Tag Archives: webstock

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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April 20, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, New Zealand 2 Comments

Conferences – Not a Zero Sum Game

By Ben Kepes

It’s been a big year of conferences for me so far – both domestic and international. It’s been great fun – busy but fun. I’ve been fortunate to have covered two New Zealand events for Idealog magazine. Webstock in Wellington and Web09 in Auckland. Webstock is a seasoned event, polished

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.