This week my company, FRESCO, released a new website. Issues.co.nz is live but not yet formally launched while we load in more content – I expect a launch within the next week.

 The website has been an idea of mine that has simmered for years as we witnessed the explosion in current affairs online. But while many newspaper websites leave control with the media, and ‘citizen publishing’ is diluted with a mass of fragmented blog or information sites, Issues.co.nz brings much of the fragmentation together and, in doing so, gives ordinary people a chance to be heard.

 The Issues.co.nz website is completely unique in New Zealand. In a nutshell, we’re setting up a platform where anyone has the chance to run their own website on a burning issue and run it within a large online community.

 Take a sneak look at www.issues.co.nz and let me know what you think?