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In Mod we trust
Yesterday, Reddit continued it’s dramatic month of what can only be described in a public relations context, as a cluster fuck. After the sudden and mysterious firing of Reddit Inc. emploee Victoria...
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Reddit – Something IS going on here
Something rather big happened to the internet the other day. Reddit, longheld as a bastion of online discussion (and despite what you may have heard, formerly also a bastion of open slather free...
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#RumiPlaylist
Recently I got a playlist thing happening on Spotify. And it was a fun time. Now I’m running a regular update. Each time it’ll be a new theme and I want as many suggestions for songs as you can throw...
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Excellent customer service from Spark
We’re always very quick to complain when customer service is shit (see Fone,Voda).But today I had excellent customer service, so I thought I’d share it, because not enough people praise companies when...
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Rumiplaylist: the awfulness
So in a fit of collaboration, I thought I’d ask my friends, family, Twitter followers and Facebook pals to name me one song that I would add to a Spotify playlist. It would be an experiment in musical...
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Cyberbullying: by Loren Heaphy
The Ruminator’s Loren Heaphy (LOZ!) is a finalist in the Westpac Millennial Women of Influence competition. And we think she deserves it. Because she’s both a millennial AND influential (and secretly...
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Uber the review
By Steve W August 28th was the official launch day for Uber in Wellington. For those who aren’t aware of what Uber is, it’s billed as “Everone’s Private Driver”. It’s a taxi service of sorts, but as...
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Think Before You Click or: Why I Haven’t Seen JLaw’s Boobs
These are not the nudes you were looking for The internet has exploded in the last 72 hours because naked photos and videos of over 100 people, several of them high profile Hollywood actresses and...
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A custodial investor: Rod and me
Rod Drury is an entrepreneur. Entrepreneur is a funny old word. It gets bandied around a lot. “Oh if only New Zealand had more…entrepreneurs”. I’m not even sure what it really means. Rod is though. I...
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Online bullying: won’t somebody think of the children?
Get your pitchforks, light up those torches and pack your bags kids cause apparently there’s a bandwagon to jump on and it’s called Condemning Online Bullying. TVNZ’s video montage today of hosts and...
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The terrible, terrible future of consumer tech
We, the consumer class, are about to enter the most self-absorbed period yet. Which is really saying something considering the late 1990s era of reality TV where ‘everyone can to be famous and should...
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Sexy times at CES
The largest nerd fest in the world, the Consumer Electronics Expo has wrapped in Vegas for 2014 and Tim Batt has chosen four key popular tech areas and the stand out product/service from each category...
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Bring it back: Technology
I was born in 1979, during the decline of technology. I’m not saying today’s technology is dead, but it bores me to tears. Every time Apple calls a meeting with the press, I pray a hologram of Steve...
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GCSB redux
John Campbell didn’t distinguish himself last week when he finally got the chance to interview the Prime Minister about the GCSB Bill. It’s a common situation in modern life: you become interested in...
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Pulp Friction
I suspect it was actually the novelisation of a Benji film. The very first book I ever read was about a little dog that got lost and had an adventure. At one stage it befriended a raccoon and learned...
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Shaming: it’s a bit crap for everyone
It’s no surprise to anyone that Twitter and Facebook are filled with vile, racist, homophobic, bigoted awfulness. Because humanity is filled with vile, racist, homophobic bigots. You’ll see in the...
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It’s my privacy and I’ll cry if I want to
The status quo: We’ve heard a lot in the news lately about spying. Edward Snowden is a name that will be familiar to a lot of people. He’s the former NSA contractor who “leaked” a heap of documents...
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The Console Wars – Sony’s Three Hit Combo That Just Knocked Out Xbox
I played Paper Boy on this machine, and I was happy. You bloody kids with your X-Stations. A big fat South African taking on a fresh-faced 21 year old wasn’t the only showdown this week. At a little...
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All you wanted to know about PRISM but were afraid to ask because someone...
YES WE CAN spy on your shit UPDATE 11 June 2013 2pm: Since the publishing of this post Edward Snowden, the PRISM whistleblower has been reported “missing” in Hong Kong by the BBC. - – - Much has been...
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The Last of Us (p)review
I had the chance to have a 30 minute play through of the soon-to-be-blockbuster title The Last of Us for Playstation 3 ahead of its world-wide release and I was blown away. The title is a PS3 exclusive...
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