Archive >> October 2009

Looking at Labour

Former New Zealand Rhodes Scholar and Vice Chancellor of Waikato University Bryan Gould writes in the Guardian that “barring a miracle, and miracles seem likely to be in short…

Hopes on Bahrain

If New Zealand’s All Whites beat Bahrain on October 10 they will compete in their first World Cup since 1982 in Spain. Dunedin-born defender Andrew Boyens, 26, who currently…

#119: Digitising Our Culture

Edge Message #119 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM

Pictured: Richard O’Brien, Melanie…

Breathe Through the Nose

It was a cold, swine-flu ridden winter when I last wrote to you, and now is the time of fresh morning asparagus, drooping rich coloured kowhai, full throated tui,…

Digital industrialists

David ten Have, the 34-year-old CEO of Wellington company Ponoko features on the cover of Inc. Magazine, as part of an article called ‘The Future of Manufacturing’. “Ponoko did…

Secret Chic

Air New Zealand Fashion Week held in late September in Auckland, is reviewed by The New York Times’ blog ‘The Moment’, which deemed designer Kate Sylvester “the country’s best-kept…