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• Adult industry

  2009-06-15 08:48:48 // Chris Tobias // Idealog #21: workshop
  Asleep on the job? Perhaps that’s a sign of a productive workplace

• Bigger in Texas

  2009-06-08 08:49:55 // Andrea Price // Idealog #21: workshop
  Kiwi acts get a big reception at SXSW. If only they had a bigger venue

• Don’t fear the reaper

  2009-10-06 16:31:11 // Chris Tobias // Idealog #23: celsias
  John Key is doing his best to scythe sustainability from the government dictionary—and maybe he’s right. The S-word has baggage. It's about disagreement, good and bad science, frugality and fear. Chris Tobias suggests how to move beyond the arguments.

• Free thinking

  2009-10-02 11:23:14 // Matt Cooney // Idealog #23: features
  We pay for the Herald, but not for its website; we’ll give money to Sky while we let the state-owned TVNZ struggle. As business thinkers proclaim the age of the free and Rupert Murdoch heads a fightback, Matt Cooney asks if we really know the value of a dollar. Plus keep on giving.

• Hail the Twitterer-in-Chief

  2009-04-06 11:35:14 // David MacGregor // Idealog #20: workshop
  Learning from the methods that unlocked the White House

• Is fair trade a fad?

  2008-05-16 10:35:57 // Jehan Casinader // Idealog #15: features
  New Zealand has the fastest-growing fair trade market in the world, but as corporates like Starbucks catch the Fair Trade bandwagon, savvy advocates of ethical consumerism can see a day when the goodwill is gone. By Jehan Casinader

• Long tail politics

  2009-01-14 08:44:15 // Jason Smith // Idealog #19: workshop
  Shining a light on a creeping trend

• Mind the bollocks

  2009-09-25 08:57:33 // Mike Booker // Idealog #23: celsias
  Johnny Rotten once mocked the Queen; today he saves his sneer for New Zealand butter. Our key export markets are increasingly in the grip of environmental and social activism, led by a virtuous circle of consumers and supermarkets. Some Kiwi exporters are on to this rapidly growing and mutating phenomenon. Others, Mike Booker discovers, haven’t a clue.

• More true rings

  2009-01-06 13:08:59 // Idealog #19: now
  The 40th anniversary re-release of iconic, experimental jewellery designs

• Northern exposure

  2010-04-01 07:43:05 // Ben Corban & Dean Poole // Idealog #26: features
  As Yogi Berra once said, “You can observe a lot by watching.” Dean Poole and Ben Corban, co-founders of Alt Group, would agree. On a European jaunt to pick up a coveted grand prix prize at the red dot design awards, they kept a detailed travelogue. Here are their top five observations and predictions for the year ahead.

• Play hard

  2008-02-20 09:12:38 // Jason Smith // Idealog #13: workshop
  Kiwi game developers are getting bigger—by creating smaller thrills

• Profit motif

  2008-02-13 12:27:49 // Vincent Heeringa // Idealog #13: workshop
  A new kind of philanthropy says it’s wrong to lose money

• Reunited

  2008-12-19 14:28:20 // Mark Roach // Idealog #19: workshop
  And it feels so good

• Some percentage pure

  2009-11-13 09:57:54 // Matt Cooney // The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
  

• Spending on stuff we like

  2009-11-11 16:24:16 // Anthony Byett // Idealog #24: workshop
  Kiwis still aren’t spending much—but at least we’re having more fun with our money.

• Studies of the super-rich

  2007-12-12 14:53:07 // David MacGregor // Idealog #13: workshop
  Explaining Oprah, Bill Gates and Richard Branson

• Taking Webstock

  2009-12-11 09:58:45 // Mike Brown & Natasha Lampard // Idealog #25: interact
  Webstock 2010 is nearly upon us. Webstock’s senior VPs reflect on past glories—and those yet to come.

• The big questions

  2009-11-04 11:46:04 // Su Yin Khoo // Idealog #24: workshop
  The sequel to Freakonomics does not disappoint.

• The Conversation

  2009-08-07 12:59:25 // James Hurman // Idealog #22: features
  Nobody believes business anymore. So who’s in control of your brand? It’s all of us. Here’s how the truth has been democratised, distributed and Google-optimised. It’s goodbye to the mass message and welcome to The Conversation.

• The plunge

  2009-07-28 10:26:21 // Matt Cooney // The Idealog Blog
  Barry Colman invited a firestorm when he announced that the NBR would stop publishing all its content online for free, and instead would save some of its material for paid subscribers. A week later, how’s he doing?

• The rise of the smartocracy

  2009-03-27 11:29:58 // Jamie Cullinane // Idealog #21: features
  Of all the differences between people, one factor has a greater bearing on income than any other: intelligence. And IQ scores show that each generation is getting smarter. Jamie Cullinane examines the rise of the smartocracy

• Tribal counsel

  2007-07-18 23:00:00 // Gena Tuffery // Idealog #10: features
  Two Wellingtonians have written a guide to the dreams, desires and dislikes of our fellow Kiwis, using well-known cities, towns and suburbs to identify our ‘tribes’. Gena Tuffery reckons she learned a lot reading 8 Tribes (but then she would say that—she’s apparently a Grey Lynn gal)

• Walk the walk

  2009-09-11 10:02:11 // Matt Suddain // Idealog #23: features
  It’s 30 years since the release of the Sony Walkman. Matt Suddain tracks the evolution of portable music—and the complaints of those who wish it would go away.

• Work with Gen C

  2009-03-16 10:36:40 // Dianne Gardiner, Keith Macky & Stewart Forsyth // Idealog #20: workshop
  Surely there’s never been a generation quite so headstrong, self-centred, clever and so demanding?

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