Was the Collate page always the natural environment for editing your target lists? Originally we thought not, that users would naturally gravitate back to their original groups in Media/Select Media, and amend them there.

Small but interesting changes last month, with a new deputy editor at the Listener while two Australian mags are extending their reach.

Additions, changes, and appointments around MediaNZonline in September 2009.

Additions, changes, and appointments around MediaNZonline in August 2009.

In the magazine sector we welcome Koha Magazine, published by Fomana Capital. Flossie Media Group, publishers of Nzgirl, launched six new websites in July.

Aggressive antispyware
Unexpected change to the emailing environment this week caused something of a crisis for the management and techsupport of this enterprise.

The much-loved inaugural MediaNZonline interactive database — V1 — has reached the end of its natural life. So while an obit might be slightly over the top, we can say it was something of a milestone for the company, moving the database out of downloading to the various unstable Windows operating environments over to the clear air of the internet. 'Clunky' they said about it, 'slow', said others. But its supporters are steadfast and there will be some disappointment. But.....

MediaNZonline March bulletin
Two important enhancements are now in place for MediaNZonline Version 2, both to do with getting more use, better value, out of whatever we call the electronic version of a 'paper trail'.

It's a myth that oil can easily be replaced by renewable energies, that we are running out of fresh water, that cyanide produced by gold mining is poisoning the environment, says environmental consultant Alison Adams-Smith.

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It's a myth that oil can easily be replaced by renewable energies, that we are running out of fresh water, that cyanide produced by gold mining is poisoning the environment, says environmental consultant Alison Adams-Smith.

It's a myth that oil can easily be replaced by renewable energies, that we are running out of fresh water, that cyanide produced by gold mining is poisoning the environment, says environmental consultant Alison Adams-Smith.

Good restaurants and where to find them is a topic which tends to exercise the minds of most of the chattering classes. Here's an insider story for media people from both sides of the divide.

Freelance Market, now being run by former Herald section editor Steve Hart, is launching a new monthly print publication aimed at freelancers and those working at the sharp end of the print media.

Fairfax Media is creating New Zealand’s largest specialist
business and IT publishing unit, bringing flagship weekly business title The Independent and the Fairfax Business Media titles together.

New Zealand's a bicultural society with two official languages and both should be treated with sensitivity, I think.

The words and pictures business just got more complicated.

Quite a few enhancements to the MediaOnline suite of databases to talk about. And 'suite' is a reality with the launch of MediaOceaniaOnline on its own website and the imminent prospect of launching MediaOZonline through our relationship with Media Monitors.

IABC Wellington get-together to discuss ethics, journalism and the law, and the controversial Electoral Finance Act.

Academic esoterica
To the recent ANZCA (Australian & New Zealand Communication Association) conference Power and Place at Wellington's Duxton Hotel to be exposed to an undiluted concentration of media studies academics.

We overspilled the Belgian Café in Ponsonby for the first one, and had to set up shop in Bolliwood, luckily just down Ponsonby Road in Auckland. And that set the scene for the V2 workshops we ran all over the country.

Our new MediaNZonlineV2 program has been the focus of activity at MediaPeople over recent weeks. Techsupport — Digital Fusion, Christchurch — has laboured these many months to create a marketable interactive online media database.

So we conducted busy workshops to launch the product. Was it all over the country? I'd better specify: Auckland (twice) Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown and Dunedin. Anyone feeling deprived in Taranaki, Manawatu or the West Coast has only got to ask.