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Site background
Theory and operation of NZEDGE

Bio of co-founder Brian Sweeney
Bio of co-founder Kevin Roberts
Interview: Brian Sweeney discusses NZEDGE
Research: NZ community and cultural identity in cyberspace
      



Feature articles on hot NZ topics:

Brain Exchange: Kiwi Diaspora
2002 Global Newzmakers
Moko: Te Maori ki Te Ao
NZ Visual Language:
- open letter and forum with 50 messages.
Re-entry : Coming Home? Tell us your re-entry story

- forum with over 50 messages
Transmit: South Pacific identity exploration
    
Contemporary Kiwi achievers:
Tim Bevan: film producer

Mark Burry: fusion building architect
John Clarke: trans Tas-man satirist
Terry Collins: green chemist
Matthew During: gene revolutionary
Giovanni Intra: Chinatown art dealer
Peter Jackson: made in New Zealand film director
Lucy Lawless: warrior princess
Margaret Moth: war-eye photojournalist
Andrew Niccol: skeptic showman film director 
Rebecca Taylor: femme and edgy fashion designer
Rob Waddell: V-12 Olympic rower
Steve Williams: Tiger Woods' caddy
        
       



New Zealanders who have expanded human knowledge & experience:

Alexander Aitken: mathematician
Frances Alda: international diva
Rewi Alley: 'gung ho' reformer in China
William Atack: first referee to use a whistle
Jean Batten: 1930s aviator
John Britten: revolutionary motorcycle designer
Godfrey Bowen: world's fastest shearer 
Robert Burchfield: dictionary don
Brydone & Davidson: frozen meat exporters
Robert Dickie: inventor of vending machine
Ernest Godward: inventor & engineer
Harold Gillies: pioneer plastic surgeon
Edmund Hillary: conqueror of Everest
Te Tangi Hiroa/Peter Buck: anthropologist, Maori leader
William Hudson: Snowy Mountains hydro-electric engineer
Arthur Lydiard: jogging pioneer, Olympic supercoach
Alan MacDiarmid: chemist, Nobel prize 2001
Bruce McLaren: Formula 1 driver & engineer
Katherine Mansfield: short story moderniser
Tex Morton: star and singer-songwriter
Colin Murdoch: inventor of the disposable syringe
Edward Nathan: founder of Glaxo
Sir Keith Park: Battle of Britain defender
Richard Pearce: first flyer
William Pickering: pioneering rocket scientist
Ernest Rutherford: revolutionary atomic physicist, Nobel Prize 1908
Kate Sheppard: suffrage leader
Beatrice Tinsley: cosmologist
Charles Upham: VC & Bar, WWII
Nancy Wake: heroine of WWII
Maurice Wilkins: biophysicist, Nobel Prize 1962
Harold Williams: linguist extraordinaire
Allan Wilson: revolutionary evolutionist
        
       


Image galleries
Index of image galleries

Landscapes: the topography of Aotearoa
Textures: sensational homage
People: our faces
Signs & Symbols: the edge DNA expressed
Architecture: NZ's built landscape
WorldEdge: world interpretations of the edge metaphor
Maps: NZ falls off the edge
Silver Ferns: symbol of the NZ Edge
Heroes: visual parthenon of edge achievers
Clouds: our sky
Donna: Wellington meets Milan
 
CoversEdge: NZ on international magazine covers
Ads: advertisements for nzedge.com 
            
        



NZ and NZers as featured in the world's online media, from The Guardian to the New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald to Salon, Vogue and more ...

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Arts Archive
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Lord of the Rings 
Media 
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Theatre
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Medicine and Health 
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Society Archive
Births & Deaths 
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Education 
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Sharp NZ products for sale online
T-shirts: Gung Ho, Edge, NYNZ and Black Classic
Kai: sustenance from home for off-island Kiwis
Music: Aotearoa sounds from Finn, Dobbyn, Runga, to Kog and Fu
Books: fiction, football, food, fun, history
Art: edgy contemporary works for discerning investors
GolfCross: oval ball revolution?
Photography: Aim High: outstanding portraits of golden Kiwis; limited edition
Postcards: 16 postcards from the edge
Pounamu pendants: symbolic greenstone taonga
Mountain Bike: Lahar Softail XC3.0, custom-made in carbon fibre

         
      



Feedback from the NZEDGE community and site updates 1999-2002
Index of feedback and site updates

First feedback from NZEDGE subscribers: July 1999
Recent feedback from NZEDGE subscribers: September 2002
About you: NZEDGER's from Abu Dhubai to Zurich
First NZEDGE memo from Kevin Roberts
NZEDGE memo from Brian Sweeney #55
Gallery of photographs used in the site updates
        
     



New Zealand clubs, groups and friendship societies worldwide

NZ Embassies: primary contact for Kiwis abroad
Australia (Western)
Austria
Canada
China
Denmark
France
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Ireland
Japan
Malaysia 
Netherlands 
New Zealand
Singapore
Switzerland
Thailand
United Kingdom: 15 organisations for New Zealanders
United States: 10 organisations with Kiwi connection

Sites with the NZEDGE attitude
AJ Hackett: bungy jumping
All Blacks: facts, fans and fixtures
Arts & Letters Daily: web best
Arts Calendar: what's on in New Zealand arts
Creative New Zealand: links to NZ creative community
Cuisine Magazine: culinary culture
Dictionary of NZ Biography
The Edge: thoughts of the global cyber elite
Kea: global NZ business connection
The Knowledge Wave Trust
Lord of the Rings
Lucire, global fashion magazine
Ministry of Research, Science and Technology
Alexander Turnbull National Library
No8Wire: Kiwi ingenuity
No8Wired: Kevin Kelly, founding editor of "Wired"
NZ Connection: govt expat links
NZ Festival: biennial cultural fiesta
NZ Film Archive
NZ Herald: NZ's newspaper
Organics New Zealand: clean and green
Political Policy Online
Project Crimson: saving pohutukawa and rata
Scoop: news raw and fast
Sounds A-Z: all NZ music
Southern Traverse: extreme adventure racing
Te Tomokanga: Maori culture
Te Kete Ipurangi: education portal
TechNZ: technological Innovation in NZ
Terranature: edge ecology preservation
Toast Life: celebrating our food and wine in the UK

UNITECH's NZ Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Unlimited: business magazine with spunk
        
       



By Kevin Roberts and Brian Sweeney

Index of speeches

Edge Of Knowledge
Speech to Knowledge Wave 2003, Auckland 
February 19, 2003

Global Edge
Speech to Investment New Zealand Regatta 2003, Auckland February 10, 2003

Golden Weather
(Long Bay College Prizegiving, 2001)

Nothing is impossible 
(Waikato Management School, 2001)

Vision for New Zealand
(Resource Management Law Association Conference, 2000)

Inspiration
(Compaq Great Discoveries Educational Conference, 2000)

Risk, Risk Anything!
(Graeme Bringans Property Education Trust, 1999)

The New Zealand Edge
(NZ MBA Association, 1999)

No one Ever Told Us We Couldn't eh!
(NZ Secondary Principals' Conference, 1999)

New Zealand on the Edge
(NZ Tourism Industry Association Conference, 1998; with audio & video)

            



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