Yearly Archives: 2006

nzherald top stories – week of Dec 25

These were the most-read stories this week on nzherald:

1. Leaping dolphin leaves woman seriously injured
2. Festive day ends in violent death
3. $350,000 retirement dream on the rocks
4. Dolphin caused mad panic on board, says boyfriend
5. Give yourself up, police advise husband

Source: New Zealand Herald

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Top automotive sites

Chart courtesy Nielsen//NetRatings

The latest chart from Nielsen//NetRatings highlights the NZ-based sites in the Automotive category with the highest number of unique visitors last week.

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Time’s person of the year is You

Time Magazine

In case anyone needed proof that the mainstream media are finally taking the web seriously, Time magazine has declared its 2006 Person of the Year to be You, the internet user.

As described by Time‘s Lev Grossman, the web has come to represent “community and collaboration on a scale never seen before”.

The new Web is … a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.

While Grossman acknowledges that the web is capable of spreading stupidity as well as wisdom, he sees the deeper implications of a worldwide web that enables and encourages anyone to share what they know.

It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

For more of Time’s coverage, click here.

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nzherald top stories – week of Dec 11

These were the most-read stories this week on nzherald:

1. Teenager pledges to drink and drive again
2. Shark attacks 10-year-old boy surfing in Raglan
3. Therapist labelled sexual predator
4. Giant cranes complete journey from China
5. Parents of missing prostitute remember ‘wonderful girl’

Source: New Zealand Herald

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Top travel sites

Chart courtesy Nielsen//NetRatings

The latest chart from Nielsen//NetRatings highlights the ten NZ-based sites in the Travel category with the highest number of unique visitors last week.

Three mapping sites have made the top ten (Wises, Smaps, and Yellow Pages). Online maps just make so much sense, and the ones on Smaps are especially attractive and easy to use.

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Online journalism eligible for Pulitzers

Interactive graphics, streaming video, and news in database form will all be acceptable as part of entries for the prestigious Pulitzer prizes in journalism.

Last year for the first time, newspaper-style content (text and pictures) that appeared online could be submitted for a Pulitzer.

But now the awards will truly embrace styles of presentation that transcend the printed newspaper, although in most cases they still must be accompanied by printed material.

The changes take affect with the 2007 awards for journalism published this year.

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Ferrit becomes shopping site [yawn]

Telecom’s ferrit.co.nz “window shopping” site is now actually a “shopping” site, as Ulrika Hedquist reports at computerworld.co.nz:

Shoppers can now choose how they want to purchase the goods: at the retailer’s store, through the retailer’s website or online at Ferrit.

When an order has been placed, customers can track the delivery status of their goods. When the credit card bill arrives, it will be split out by retailer…

So the only advantage of shopping at ferrit seems to be that you can have one bill for several retailers – if those retailers have chosen to deal with ferrit.

Sorry, still not enough to get me interested. Especially after having to endure those mindless adverts.

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