Consensus, consensus, consensus

Consensus, consensus, consensus

Sometimes I find myself just going ‘wow’, when I think about how much the world has changed in the past six months and how it continues to alter and shift as we all negotiate our way through the social, cultural and economic impacts of the Covid-19...
Why does Facebook get a free ride?

Why does Facebook get a free ride?

For a while Facebook has described itself as a social network but in truth and reality it is barely that at all. It is a marketplace, an advertising platform, and as we have discovered in the past few years – a purveyor and seller of personal information, a tax...
Easily manipulated and poorly monitored . . .

Easily manipulated and poorly monitored . . .

A recent story in the New Zealand Herald highlighted the huge pitfalls in the US owned search engine monopoly’s review practices. Google reviews are not monitored, they are not screened, and they are difficult to remove if manipulated. This can lead to huge harm...
We cannot go backwards

We cannot go backwards

While we may always have known, and were told that Covid-19 may well come back after a 24 day spell of no cases, the past few weeks has brought us all back down to earth, with a crashing thump. More than that, the trust that many Kiwis have had in our institutions has...