Our story of New Zealand’s Internet has caught up with the calendar and we find ourselves in late 2010 – with no content as yet. That’s because the year’s not over and much can happen in the next few weeks. But more importantly, it’s because we want you to help us write the 2010 chapter…

Before the year draws to a close and you start getting distracted by Christmas parties, put your thinking caps on and nominate what you think have been the highlight events, people, websites or Internet launches of the year. Give us your insights too.

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Folks, we find ourselves reaching our final chapter of the story for now. We hear again from Helen & Chelfyn Baxter talking about using Internet tools to produce offline media and David ten Have talking about distributed manufacturing mediated by the Internet.

With new voxpoppers:

Duncan Blair – Digital Strategist, &some
Matthew Holloway – Trustee, Creative Freedom Foundation

Appearing to talk about creativity and copyright and the Internet.

Don’t forget to leave your feedback – and come back tomorrow for an announcement about the 2010 chapter!

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2008 sees the rise of our understanding of our power as Internet users, and a term for it – “social media”. We hear from Jade Tang & Eddy Helm and Luke Nicholas talking about this. As well as new voxpopper:

Anthony Gardiner – Social Media Integration Consultant, Skinny Marketing

and Barri Dullabh a Teacher from Discovery School talking about how kid’s raised around all this technology can benefit from being connected.

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2007 is the year we started to really embrace social network sites. Warts and all… Hear Mauricio talk about people getting fired for leaking company secrets on message boards and John Eyles talk about teaching Digital Natives. As well as meeting a voxpop newcomer:

Nathalie Whitaker – Founder, Givealittle

Talk doing Good online.

Feedback welcome as always!

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Welcome to the story of New Zealand’s Internet for 2006. A year in which we take our love for TV and other media online. We meet two new voxpoppers today:

Jade Tang – Art Director & Connector, yMedia
Eddy Helm – Managing Director, yMedia

As well as hearing from Helen & Chelfyn Baxter, Brendan Smyth and Brenda Leeuwenberg again.

If you’re interested to know more about the project you can hear Thomas speak on episode 3 of the excellent Discourse podcast.

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It is 2005 in the story today and the second coming of the Internet has arrived with web 2.0.

We have four new voxpoppers today:

Lani Treur – Team Co-ordinator, Meridian Energy
Geoff Ross – Director, The Bakery
Mike Riversdale – Director, Google Apps, WaveAdept
Richard MacManus – Founder & CEO, ReadWriteWeb

Richard and Mike talk about web 2.0 and the cloud. Geoff talks about 42 Below’s viral videos and Lani about taking business services online.

Have a read and a watch and then submit your favourite New Zealand web 2.0 sites or other contributions!

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To welcome you back after the long weekend we have the story of New Zealand’s Internet in 2004. The year we got serious and started getting our errands done online. When we weren’t distracted reading blogs…

Mauricio Freitas – Blogger, Geekzone
Glenn Williams – Host of the Radio Wammo Show, Kiwi FMc

We hear from 3 voxpoppers, including new face Mauricio, talking about blogging and Glenn talking about using the Internet for remote radio shows.

As always, your feedback and contributions are very welcome.

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In the 2003 chapter we hear about the rise of professional web design. Starting with the $1 million domain name… and then talking to 3 new voxpoppers:

Matt Vickers – Business Analyst / Developer
David ten Have – CEO,Ponoko
Geoff Munn – Developer Manager, SilverStripe

As well as Jon from Trade Me and Peter Harrison from the NZ Open Source Society.

Have a good Labour Day New Zealand

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Today we hear about a sticky situation one company got itself into when taking on early bloggers. As well as the dangers of blogging. And the allure of online shopping.

Three brand new voxpop faces today:

Nigel Hammersley – Managing Partner, VML
Andrew Hamilton – CEO, The ICEHOUSE Ltd
Jessica Williams – Writer and television producer, author of 50 Facts That Should Change The World

Go check out what they have to say – and add your own recollections!

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Happy long weekend New Zealand and welcome to the 2001 chapter of your story of New Zealand.

Today we hear from our 30th voxpopper, with 4 new faces to the project:

Jacob Briars – Vodka Professor, 42 Below
William Cass – National Sales Manager, Tuatara Brewery
Mike Roan – Manager Wholesale Markets, Meridian Energy
Michael Gregg – Digital Ads Guy, @michaelgregg

Today we focus on the burgeoning use of the Internet for business-to-business services – as well as remembering our very own dotcom parties and looking at an outbreak of Internet voyeurism.

Don’t forget to suggest your favourite sites for mention in our new websites section at the base of the latest chapters.
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