DIAL-UP POLICIES IN A BROADBAND WORLD

Wellington entrepreneur Rod Drury links to some interesting comments by National Party leader Jon Key on the focus he promises to place on the issue of improving the country's telecommunications infrastructure. The complete text of Key's speech, in which he refers to Labour running "dial-up policies in a broadband world" is available on his website here.

National's IT and communications policy has been woefully inadequate to date and the party has failed to seriously engage in the discussion around telecoms regulation and development of the IT industry at a policy level. Hopefully Key's comments will be followed up with some progressive policies. Telecommunications could prove to be an election issue next year, so some strong policy are needed by Key and National.

THAT WAS NEW ZEALAND

My Herald story about the remastered This Is New Zealand documentary that Park Road Post did some great work on. The doco itself is an interesting document of a period in New Zealand's history that seems , thankfully, very distant. We've come a long way since Hugh Macdonald picked up his three camera rig and travelled the country...

Also, some photos from the 1969 production of the documentary courtesy of Archives New Zealand.
The striking effect created by Macdoanld using three cameras positioned at slightly varied angles.
One of the spectacular aerial scenes in This Is New Zealand. The documentary is most memorable for its aerial photography of the Southern Alps.