Web Week

Lange at Oxford - (Public Address) A new section by commentator Russell Brown features the text of David Lange's conquering speech from the 1985 Oxford Union debate. The televised debate, though it hasn't been shown in full in a while, makes good viewing. But reading the speech allows you to focus more on the points Lange was trying to make, not how cleverly he made them.

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Papers on show - (Press Display) It's one thing to read the newspaper online, but it's another to look at how the pages of the print edition were made up and presented. Pressdisplay allows you to do this for 200-odd papers by displaying pages from a number of international papers daily. You can have the front page of the Herald delivered to you every morning in full-colour, PDF quality. A subscription leads you to other services and the free service excludes some popular papers.

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Bridge to Japan - (Japan) The portal is part of the business empire of Tokyo-based Kiwi entrepreneur Terrie Lloyd. The site is a bridge between foreigners looking to work and invest in Japan and Japanese business people seeking foreign investment and labour.

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Mobile lowdow - (Commerce Commission) If you caught the good news this week that cellphone pricing is likely to be regulated down by the Commerce Commission, you may be interested in the details of how the major telcos charge you for mobile calls.