Yesterday I had an email from Genesis Energy titled “Check you are on the best plan”. This is a good idea and should be welcomed. But the good idea is so poorly implemented it has actually made me less happy with Genesis as my energy provider. I...

Updated You can read a gazillion other opinions of the worthiness or otherwise of Apple’s iPad device elsewhere. Here I’m concerned only with its credentials as the eBook reader that will lead the great unwashed away from print towards a brighter,...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter makes an interesting point on her blog at The Harvard Business Review when she writes about a successful legal action brought by Mattel, owner of the Barbie brand against MGA Entertainment Inc which owns Bratz. Former Mattel...

Scanning and stitching pages and stories from old broadsheet newspapers has long been a problem. I’ve been a newspaper journalist for most of the past 30 years. My story portfolio is largely a pile of yellowing paper, that is now fraying around the...

From the New Zealand Herald January 26, 2010: At the peak of the power cut, more than 50,000 homes in the city were without power and traffic ground to a halt, rail services were delayed and some businesses were forced to close. And Aucklanders had...