Over the past month or so, we have greatly increased the amount of content from the University of Auckland Library. DigitalNZ now includes access to digital items from 11 of their digital collections. The wide range of formats and content make them great additions to DigitalNZ.
- Rob Inskeep
Culture is a balanced blend of human psychology, attitudes, actions, and beliefs that combined create either pleasure or pain, serious momentum or miserable stagnation. A strong culture flourishes with a clear set of values and norms that actively guide the way a company operates. Employees are actively and passionately engaged in the business, operating from a sense of confidence and empowerment rather than navigating their days through miserably extensive procedures and mind-numbing bureaucracy.
- Rob Inskeep
Here's an interesting pie chart that can be quite disturbing to a new artist or band (can't remember where I found it). It's not entirely accurate, but it's enough to give you the idea that working at McDonalds might be a better career choice than the music business.
- Rob Inskeep
RT @timoreilly: Nice to see Obama stand up for students and good teachers rather than teacher's unions. #SOTU
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"What SOPA and PIPA are at face value and what they could end up enabling" EXCELLENT use of the chalkboard to illustrate the explanation.
- Rob Inskeep
In the history book of bad ideas, the concept of giving corporations the right to censor the internet has to rank among the worst ever. That's what the impact of two bills recently introduced in the US would be if they, or anything like them, were enacted into law, and it's causing a righteous ruckus among free speech activists around the world.
- Rob Inskeep
How would SOPA work? What do you need to know about the bill heading into 2012? We take a deep dive into everything you need to know below.
- Rob Inskeep
An interesting look at how the industry (that is trying to buy legislation supporting their dictatorial view of how entertainment should be created, distributed and consumed) have people within it who are, or have been, blissfully unaware of the draconian measures their employers are attempting to foist upon the rest of the planet.
- Rob Inskeep