

Adman knows what it’s like to be branded a plagiarist—and why we're so quick to believe that a ‘fresh’ idea is actually a cheap rip-off. Why, then, do so many ideas emerge at the same time from different places?
Books: The Long Tail Bestselling business writer Tom Peters has been watching some small Kiwi businesses.


When Keith Alexander realised a childhood dream and reinvented the trampoline, he also created a global business and relaxed thousands of nervous parents. By Amanda Cropp


Talk about turning the corner: a major illness turned hairdresser Rebecca Herring into an artist and then a fashion designer. By Amanda Cropp.
Books A fun-but-serious, useful-but-free gift from the most productive man on the planet.
Creative Metrics Innovation in New Zealand is on the decline. It's time to ask: do we really value new ideas?
Meet German designer Katrin Sonnleitner, soon to visit New Zealand for Semi-Permanent 2010.
Last week, 380 chief executives and leaders of New Zealand's leading R&D firms assmebled to compare notes and listen to legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. The TechNZ Innovation Forum invited Idealog to capture the key note speakers, grab interviews with the stars and report on the vibe. First up, Sean Simpson, founder of Lanzatech—one of the few companies around the world that has secured investment from Vinod Khosla. Lanzatech extracts gases from smokestacks and turns it into biofuel. We ask Sean how he got Vinod to listen.
The Grill You know the television scene is getting weird when TVNZ launches a new channel on Sky’s pay platform. But Eric Kearley, the broadcaster’s new head of digital, reckons it heralds a new age of co-operation in New Zealand media. Others say TVNZ is already irrelevant. So is Kearley just rearranging the deckchairs?
Books Is the record of the Finn brothers to date a “massive injustice”? Author Jeff Apter says yes; the brothers say nothing.
Imagine you’ve had a massive fight with the taxman over how much you owe, then the Prime Minister specially picks you to come up with a plan to re-engineer the department. That’s the sort of gift Peter Jackson was handed when John Key asked him to report on the New Zealand Film Commission.


The sneaker. It’s a cheap canvas shoe with a cheap rubber sole—or at least it used to be.

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