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February 18, 2013 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Clown Computing–Entertaining and Attention Grabbing but a Flawed Thesis

By Ben Kepes

Recently I attended Webstock, a conference in Wellington, New Zealand that is well known for bringing together technology, design and general brain stimulation. It was a great event, with some awesome speakers but one presentation, by Jason Scott, part of an activist preservationist group Archive Team, kind of stuck in

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November 19, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Post Earthquake, Christchurch Landowners Run Roughshod Over by the Crown

By Ben Kepes

When the blueprint for the future Christchurch was announced with great fanfare by the Minister of all things ground shaking, Gerry Brownlee back in August, there was much made of the fact that there were a handful of key projects that were seen as of strategic importance in the rebuild

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October 31, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Something is Beautiful in the Heart of Christchurch

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a fair amount of time eviscerating the response to the Christchurch earthquakes from he Council, CERA and Civil Defence. Some might think that my outlook is purely negative. I wanted to redress this balance by posting about my visit to the ReStart project today. For those unaware, the

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October 20, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Something is Rotten in the State of Christchurch–Part Four

By Ben Kepes

I first reported on occurrences of theft by demolition companies working in Christchurch back in March. At that time I thought (or at least hoped) that it was an isolated incident but subsequent events have shown that demolition companies are engaged in widespread activities that do nothing but line their

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October 16, 2011 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Something is Rotten in the State of Christchurch–Part Three

By Ben Kepes

I decided that, in response to a wholly obfuscated and some might say downright dodgy approach towards dealing with demolition related issues in Christchurch, that my correspondence about the matter would buck his trend and be held in the public arena. This is especially so after receiving an invoice for

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October 9, 2011 Posted in Business 15 Comments

Something Is Rotten in the State of Christchurch–Part Two

By Ben Kepes

In March I wrote a post that garnered pretty widespread attention telling a tale of what appeared to be at the time exceptionally underhanded actions by a number of companies involved in emergency demolition work subsequent to the February 22nd earthquake. Suffice it to say I alleged that contractors involved

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April 3, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

TEDxEqCHCH – Let Us Re-Imagine

By Ben Kepes

Yeah OK, the acronym is getting unwieldy. But bear with me here. Readers will recall my ongoing tales of tribulation at the hand of natural forces and bureaucratic nightmares resulting from those forces. Well I’m stoked to see that next month sees the holding of an event that seems a

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March 26, 2011 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Property Rights, Due Process and Justice. Let’s Fight this Case!

By Ben Kepes

My post yesterday about our demolition experience in Christchurch certainly touched a nerve – the comments, Facebook likes, retweets et al have shown just how important this is to people. I read last night another article which showed just how bad things ar e for some people. It seems that

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March 25, 2011 Posted in Business 79 Comments

Something is Rotten in the State of Christchurch

By Ben Kepes

I thought it time to write another update in my infrequent Christchurch Earthquake category (see more here). This one is unfortunately a tale of woe. Last week, while I was in the US, my business partner sent me an email to tell me that our building in Lichfield Street was

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October 12, 2009 Posted in Business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Strategy, General, The Cloud 5 Comments

Canterbury Cloud Camp Unconference

By Ben Kepes

At the recent Auckland CloudCamp, a few of us got talking and thinking about what a tight network of SaaS/Cloud businesses could achieve – kind of a “united we stand, divided we fall” approach. Down here in Canterbury we have a surprising number of players in this field – all

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