Tagged: Wellington

Heritage Costs - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Oct 08, 2013 •

• complete nonsense,
• earthquake,
• Heritage,
• idiocy,
• New Zealand,
• Regulation,
• Wellington

We need to fix how we handle heritage buildings in New Zealand. The current rules let Heritage Boards designate buildings and effectively make them untouchable. The burden of providing the heritage amenity falls on the owner of the building. Where the... Read More

The heart of the matter, and a matter of the heart, is design by intention - Stick

Peter Kerr • Oct 01, 2013 •

• cloud computing,
• contract writer,
• entrepreneur,
• innovation,
• IT,
• Sciblogs,
• user experience,
• UX Design Day,
• Wellington,
• writer for hire

Seeing as on the design side of things I’m more in the ‘I know when it works, I just don’t know how to do it properly’ camp…here’s a plug to the UX Design Day. UX stands for User Experience – … Continue reading → … Read More

Non-success gets a deserved recognition - Stick

Peter Kerr • Sep 24, 2013 •

• awards,
• China,
• contract writer,
• Creative HQ,
• education,
• entrepreneur,
• Lightning Lab,
• Patent,
• private equity,
• Prototyping,
• Sciblogs,
• Science policy,
• Sustainability,
• value-added food. processed food,
• Wellington

A thumbs up to Lightning Lab and Wellington’s Creative HQ for celebrating non-success. That, quite deliberately, is different from describing the five of the nine companies which went through LL’s 12 week accelerator programme as failures. Earlier in the year, … Continue reading → … Read More

Information failures and risky buildings [updated] - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Sep 17, 2013 •

• earthquake,
• market failure,
• New Zealand,
• Regulation,
• Wellington

There's a trade-off when government agencies disclose known risks. Take, for example, AIDS disclosure laws. Some US states require that partners or others likely to be at risk from a patient testing positive for HIV;  others fear that th... Read More

Primary industry mobile tech forum draws the digerati - Stick

Peter Kerr • Aug 20, 2013 •

• cloud computing,
• contract writer,
• development,
• digerati,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• IT,
• Market validation,
• Mobile Tech Summit,
• Processed food,
• Prototyping,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• Sustainability,
• Wellington,
• writer for hire

Numbers tell a story on their own. And the fact that over 220 attendees ponyed up at the Mobile Tech Summit 2013 in Wellington on August 7 & 8 underscores the message that our natural resources aren’t as old-hat as … Continue reading → … Read More

72 hours of Wellington earthquakes - Videos

Peter Griffin • Jul 22, 2013 •

• earthquakes,
• Wellington

Sciblogs Editor’s picks: VIDEO: 72 hours of Wellington earthquakes Shaken Not Stirred: Could Wellington be next? The Tuatara Genome: How many species? Ariadne: The awakening lions – Africa in 85 years … Read More

Cats indoors Karori… killing-fields Kelburn - Politecol

- Wayne Linklater • May 29, 2013 •

• #cats-to-go,
• citizen science,
• environment and ecology,
• gran experiment,
• Highbury,
• Karori,
• Kelburn,
• Northland,
• Wellington

  I caught a mouse in my compost bin, but it jumped over me to freedom. Rats live there now. The holes dug through my rotting household waste are large. Five neighbourhood cats visit my backyard. They take turns arriving at first light for reconnaissance of my … Read More

Key’s causing of capital introspection is probably good for us - Stick

Peter Kerr • May 28, 2013 •

• development,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• IT,
• John Key,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• TIN 100,
• university,
• Wellington

As much as Prime Minister John Key has attempted to water down his ‘Wellington is dying’ aside, at the very least it has provided a good opportunity for some capital introspection. One thing Key might be doing is confusing busyness … Continue reading → … Read More

Let’s get the taxes right - The Dismal Science

Bill Kaye-Blake • Mar 14, 2013 •

• government,
• tax,
• unserious,
• Wellington

The ‘fury’ at the suggestion of applying fringe benefit taxes (FBT) to carparks is utterly misplaced. The only proof I need of this is that ‘Unionists and business groups have joined forces in a rare alliance to lash out at the new tax’. What better indication that this new tax is being applied even-handedly? It’s about time, [...] … Read More

Of bikes and buses - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Oct 16, 2012 •

• bus,
• costs,
• culture,
• General,
• motorbike,
• public transport,
• Wellington

Bill’s post today on Wellington buses, and why he chooses to drive his car instead, is a timely one. While his post looks primarily at the time he saves by not using public transport, I thought I’d focus on something… Read more › … Read More