his own work away for free
  • Parmesh Shahani at X|Media|Lab

    2009-05-22 17:52:24 // // Idealog TV
    Lauren Bartlett meets a key VC to find out why Kiwi companies should be heading to the subcontinent.
  • The day of the Gecko

    2009-02-05 11:04:13 // // Idealog #19: features
    Flying in the face of popular opinion, in a tiny niche in a difficult industry, Julia Marshall’s Gecko Press has proven the naysayers wrong. By Nicky Chapman