18th February 2018 – Testing out Carl’s Alpacka Gnu Pack raft, click picture to access gallery…
Pack Raft – Alpacka Gnu
Month: February 2018
TradeMe – Not necessarily the cheapest place
First, here is something that I mildly found amusing…
As an aside, I don’t know about their business model anymore. I can’t say that buying from (or should it be through) them is necessarily the cheapest. While there are still bargains to be had, I have noticed that private individual sellers simply wishing to moved pre-loved goods on are getting fewer and fewer as years go by as they continue to get displaced on the listings pages by International Sellers or otherwise local drop-shippers, who often flood TradeMe with listings at asking prices higher than NZ RRP (Recommended Retail Pricing)… Continue reading “TradeMe – Not necessarily the cheapest place”
Ngati Whatua Orakei Waitangi
6th February 2018 – Waitangi Festivities at Okahu Bay at the Orakei Domain…
Hosted by Ngati Whatua Orakei in conjunction with Auckland Council Continue reading “Ngati Whatua Orakei Waitangi”
Branding Effects + Roadblocks to Web Decentralization
(This post is a sort of a lead in from my previous post about Meetup.com)
Anecdotally, it seems the majority of groups which have left the Meetup.com platform have moved their group to Facebook. Branding I’ve come to realize is at play here with Facebook’s seemingly relentless march to take control as much of the web as humanely possible.
While I’ve found many people announce that they “Hate” Facebook saying it’s crap, to them, it’s a familiar sort of ‘Crap’, people subconsciously lean to Familiar because Familiar is “Safe”. Another words… “Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don’t”.
Like ‘McDonalds’ is to fast food, People may criticize their food as ‘plastic’, but yet keep coming back to it because there is some psychological guarantee that it will be the same ‘Plastic’ food they they know of. Take this, if you landed in a new country, would you try some unfamiliar food outlet selling unfamiliar food or head straight towards the Big illuminated ‘M’? This is something that came to my mind when I was setting up a Test Instance of Oxwall and is something us Decentralization / Open web advocates are going to need to consider.
Taitua Arboretum
Pictures from a short stop at Taitua Arboretum. Click Picture to view Gallery…
