• I’m not convinced about the ‘newsletters are the new blogs’ chat. But, at the risk of sounding out of touch and longing for the Olden Days, I definitely support anything that operates in a web browser instead of an app. Claiming the internet back from walled gardens – Facebook, mainly – is good. If everyone created their…

  • Services

    Digital strategy Who are your people, what do they want and how do you make it easy for them to get it? What’s a retweet anyway, and how do I treat it if it bites me? Is Snapchat still going or what? If you’re not clear on your story and how to tell it online, you…

  • Thought with some distance, it was the right time to wrap up two years at Fonterra. Previously: Leaving Telecom / Dawdling to the pavilion. My two years at Fonterra was a real game of two halves. The first year was when the milk price was down, the farmers were hurting and getting things out the…

  • A couple of years ago while messing around with the kids at the Hairy McLary park on Tauranga Waterfront, we saw a stingray lazily cruising along the rocks at low tide. He did several laps and didn’t seem to be in a hurry to get anywhere. Now we live here, and every time I park…

  • Moving to Tauranga, we now live an easy ten minutes or so on the bike from the office. I wanted a flat pedal bike that’s more upright than the road bike, and that wouldn’t be out of place on the light gravel paths around here. Luckily I had this – my father’s old Batavus Criterium.…

  • This was on the return from a trip to Astrolabe Reef to scatter my uncle’s ashes. It was an emotional and fascinating day. He was a mad keen diver from the days where you wore a rugby jersey rather than a wet suit and saying goodbye in such a beautiful spot with perfect seas and…

  • Hack pack

    Couple of notes on music apps: Garageband is really fun and powerful app – I use it on my iPad to record my electric guitar using the Tascam IXZ dongle and headphones, so as not to wake the kids. Here’s me butchering George Harrison’s Something in Garageband: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/282326855″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /] The backing guitar…

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  • Sport Review

    In early 2018, I started writing Sport Review, a weekly newsletter – it goes out every Friday morning at 8am, with my writing, links to the weeks’ best NZ sport content and loads more.  I’ve somehow been at the sport blogging / newsletter carry-on for 20 years. Some of the best bits:   Previously, sportreview.net.nz was…

  • Media

    Loose collection of occasional work and comment follows. Chipping in for Kane Williamson as NZ’s greatest ever batsman on The Spinoff [March 2018] Talking BLACKCAPS and cricket world cup 2015 on the Sports Geek podcast [February 2015] Selling NZ to the world in the Irish Times [January 2015] Talking BLACKCAPS, Telecom, sportreview.net.nz and other stuff on Radio…