Google’s Penguin updates might not always be to blame; and the task of ﬁnding a keyboard

15.08.2012/13.30

Creative Commons It’s been fixed now, but for a few weeks in July, Lucire’s online-edition hits took a dive. Not in the main part of the website, but the news section. Luckily, because of an abundance of feature stories in the main part of the website during July, thanks to Julia Chu’s design work, […]

Google Chrome blocked us over a GIF

04.07.2012/05.06

Thank goodness for mates. Decent people out there prepared to tell me when I screw up—you know who you are—and when Google screws up. One friend had the decency to tell me yesterday that he could not access Lucire’s online edition. This is what he saw: It’s not the first time Google has […]

A farewell to Sir Paul Callaghan, and the next step for our innovators

24.03.2012/05.03

When I attended Sir Paul Callaghan’s talk at the Wellington Town Hall last September, I felt vindicated. Here was a man who was much better qualiﬁed than me to talk about economic development, effectively endorsing the policies I ran on in 2010. But not being political, he was a great deal more persuasive. Since then, […]

Autocade turns four, and it’s about to get its two millionth page view

10.03.2012/02.45

It’s hard to believe but Autocade is four years old this month. In fact, its actual birthday was some time last week. It’s been busy at work, so Autocade has received a little less attention in the last 12 months, though things were buoyed when Keith Adams (of AROnline) added a whole bunch of […]

Russian mass media believe it’s the Putin right that counts

06.03.2012/10.54

World Economic Forum, licensed under Creative Commons Vladimir Putin has won the ﬁrst round in the presidential elections in Russia by such a margin that he won’t need to face rivals for a second-round run-off. But the one place where he scored less than half of the vote was in Moskva, the most educated and […]

Nicholas Ind’s Meaning at Work: ﬁnding fulﬁlment in the early 2010s

06.02.2012/11.03

Two of my friends have books coming out. I’ll discuss one for now, as it’s been a long long weekend. The ﬁrst is my Medinge Group colleague Nicholas Ind’s Meaning at Work, which has now made it on to Amazon, and is getting wider distribution. You can get an idea of what Meaning […]

The guide for New Zealand businesses looking at China

03.01.2012/10.54

I bumped into Chris Wilson, who edited NZT&E’s excellent periodical Bright some years ago, recently. Sadly, the government pulled the plug on Bright, though as I understand it, some colleagues at In Business wound up taking over the mailing list. But it’s wonderful to see the high standards of excellence that Chris was known […]

Finishing off 2011 with the most fun radio interview I have ever done

31.12.2011/09.29

Photo by Xavier Collin/Snapstar Live Friday morning’s interview with Sonia Sly on Kiwi Summer was the most fun I have ever had on radio. Radio New Zealand National was the most fair and balanced medium I dealt with when running for Mayor of Wellington in 2010, and I was glad that Sonia thought of […]

Source4Style launches today, seeking to revolutionize the business of fashion

19.12.2011/10.19

[Cross-posted] Summer Rayne Oakes and Benita Singh’s Cartier award-winning venture, Source4Style, which helps designers source sustainable fabric through a well designed, transparent website, launches its second version today. Lucire has the low-down in the main part of the site, and this story forms part of some of our next 2012 print and other non-web editions. […]

I remember one of IMI’s scare campaigns

29.10.2011/08.09

I came across a fascinating article in Wired’s online edition about two scammers who promote “scareware”: those inferior antivirus programs designed to rid users of fake viruses they tell you about through fake pop-ups. And once you install them, you get a virus. This paragraph struck a chord: But those troubles didn’t do much […]