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  • Dawdling to the pavilion

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    5 min read

    Here’s an overdue update on the career situation – in May 2015 I left New Zealand Cricket for Fonterra. I wanted to wrap up the two years before it all disappears in a fond, summery haze. Working in cricket was a bit of a dream come true – I thoroughly enjoyed being part of it and…

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  • How I live-tweet cricket for the BLACKCAPS

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    4 min read

    As a twitter nerd, and a cricket nerd, when I got a job at New Zealand Cricket, getting to live-tweet BLACKCAPS matches was a bit of a nerd explosion. I’ve been at it a couple of years now, and have covered our matches from the office, my couch and cricket grounds around New Zealand and…

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  • (Sports) Geeking out

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    2 min read

    You can listen to me on Sean Callahan’s Sports Geek podcast, talking blackcaps.co.nz, our social media stuff and wot’s coming up for the world cup. Sean’s based in Melbourne and works with a heap of teams and leagues with their digital and social efforts, as well as producing a cottage industry in podcasts. When I…

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  • blackcaps.co.nz coverage

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    1 min read

    Quick run down on moving blackcaps.co.nz to Azure ahead of the Cricket World Cup from the Dom Post. ‘Keen to get into that’. Ahem.

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  • Hot Irish Times sidebar action

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    1 min read

    In which I try to sum up the entire culture of New Zealand in two paras.

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  • Peak nerd

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    1 min read

    Making custom retro-look mute and volume labels for the good old Apple Extended II (which now lives at work) that I remapped the function keys for is probably a sign of… something.  

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  • Live n social on the radio

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    1 min read

    Social media impresario Vaughn Davis was extremely kind to invite me on his radio show for a ramble through the BLACKCAPS, Telecom, sportreview.net.nz‘s ten year anniversary and the mobile apps I use on the bog (Instapaper was my #1). Radio Live Sunday Social – listen to the whole nine yards here. Thanks Vaughn!

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  • Brought knife to gun fight

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    1 min read

       Thanks to Oliver from CricHQ for the snap.  

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  • Actions, not words

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    4 min read

    Some quick thoughts on the Telecom -> Spark thing. Telecom’s biggest challenge has always been doing less. Like any incumbent telco, it has no end of systems, processes, technology and products that keep getting in the way of having a product line up that’s simple and complete while still innovating at the pace demanded by…

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  • You don’t really need a Wolfram Alpha strategy

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    3 min read

    There’s a school of thought that says whenever two chaps in a garage get a 0.3 beta of a social network out the door, digital folk everywhere should drop everything and get on it. This is bollocks. Your valuable and limited time, energy and resource is best spent on Twitter. Or Facebook. Or the platform(s)…

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