Elections 2010 / November 2013
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Business etiquette 101: don’t threaten lawsuits against a customer proposing an idea which you later adopt
- Jack Yan
- Interesting to spot this link. When I started Autocade in 2008, I approached Haymarket, letting them know I was a Classic and Sportscar reader since it began in the 1980s, and I was inspired by the Sedgwick guides that it ran then. Autocade was to be an online cyclopædia that would use a brief format, […]
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A tribute to Lewis Collins: the top five reasons he was awesome
- Jack Yan
- A small tribute to actor Lewis Collins on his passing earlier this week (originally published in Lucire Men). 1. The cars The Triumph Dolomite Sprint Lewis Collins’ character, William Andrew Philip Bodie (he was a ‘regal-looking baby’) had in The Professionals had more power than Doyle’s TR7. And his Capris were far cooler. So cool […]
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Facebook and Instagram have not only jumped the shark, but Richie Cunningham has left home
- Jack Yan
- Social networking is bound to change in 2014 as some of the main services out there have jumped the shark. You may say they jumped them ages ago, but the lack of innovation inside Facebook and its subsidiaries is beginning to hurt them. After having campaigned for six months for the Wellington mayoralty, […]
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Mayor details where board fees to go
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- Celia Wade-Brown has detailed how and where money councillors used to gain from external appointments is going to be redirected following changes made last term. Via the Council: Wellington’s smart […]
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City Watch #16
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- Here’s our sixteenth round up of recent news and events around Wellington. Remember to let us know if we’ve missed anything! Wellington’s new deputy mayor is talking big and promising […]
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Morrison: Campaigning was tiring, council not very constructive, STV killed turnout, happy to be gone
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- Failed Wellington mayoral candidate and ex-Onslow-Western ward councillor John Morrison talked to The Wellingtonian editor and old cricket bro Joseph Romanos in what seems to be his first post-election loss […]
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Former Eastern Ward candidate fined for drug possession
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- Former Eastern Ward candidate John Coleman has been fined for minor drug possession.
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Mayor pips Coughlan to Airport board
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- Council have confirmed the Mayor will be its representative on Wellington International Airport’s board. Katie Chapman reports: The mayor won’t be able to help decide how much ratepayers’ money is […]
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Morrison lands new call centre job
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- Failed Wellington mayoral candidate and ex-Onslow-Western ward councillor John Morrison has landed a new job with the Australian call centre he helped lure to Wellington. Morrison is looking forward to leveraging […]
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Committee to salvage botched logo
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- Some sense reported by Kerry McBride: The new logo chosen for Wellington will be kept to tourism branding, while a committee searches for a better alternative. The logo, which features […]
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Absolutely Positively Wellington’s new logo: where’s the plus side?
- Jack Yan
- The below was written on the 4th inst., the morning of the release of Absolutely Positively Wellington’s “plus sign” logo, and ran on Scoop, where I am told it is one of the most liked for the Wellington section. As it is to do with branding, I have republished it in full here. (The parody […]
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Explaining one of Dynamo’s card tricks, possibly
- Jack Yan
- An interesting video from our friends at ITN, featuring magician Dynamo, who releases the third season of his Magician Impossible series on DVD. Other than the sleight of hand, I’m guessing that there are two jacks with his signature, because he can duplicate that. The journalist is never given her own card to bite: […]
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Let’s improve on the Wellington logo
- Jack Yan
- The city’s new logo—it is not a rebrand if the underlying tenets are the same—has not met with much support. The next question must be: all right, if we’re all so smart, can we do better? Ian Apperley and I think we can. Ian approached me yesterday morning to ask whether we should […]
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Absolutely Positively Jesus
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- Positively Wellington Tourism and the Wellington City Council have relaunched the Absolutely Positively Wellington marketing campaign, originally launched in 1991. Tourism chief executive David Perks said the relaunch was an […]
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No PA?!? Reality bites on Council
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- We understand newbie Lambton ward councillor, Mark Peck, is finding life a bit different at Council… namely in the way it is lacking some of the perks he was used […]
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Rest in peace, Leonie
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- Former Eastern ward councillor, Leonie Gill has sadly passed away after a recent battle with illness. She was 65 and served Wellington for 15 years on Council. A couple of […]
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