Is there a prize?

I think naked DSL is going to become a reality, though only in a small way.

And mobile internet is going to happen more and more. I'm picking vodafone to make a big next step and try and grab the market?

Is there a prize?

Good point. I'll see what I can do.

Well so far it looks like the Kiwiblog Right are doing there very best to shut-down oppositional leftwing voices if their full-on troll attack on the Standard at the moment is anything to go by.

Sadly, I'm not sure what makes that different from any other week.

Although I supposed?

"Now, you say the accused was on Bebo ... is that an illicit substance of some kind?"

As to whether or not the "NZ internet" matters, I would suggest it is only in that type of sphere – i.e. local news and discussion. Although I predict an increase in local interweb shopping I suppose -?

NZ is going to catch onto the youtube/election thing – this will be our first election where videos accessible online are going to make a reasonable sized play.

I wondered what had happened to all the post-BDO (or even pre-BDO) blogs this year. Then I realised there were dozens of?

Given that the BDO moved to vid-blogs rather?

We've got TVNZ offering tv on demand, and moves towards watching movies?

more colin the kitten

Okay!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4P7E-8PLY

From Saturday. The video didn't convert too well so the YouTube version is a bit dark and fuzzy, but you get the general idea of feline athleticism.

Given that the BDO moved to vid-blogs rather than text-blogs is that an indicator of how the local blog community may head?

I was about to say that some people can express themselves better verbally than in written form (and vice versa) so that a video blog might be more?

I really want to see some Auckland based web startups along the ines of PlanHQ, Xero, HireThings, etc. I think with the Auckland Web Meetup we are getting a great community happening and it will be good?

Rage Against The Machine are not awesome

No, I disagree. Rage Against The Machine should inspire awe in all, even if it's just awe at how long grown men can project such an amazingly sustained blast of adolescent political angst. Plus they've got groove.

But it's a lot easier to upload a short clip of Rage Against The Machine being awesome at the Big Day Out than it is to describe that experience with words. Is it the lazy way?

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it's a really stupid thing?

Your hopes?

satellite internet provided by international providers completely smash the data cap strangleholds of local providers.
no international data cable excuses.

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it's a really stupid thing to want to do."

Elvis Costello 1983

Not that Elvis Costello hasn't written any books about music.

http://www.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm

however it is probably said in frustration that a journalist could try and explain what he was doing when one of the joys of music is the personal interpretation you make of it.

My point was?

Predicting technological advances is a mug's game. Even Moore's law may fail us.

Which makes the dancing not unreasonable.

What tune do you think is sung by those public loos we were talking about, Kracklite? Cue Water Music?

When I originaly got cable in late 2005, I started on a 5GB traffic plan for $69/mth. Just a year later, it quadrupled to 20GB – and all I had?

Predicting technological advances is a mug's game. Even Moore's law may fail us.

This I agree. However there are a couple of elective papers being run at the industrial design school (the fun one of Cuber street) that look at extending the interactive technology. One paper deals with input ;mouse?

Although I supposed it's a relief to Jordan Carter to have his longtime trolls go somewhere else for their jollies. I honestly think those clowns have no idea how their behaviour appears to relatively normal people.

I don't disagree with any of the above, but there's another part of that?

I've just spent the morning watching segments of the TV show FAME on Utube. I could take a cheap shot at the fan who posted 400 videos but it was strangely addictive. They just don't make TV like that anymore. So cheesey!?

I've just spent the morning watching segments of the TV show FAME on Utube.

Oh no. Now I'm going to have to go and watch them. Heeelp!

I loved the Fame movie too – especially how Leroy would parade around on rollerskates, cut-off jean shorts and a belly-button-revealing cropped T-shirt?

I think Leroy (the actor) died in Paris relatively recently, in straitened circumstances. RIP Leroy.

I think Leroy (the actor) died in Paris relatively recently, in straitened circumstances. RIP Leroy.

Gene Anthony Ray died in 2003, due to complications from a stroke and was reportedly HIV-positive (which can't have helped). Apparently, the same old story — a hell of a lot of money got turned?

Carrie: The Musical

Such a promising idea (bwahaha yeah. Right.)

Someone – can't recall who, but I think it might have been Eddie Van Halen – said most rock critics liked Elvis Costello because most of them looked like Elvis Costello.

Prediction for internet: A lot?

Telecom's roadside cabinet's using ADSL2+ (24Mbps, or more like 18 if you're lucky...) technology aren't going to provide enough bandwidth if 3 or 4 people ('mum, dad & the kids') each want to stream their own HD-channel/movie. When is the NZ govt. gonna wake?

Having spent the last 6months in Vancouver, the biggest thing I am missing?

So a satellite provider has to send all its traffic down one bit of bandwidth – that's a pretty scarce resource.

and yet those crazy japs aren't listening to your "no can do" speak.

japan launches high speed internet satellite almost as if to mock you.

Having spent the last 6months in Vancouver, the biggest thing I am missing is walking into more or less any half decent cafe and you could sit down to free wi-fi.

or mall or airport or park, just about anywhere in the world for that matter...its a part of the?

its a part of the World Wide Whatever which has passed NZ by.

the worlds not quite that good, you're talking asia for free, unfortunately large parts of europe are hooked on the pay model, although if you're lucky you can steal someones unprotected wireless connection. there's a site devoted?

the worlds not quite that good, you're talking asia for free,

No, I'm also talking the US and the UK in my experience, and much of Europe from third party knowledge. Asia in particular as you say..free wi-fi is everywhere simply because businesses realise that selling that extra cup of?

I mean it's a joke to walk into a cafe here and pay to telecom. Starbucks in?

and much of Europe from third party knowledge.

my european knowledge is first hand from 18 months ago.
There are lots of companies with wireless hotspots in airports and such but they expect you to have an account.

asia on the other hand was great.
japan was 15 wireless signals?

singapore was pay

its been free in Singapore for years in pretty much every major mall and Changi, I've logged on many times there. There is a free 512 service throughout the whole island as there is in KL. Most coffee shops sell you a voucher for an hour or?

sell you a voucher for an hour or two in SG. I suspect that's the way it is in Europe, or at least that's what I've been led to believe.

yep, available, but paid for, ie not free

yep, available, but paid for, ie not free

yes but see those links..some 300 wi-fi free spots in Paris alone. Had dinner with a German friend of mine last night who said that free Wi-fi is common in much of Germany too, you just need to know where to go.?

As John Kerry has just blogged on HuffPo

Trying to lock out the public is?

Man do I pine for the free wif-fi with coffee. I mean a computer is just a dumb too without it's connection to the world these days. How else am I going to win an argument without wiki?

So here's a challenge, how's your mash-ups? Anyone wanna collaborate in a site with maps of?

I am a Canadian woman living in New Zealand. The state of the internet here in New Zealand is pittyful.

Interesting lead pitch, before running the blog-spam. That reminds me about when the Star-bucks CEO came to tell us New Zealanders, that we have bad taste in coffee.

Interesting lead pitch, before running the blog-spam.

Yeah, insulting potential customers and not proof-reading your comment – that's so not the way to do it.

Should I leave it up there, then?

I think so, in the hope that Tanya Romanuk will participate into more meaningful discussions about the dark art of internet advertising, with in this award winning Internet space.